Asia & Americas

Kuwait has denied reports that its Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al Khalid Al Sabah met with the Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni on the side-lines of the UN General...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi in New York yesterday and extended an invitation for him to visit Israel to discuss cooperation in the...

No two people would ever disagree on the strategic nature of the relationship between Israel and successive American administrations over the course of the past six decades. Not only...

I was recently visited by two American diplomats in Education City in Qatar who are interested in the political transformations in the Arab region. We had a long talk...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon yesterday thanked the American President Barack Obama for heading a UNSC meeting to discuss foreign fighters including the Islamic State (ISIS). Addressing UNSC member states,...

US President Barack Obama told the UN General Assembly on Wednesday that "the status quo in the West Bank and Gaza is not sustainable," Al-Reselah Press reported. Obama said...

The US and its Arab partners air raids against oil fields controlled by Islamic State (ISIS) militants in Syria yesterday evening, the Pentagon announced. The source confirmed that Saudi...

In recent months, relations between Iran and its longstanding enemies in Britain and America have thawed somewhat. Earlier this year, Iran's president Hassan Rouhani and US president Barack Obama...

Leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah said that despite his party's hostility towards "terrorist organisations", he rejects the international alliance formed and led by the US against the Islamic...

Russia's Foreign Ministry criticised the airstrikes led by the US in cooperation with other countries that targeted the Islamic State (ISIS) organisation in Syria. According to the Anadolu news...

The Syrian government stated on Tuesday that it was made aware in advance of the air strikes against Islamic State sites on its soil, and that it had received...

Airstrikes being launched by a US led coalition against Islamic State (ISIS) targets are "illegal", Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said. In an interview on American TV in New York...

Palestinians in Gaza are to encounter further imperialist interference during the already compromised reconstruction process of the enclave. Following his discourse at the UN Security Council in which Israelis...

Nowadays, America is intensifying its efforts for what it calls combatting terrorism. It is working very hard to establish an international coalition consisting mainly of Arab countries to combat...

Egypt says the war on the Islamic State (ISIS) must be extended to include the Muslim Brotherhood in the region, a diplomatic source told Al-Mesryoon website. According to the...

The United States announced yesterday that it refuses to link talks over Iran's nuclear program with efforts to form an international alliance to fight the Islamic State (ISIS), the...

The Shia militia of Liwa Abu Al-Fadl Al-Abbas, formed during the conflict in Syria, has reportedly announced its rejection of US military intervention to fight the Islamic State in...

Iran has become the principal player in the Middle East region and that the United States should acknowledge the country's capabilities should it want to resolve the region's problems,...

Dozens of social justice activists managed to prevent a ship that is owned by the Israeli company ZIM from unloading its cargo last weekend at the port of Tampa...

The Israeli authorities have so far refused to grant access to a UN official planning to visit the occupied Palestinian territories (OPT) between 20 and 28 September, a UN...

Egyptian President and ex-army chief Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi met with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in New York yesterday amid protests against him by Egyptian Americans. The meeting lasted 20...

The United States will deliver 10 Apache helicopters to Egypt to prop up its counter-terrorism efforts in the Sinai peninsula, US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel told his Egyptian...

Iran has a role to play in fighting ISIS, US Secretary of State John Kerry said. "The fact is there is a role for nearly every country in the...

American Secretary of State John Kerry said during his speech at the UNSC on Friday that Qatar, Saudi Arabia and other countries have paid $1bn towards the war on...

Human Rights watch criticised on Friday the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) statement on Iraq and ISIS, saying that it will lead to the alienation of Sunnis in the...

The US is prepared to launch airstrikes on ISIS targets in Syria but will not disclose the planned timing of its operations, national security adviser Susan Rice said on...

Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman asked his American counterpart, John Kerry, to make sure the US lifts a warning issued to its citizens against traveling to Israel, which came...

US Congress has approved $500 million to support President Barack Obama's plan to arm and equip five to 10,000 Syrian rebels which Washington describes as "moderate" in their fight...

The US routinely shares private information about its citizens of Arab and Palestinian descent with Israel, the New York Times revealed yesterday. In an Op-Ed in the newspaper, James...

In the context of 2014 being the "International Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People", and to coincide with the speech that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is scheduled to...

The US has rejected an initiative set out by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to set a timeframe to end the Israeli occupation, Palestinian news agency Ma'an reported diplomatic sources...

As any five star general worth his salt will tell you, a war without an exit strategy is a war that is likely to be lost. And yet as...