Asia & Americas

Russia announced on Sunday that it has reached an agreement with the United States to cooperate and coordinate military operations in Syria. A Russian military statement on Sunday said...

Millions of people are marking Refugee Week which starts today, in the hope of highlighting the bleak reality of life as a refugee. There are more than 65 million...

It seems that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set upon a course that will even challenge the brutality of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile. The infamous impunity constructed...

In 2016 up to 150,000 refugees will pass through the West African country of Niger and cross its northern border into Libya or Algeria to catch a boat and...

President Barack Obama was uncharacteristically agitated as he unleashed an attack on Donald Trump in his speech following the murderous atrocity in Orlando. He denounced the presumptive Republican presidential...

Fifty-one State Department officials have signed an internal memo calling for the U.S. to take military action against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in a bid to force regime change...

Russia's intervention in Syria at the end of September last year was not far from the Putin-Obama understandings; it was related to the war on terrorism. The UN and...

NATO does not have plans to deploy combat forces in Libya, only to help Libyan efforts to spread stability and fight Daesh, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said. "I...

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Wednesday demanded the construction of safe zones in Syria to be paid for by Gulf states. "You see this great migration, which...

The move by the controversial governor of New York to blacklist organisations that support the global anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has been met with anger from pro-Palestine...

Iran's imports from the United States increased by 20 per cent in the first two months of the current fiscal year, which began on 21 March. Iran's semi-official news...

Weakness is an important tool used to generate the sympathy of others and get their help. This is not only used by individuals but countries as well. There are...

The recent attack in Orlando, Florida, claimed by the criminal group Daesh is the deadliest by this group in the USA. Official reports revealed that over 100 innocent people...

Following last week's announcement that WEOG had nominated Israel to chair the UN General Assembly's Sixth Committee, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied...

The latest annual report from a Bahrain office tasked with addressing torture and mistreatment of detainees indicates that authorities have made little progress in holding police and security forces...

Kuwait has asked the public prosecutor to open an investigation into a scrapped deal with US firm Dow Chemical that resulted in a $2.2 billion fine, a local newspaper...

CIA Chief John Brennan said on Sunday that he expects 28 classified pages of a US congressional report on the 11 September 2001 attacks to be published, absolving Saudi...

During the Iraq invasion and war, its aftermath and the subsequent protests against the US-installed government, Fallujah and its residents have paid a heavy price. As the Iraqi government...

What does "security" mean in the context of Israel's occupation of Palestine? According to a plethora of literature produced by Israeli and US think tanks – including recent reports...

The US expressed its hope, yesterday, that Israel would not punish innocent Palestinians collectively after the shooting carried out by two Palestinians in Tel Aviv. The attack resulted in...

Facebook and Twitter have recently deleted thousands of posts, pages and accounts in response to demands from the Israeli ministry of justice, Quds Press reported on Wednesday. "We succeeded...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to let Israeli aircrafts fly freely in Syrian and Lebanese skies, Arab48.com reported on Tuesday. The Israeli Minister...

A commercial office has been opened for the Native American Cherokee tribe in Ramallah, Quds Press reported the Palestinian Authority announcing yesterday. In a statement, the PA foreign ministry...

In their defense, the Israelis seem to have figured out the whole thing and opted out. But the hapless Palestinian leadership, along with their Arab League partners, joined by...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan plans to travel to the United States this week to attend the public memorial service for boxing legend Muhammad Ali on Friday, sources in...

Conflict is escalating in Egypt's financial market after asset management company Beltone Financial Holding, owned by billionaire Naguib Sawiris, signed an agreement to purchase a 51 per cent stake...

The Armenian issue is being used to blackmail Turkey around the world, Turkish president has said. Addressing a press conference in Istanbul Saturday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said...

Boxing legend Mohammed Ali is dead. Known universally as "The Greatest", his loss will be marked by millions of people of faith and no faith around the world, but...

Muhammad Ali, one of the most influential sports figures in the 20th century, has passed at the age of 74 in Phoenix, U.S., a family spokesman has confirmed to media....

Iran tops the US' list of states that sponsor terror, while Daesh is the greatest threat internationally, the State Department revealed in its annual report on terrorism. Iran is...

The Yazidi community in Iraq has paid Daesh some $45 million in ransoms to release girls and women abducted by the militant group in 2014 alone, United Nations Secretary-General...

Turkish security services found American and Swedish anti-tank weapons with PKK fighters in the Nusaybin district, the Anadolu Agency reported Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım saying yesterday. Yildirim said...