Asia & Americas

The US yesterday called on the Saudi authorities to reconsider a "brutal" sentence against jailed liberal blogger, Raif Badawi. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said, during the daily press...

In the four years since the Syrian civil war began in 2011, millions of Syrians have been forced to flee their homes, causing one of the biggest refugee crises...

Jordan's King Abdullah II has issued a decree appointing army commander Mashal Al-Zaben and intelligence chief Faisal Shoubaki as advisers to the monarch alongside their current positions. According to...

The words of US President Barack Obama during a radio interview two days before the end of 2014 were interesting. He said that the main factor in Russia's ability...

France warned Palestinians against escalating a diplomatic "battle" with Israel after Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas said he would resubmit the Palestinian statehood bid to the UNSC, local...

The US yesterday opposed Israel's decision to freeze the transfer of Palestinian tax revenues saying the move will only "increase tensions" between the two sides, the Anadolu Agency reported....

Syria has complained to the United Nations that US Senator John McCain, former French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and former US diplomat Peter Galbraith entered the country without visas,...

The Iraqi defence ministry said yesterday that it has received the first batch of US Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles in order to strengthen the Iraqi army in...

2015 looks like it's going to be a challenging year for Israel. While, with American and Australian support – and the help of rather cowardly abstentions by, among others,...

Iranian Foreign Ministry rejects reports that Tehran and Washington have agreed on shipping Iranian uranium to Russia Iran's foreign ministry denied on Saturday media reports that claim Tehran and...

Israeli settlers on Friday hurled rocks at a convoy carrying U.S. consulate personnel near the West Bank settlement outpost of Adei Ad, which led to a confrontation between U.S....

Nearly 500 police personnel were killed and around 1,500 others injured in clashes with the Islamic State (ISIS) in the Anbar province of Iraq in 2014, Brigadier Jasim Al-Dulaimi,...

The US-Arab alliance is one of the strangest and most interesting in the world, perhaps even in history. It is certainly the most one-sided, whereby America takes everything from...

The Grand Mufti of Australia yesterday criticised Canberra's decision to vote against the Palestinian-Arab draft resolution to end the occupation at the UN Security Council. In a statement, Ibrahim...

PLO Executive Committee member and chief negotiator Saeb Erekat is reported to have delivered papers signed by President Mahmoud Abbas to join the International Criminal Court to the representative...

Some 26,500 Jews immigrated to Israel in 2014, the highest number in a decade, a joint report released by the Jewish Agency and the Israeli Ministry of Immigration revealed...

Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Tzachi Hanegbi has warned the Palestinian Authority (PA) against applying for membership in the International Criminal Court (ICC) after the UN Security Council rejected a...

The US has imposed more sanctions on Iranian institutions and individuals, claiming that they have helped Iran's efforts to avoid similar sanctions and supported Tehran's alleged violations of human...

The reopening of the Iranian embassy in the US and the American embassy in Tehran are not on the agenda for talks between the two countries, Iran's Foreign Ministry...

As the year draws to a close one of the most highly respected voices in the international community says that he has genuine fears for the welfare of Israelis...

A US official has denied media reports that Secretary of State John Kerry threatened the Palestinian Authority with economic sanctions if President Mahmoud Abbas goes ahead with a unilateral...

The US has asked Turkey to put pressure on the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in order to "reduce tensions and prevent violence" in the occupied territories. A spokesman...

It will take the Iraqi army five years to rid the country completely of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant terrorist group, head of the Peshmerga's Makhmur-Gawar...

The US has "deep concerns" about Egypt's detention of three Al-Jazeera English journalists on terrorism-related charges, the State Department said Monday. "We continue to urge the Egyptian government to...

US President Barack Obama has said that he is "very hesitant" to devote another trillion dollars to help in efforts to combat the Islamic State of Iraq and the...

The US State Department has sharply criticised the Palestinian statehood bid recently submitted to the UN Security Council. The Palestinian Authority (PA) submitted the final draft of the bid...

In 2009, the Central Intelligence Agency warned senior US policy-makers that their controversial drone strike programme might backfire. Washington ignored the CIA; the following year, the frequency of drone...

Coca-Cola is building a factory in Gaza, but before you applaud such an investment in an area where the economy is shattered and unemployment ranks among the highest in...

The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, called on the Palestinian Authority (PA) to withdraw a draft resolution it submitted to the UN Security Council demanding to set a timetable to...

A Palestinian court in Ramallah has ruled to adjourn the trial of former Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan over corruption charges. Dahlan's lawyer, Sevag Torossian, told AFP that the court...

With the necessary political will, President Barack Obama's 17 December announcement that "it's time for a new approach" towards Cuba could be applied to Palestine. There is, indeed, a...

"There will be no discussions in the UNSC until the end of the year", the head of the UN Security Council and Chad's Permanent Representative...