Yemeni Prime Minister Ahmed Obeid Bin Daghr yesterday reiterated that his government would accept a peace deal which passes through internationally recognised channels, the Anadolu Agency reported. Bin Daghr’s remarks...

American actress Lindsay Lohan has invited US President-elect Donald Trump to join her on a tour of Syria and Turkey. In a tweet she wrote: “Please let me help...

A senior Israeli settler leader has warmly welcomed Donald Trump’s presidential election victory, in an open letter published by alt-right website Brietbart News. Yossi Dagan, head of the so-called...

Israeli Defence Minster Avigdor Lieberman has urged the government to seek an understanding with a Donald Trump administration whereby Israel freezes construction in isolated West Bank settlements, in exchange...

A senior Hamas official has blamed what he calls the “US-Israel veto” on the movement’s participation in government for hindering Palestinian reconciliation. Talks between Fatah and Hamas have come...

Oil prices eased in volatile trading on Wednesday as the market gave more weight to a bigger-than-expected US crude inventory build than Russia’s comments about a possible meeting with...

Canadian military trainers in Iraq have clashed several dozen times with Daesh militants over the last month as a campaign against the group intensifies, defence officials said yesterday. On three...

Iraqi children play on the street in the Zahra neighbourhood of Mosul as the operation to liberate Mosul from Daesh continues.

President-elect Donald Trump is very unlikely to restrict imports of crude oil from Saudi Arabia despite threats to do so issued during the election campaign. Trump is first and...

Under a cloud of black smoke, a group of around a dozen children wearing flimsy sandals have gathered to play. Oil wells around the Iraqi town of Qayyara are...

The US Senate will vote to renew sanctions on Iran for 10 years before adjourning next month, the chamber’s Republican leader said on Wednesday, sending the bill to the...

The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to renew a bill that sanctions Iran and a separate piece of legislation that imposes new ones against supporters of the regime of Syrian...

The UK Foreign Office will discuss the case of a Bahraini politician, who was arrested for criticising Prince Charles’ visit to the Gulf, with the Bahraini government. Last week...

Yemeni Foreign Minister Abdulmalik Al-Mekhlafi said yesterday that the remarks made by US Secretary of State John Kerry on a ceasefire and the formation of a national unity government...

United States will collapse in less than 20 years and President-elect Donald Trump will speed up the process, Commander of Iran’s Basij forces, Mohammad Reza Naqdi, said. “According to...

The United States Congress yesterday overwhelmingly voted to slap sanctions on the Syrian regime of President Bashar Al-Assad, as well as their Iranian backers, receiving support from both sides...

Many articles addressing the reasons behind the election of US President-elect Donald Trump have been negative due to his rude and offensive campaign statements against Muslims in America, other...

The Lebanese army yesterday denied its military vehicles appeared in a Hezbollah military parade in the Syrian town of Qasir, near the border with Lebanon. “Some media outlets have...

Australia has reached a resettlement deal with the United States for refugees being held in Papua New Guinea and Nauru after attempting to reach Australia by boat, Prime Minister...

French President Francois Hollande today urged US President-elect Donald Trump to respect a global agreement to limit climate change, saying the deal was irreversible and inaction on global warming...

Pakistan is due to deport teachers working in schools which are affiliated with the Gulen movement ahead of a visit by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan which begins tomorrow....

The US State Department has condemned a proposed new law advanced by Israeli ministers on Sunday that would retroactively legalise settlement outposts on privately-owned Palestinian land. During yesterday press...

Iran and China have signed a defence and joint military cooperation agreement. Iranian Defence Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan signed the agreement along with his Chinese counterpart, General Chang...

Turkish warplanes struck 15 targets in the Al-Bab area of northern Syria yesterday in an operation with Syrian opposition forces to drive Daesh out of the border region, the...

Donald Trump’s foreign policy platform may have been incoherent on most issues during the election campaign, but he was clear on the nuclear deal with Iran, known as the...

Donald Trump’s election as the next US president presents Israel with a unique opportunity to recast its Middle East policies, far-right Israeli MK Naftali Bennett said today. Leader of...

Supporters of Daesh have said that Trump’s rhetoric against Muslims will boost their recruitment efforts, especially for disaffected youth in the West. In an interview with Reuters, Abu Omar...

John Kerry arrived in the Sultanate of Oman in the early hours of Monday morning to discuss the Yemeni crisis and efforts to reach a peaceful settlement of the...

Iran warned that it would operate its nuclear plants in 24 hours if American President-elect Donald Trump scraped the nuclear deal reached with the P5+1 countries, Iran’s Tasnim news...

Western foreign policy towards the Gulf States has been much debated recently. Over the last few months of the Obama administration, American foreign policy has moved considerably further away...

An Israeli ministerial committee on Sunday defied Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and voted to support a bill to allow settlers in the occupied West Bank to remain in homes...

Iraqi soldiers fighting just north of Mosul, within sight of city neighbourhoods, said on Sunday they were ready to tighten the noose around Daesh militants waging a brutal defence...