Asia & Americas

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...

At least 20,000 children in Fallujah are at risk due to the ongoing fighting between the Iraqi army and its allies and Daesh, the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund...

The leader of France's Jewish Defence League was on the run in Israel on Wednesday after receiving a prison sentence for violent gang attacks in Paris, according to a...

Egypt has become embroiled in a dispute with African diplomats after they accused an Egyptian official of referring to "dogs and slaves" in remarks about sub-Saharan Africa at a...

One would have expected from young democracies some empathy towards the Syrian uprising. However, South American governments have shown indifference at best, if not explicit support for Syrian President...

The head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi has said his country will deliver surplus heavy water to the United States if Washington makes full payment...

With the assent of Israel's hard-right new defence minister Avigdor Lieberman, the man he replaced warned of the direction Israeli political life is now taking. "Extremist and dangerous forces...

Palestinians are constantly accused of being the real obstacle to peace in the Middle East but a new initiative by a group of America's most influential Jews may just...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemned on Saturday what he called the United States' "support" for Syrian Kurdish groups the PYD and YPG. "I condemn US support for the PYD...

The US spends about $2.7 million a day on munitions for the war against Daesh.

Since he stepped down as Britain's Prime Minister in 2007, Tony Blair has made a number of public interventions in support of military action in the Middle East. The...

US commandos are working with Syrian fighters in an attempt to push closer to Daesh's stronghold in Raqqa, the New York Times has reported in a piece written by...

The US-led international coalition against Daesh said yesterday that 4,000 fighters from Sunni tribes, which are allied to the Iraqi government, will take part in the battle to regain...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu slammed American soldiers for wearing the insignia of the YPG, which Turkey classes a terrorist organisation, on their official uniforms during their operations against...

Typically, the US has expressed reservations about the Israeli coalition government but has reserved judgment. Rather than flaunt knowledge and direct approval of Israel's increasingly violent policies, the US...

When the King of Morocco addressed Gulf leaders in Riyadh recently and denounced foreign powers' double standards in the region, the US State Department's annual human rights report was...

Obama’s allies in the region, explicitly Turkey, repeatedly offered him options which avoided a full-scale offensive. People are striving for feasible solutions such as a no-fly zone for refugees.

Troops from eight countries have completed air attack training, in which live ammunition was used, in the Turkish city of Izmir as part of the EFES 2016 military exercises....

The United States does not have the right to criticise Morocco's human rights record, the country's  Minister of Justice and Liberties, Mustapha Ramid, said, adding that his government is...

Last Sunday, meetings to renew economic dialogue between the US and the Palestinian Authority were held in Ramallah – a move that will be hailed as a progressive initiative...

Merely being in the company of hundreds of Palestinian journalists and other media professionals from all over the world has been an uplifting experience. For many years, Palestinian media...

The legitimate Yemeni government delegation returned, with serious Qatari mediation, to the talks in Kuwait between the bilateral alliance (Saleh and the Houthis) and the delegation headed by Foreign...

Former Mossad chief Efraim Halevy called on Sunday for Israel to speak to Hamas saying that Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman could be the one to do so. Speaking at...

Washington announced yesterday that it killed Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour in a drone attack in Pakistan on Saturday, claims denied by the Taliban, Al Jazeera reported. Speaking on...

US President Barack Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar Al-Abadi yesterday agreed on the importance of tightening security in Baghdad's Green Zone, where government institutions and foreign embassies are...

The United Nations envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed yesterday called on the Yemeni parties to take advantage of the "historic opportunity" they find themselves in and resume...

Russian warplanes yesterday launched airstrikes against a key opposition supply route near the city of Aleppo for the first time since a truce was signed at the end of...

Head of the US Central Command and top military commander for Middle East, General Joseph Votel, made a secret visit to Syria on Saturday to look at efforts to...

U.S. President Barack Obama spoke with Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar Al-Abadi over the phone Saturday to reaffirm his country's support for defeating Daesh, according to the White House. "The...