US House Democrats expressed anger over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to accept an invitation extended by the Republicans to speak at a US Congress joint session. The...
A group of 75 US senators have signed a letter addressed to the current US Secretary of State John Kerry asking him to punish Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas...
The US is "deeply troubled" by the mass sentences Egypt is handing down, the Anadolu Agency reported. "We are deeply troubled by the mass life sentences handed down by...
Israel has cheered a UN Human Rights Council decision to appoint American jurist Mary McGowan-Davis as the replacement for William Schabas who resigned from his post as chairman of...
The former US secretary of state, James Baker, has sharply criticised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's planned visit to Washington to speak before Congress, Israel's Maariv newspaper has reported. Baker,...
Al-Jazeera yesterday vowed "not to leave" Egyptian producer Baher Mohamed in jail following the release of Australian journalist Peter Greste and amid rising hopes Canadian Mohamed Fahmy will soon...
In its annual report, Human Rights Watch blamed the emergence of a number of notorious terror groups on human rights violations. The report reflects extensive investigative work that Human...
Islamic Action Front Party, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, demanded the Jordanian government take the necessary measures to save the F-16 pilot Muath Al-Kasaesbeh who...
The US-Israel special relationship is acknowledged universally as the unswayable force of politics in the Middle East. The theme is confessed ritually by every US president and Israeli prime...
A presenter on Egyptian TV has said that the Muslim Brotherhood are the funders of the White House and that they are its "masters and the ones who control...
Israeli Intelligence and Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz said on Sunday that the sanctions imposed on Iran were a result of Israeli efforts in this direction, Anadolu agency reported. The minister...
Iran's Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said yesterday that US President Barack Obama is unable to make a rational decision regarding the "reasonable and flexible policy" practiced by Iran in...
The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that some countries which deal with the "Egyptian Revolutionary Council" and the "Revolution Parliament", both entities which emerged from the Muslim Brotherhood...
States' policies change when their leaders change or when their circumstances change or when their policies reach a dead end. All of this has happened to the Saudi foreign...
State Department says settlements will have detrimental effects, inflame already heightened tensions with Palestinians and further isolate Israel internationally Israel's approval for the construction of new settlements in the...
The US Defence Department has said it is holding talks with Yemen's Houthi group following the resignation of President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi on 22 January. Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby...
The political situation in Yemen has been declining steadily for some months now. On Thursday, 22 January, it collapsed, with the Houthi rebels effectively seizing control of the government...
The media plays a significant role in shaping public opinion and narratives. Over the years, it has become a force to be reckoned with in all aspect of life,...
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin cut short his trip to the United States and will returned to Israel this afternoon after two Israeli soldiers were killed in a Hezbollah missile attack on the border with Lebanon, the...
The State Department has denied that US President Barack Obama's administration has changed its position on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, insisting that the US administration does not imagine a...
A top US Democrat Senator announced Tuesday that he is temporarily withholding support for a draft bill imposing further sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program. Democratic Senator Bob...
Iran has officially informed the United States that Israel crossed a "red line" with the airstrike which killed an Iranian general in Syria last week, Iran's news agency reported...
Spokeswoman of the US Department of State Jen Psaki asserted yesterday that Washington's aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) is continuous and no bills regarding cutting the relief have...
Forensic psychologist John Horgan argues that we are "genuinely unprepared" for the Islamic State. The author of "The Psychology of Terrorism", who has just returned to the US from...
Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has said that US-led air strikes on ISIS fighters in his country must be based on a prior agreement with Damascus, and that Syrian troops...
Last summer the United States thwarted the sale of used Cobra helicopters by Israel to Nigeria, Israeli media has reported. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that the US blocked the deal...
Jordan could comply with a hostage swap to save the life of a Japanese journalist held by Islamic State (ISIS) militants – but only if ISIS also throws in...
The United States will not halt or suspend its drone war on Al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen as a result of the continuous unrest and dominance of Houthi rebels of...
At last week's World Economic Forum in Davos, the Egyptian president, Abdul Fatah al-Sisi made a speech about the need for world leaders to unite against the global threat...
Jihadist groups in the region and the global movement for the campaign of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel are the main "strategic threats" facing Israel in 2015, a...
Turkey has outpaced many countries in terms of humanitarian aid distributed across the world. Turkey has embraced Syrian refugees fleeing civil war, Palestinians suffering Israeli offensives in Gaza, Yazidis...
Algeria recently witnessed a sharp debate over the mass migration of people to the southern town of Ein Saleh; many people fear that the new inhabitants have relocated in...