Asia & Americas

The impact of the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign in Europe is forcing a shift towards China, according to a leading Israeli businessman. Édouard Cukierman, the Paris-born...

The United States has failed to protect its allies in Syria. Russia’s airstrikes, which aim to empower the embattled dictator Bashar Al-Assad, have killed any hope for a political...

The civil war which has ravaged Syria since 2011 is at a turning point. On Wednesday, Russian fighter jets launched the first airstrikes of what announces itself as a...

Would-be US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called on Friday for the establishment of safe passage and no-fly zones in Syria as an attempt to solve the refugee crisis, Alamatonline.com...

Washington has confirmed that as scheduled in October it will be withdrawing American Patriot missiles deployed in Turkey in the summer of 2013 to protect it from potential rockets...

During the final days of this year's hajj pilgrimage in the holy city of Makkah last month, two large waves of pilgrims converged on a narrow road. The crowding...

The Malaysian prime minister today condemned Israel for what he called its "systematic dehumanisation" of Palestinians, saying the situation risked becoming a "catastrophe". Addressing the United Nations General Assembly,...

US Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter has said the United States is concerned over Russia’s “contradictory position” in Syria and that the Kremlin’s decision to conduct airstrikes at the...

US Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States is willing to welcome Russian military intervention in Syria as long as it is directed against the Daesh and...

Egyptian President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi is “disappointment with White House policies”, former Israeli Ambassador to Egypt Zvi Mazel wrote in an article yesterday. In an article published in the...

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday that conflicts and instability in Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan and South Sudan have uprooted at least 4.5 million children. “The world...

Barack Obama insisted on Tuesday that defeating Daesh will only be possible after Syria’s President Bashar Al-Assad steps down. The US president made his comments during a speech at...

Palestinian human rights advocates in the United States are routinely targeted for intimidation, harassment, and attacks on their freedom of speech, according to two new reports out today. ‘The...

The Palestinian flag is to be raised for the first time at the UN headquarters in New York later today in what is being described as a the “most...

Indonesia has accused the Saudi authorities of blocking efforts made by its diplomats to attain information on those who died or were injured in the deadly Hajj stampede last...

The real danger facing the United States today is Russia’s military intervention in Syria, retired US General David Petraeus warned. The former commanding general of US forces in both...

A UN report issued by the World Bank revealed on Monday that the decline in aid from donor countries, last year’s war in the Gaza Strip and the freeze...

Secretary of the Executive Committee of the PLO, Saeb Erekat, said he is disappointed at US President Barack Obama’s ignorance of the Palestinian cause following the latter’s speech before...

The US Secretary of State has said that he hopes to see a “united, secular Syria that can be at peace and stable again without foreign troops,” Anadolu reported...

It is election season in Canada. On 19 October Canadians will cast their votes to select representatives for the federal Parliament in Ottawa. According to recent polling it’s going...

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu met Friday with the US Muslim boy who was arrested after a teacher mistook his homemade clock for a bomb. Davutoglu welcomed Ahmed Mohamed,...

Said proposed peace by coexistence, self-determination and equality between Palestinians and Israelis and believed “real peace” would come with a binational Israeli-Palestinian state.

The US will cooperate with Russia in Syria if Moscow agrees to work on a political solution in the war-torn country and simultaneously fight against Daesh, Defence Secretary Ash...

The US Muslim boy arrested after a teacher mistook his homemade clock for a bomb will meet with Turkey’s prime minister on Friday, the boy's father has said. Ahmed...

The United States issued its condolences for a “heartbreaking” stampede near Makkah that claimed the lives of more than 717 pilgrims Thursday. National Security Council spokesman Ned Price said...

The US Department of Defense announced Wednesday the killing of Abu Bakr Al-Turkmani, a senior Daesh leader in Iraq, as former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) David...

In a rare move, Benjamin Netanyahu recently took two generals with him on his visit to Russia: Chief of General Staff of the Israel Defence Forces Gadi Eizenkot and...

US Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday dismissed claims that Russia is arming itself to fight in Syria, saying that “the Russian weapons in Latakia airport on the Syrian...

McDonald’s is leading a group of companies to provide assistance to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) which seeks to secure food aid for millions of Syrian refugees. Instead...

Information leaked by the US embassy in Baghdad has helped to foil two assassination attempts on Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi, a senior Iraqi official has revealed. According to Al-Sharq...

The Egyptian military has forcibly evicted thousands of families in the Sinai Peninsula in violation of international law, Human Rights Watch (HRW) asserted in a report today. In its...

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has reportedly rejected the appointment of Israeli settler Dani Dayan as the Israeli ambassador to her country, media reports said yesterday. Israeli Ynet news reports...