Asia & Americas

The Christian Science Monitor (CSM) has commented on the oppression campaign against the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in Egypt. CSM, which is close to US decision makers, ruled out the...

American diplomats have ruled out reaching a prospective framework agreement between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Israeli occupation based on American proposals. The diplomats, who preferred to speak...

PHOTOS Dozens of activists braved extremely cold weather in New York City on Saturday to stage a protest in front of the Egyptian Consulate demanding that Egypt open the...

Israel's Maariv newspaper revealed on Monday new details of US Secretary of State John Kerry's framework proposal for pushing the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations forward. According to the newspaper, Kerry has...

During a discussion of the Syrian crisis, which started more than two and half years ago, US Republican and Democratic Senators demanded on Tuesday that the US allow more...

Images An Indonesian non-governmental organisation has collected nearly $15 million from Indonesia's poor and rich alike to build the first Indonesian hospital in the Gaza Strip. The hospital, which...

Malaysia's ruling party UMNO extended an invitation to the speaker of Egypt's dissolved parliament, Saad El-Katatni, to attend the annual party conference in Kuala Lumpur, a symbolic recognition of...

China has officially requested the Egyptian regime to replace the former chief of military police, Brigadier Hamdi Badin, as its military attaché in China because of his alleged "involvement...

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib abdul-Razak has criticised the military coup in Egypt, noting that it shouldn't have been carried out. Speaking to the CNN's chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour...

China has condemned the violent incidents in Egypt on October 6th and the security forces crackdown on peaceful demonstrators, as well as the Egyptian government's failure to conduct a...

China has warned that a military strike against Syria would damage the global economy. Zhu Guangyao, China's Deputy Minister of Finance, told a press conference on the sidelines of...

The General Secretary of the Palestinian Ministerial Council in Gaza, Abdul-Salam Syam, said on Tuesday that Malaysia had agreed a $6million grant for re-construction projects in Gaza. According to...

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas met his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Monday in Beijing. The latter expressed his country's support for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. The...

China's special envoy to the Middle East, Mr. Wu Si-ke, today called for the inclusion of the Islamic Resistance Movement in the negotiations aimed at achieving peace in the...

An Australian court has rejected a request made by the police force in Sydney to postpone a march commemorating the Nakba. The police asked for it to be held...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and to celebrate the organisation has been holding a series of high profile events across...

Saturday, March 13, 2010 Posted By Mark Perry On Jan. 16, two days after a killer earthquake hit Haiti, a team of senior military officers from the U.S. Central...

The Huffington Post (US). . MJ Rosenberg 20/11/2009. George Mitchell's job as Middle East Special Envoy has got to be terribly frustrating for a man whose life story has been...

By Oliver McTernan In June 2009, Barack Obama declared to the Arab world from the podium at Cairo University that the US would be even-handed in its efforts to...

By Maidhc Ó Cathail In the wake of the weird Christmas Day "underwear bomber" incident on Northwest Flight 253, former Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff, as if on cue,...

By Ibrahim al-AbsiIn vain, it seems, we hope that one day the United States will adopt, just once, a fair position on Arab national issues, especially the Palestinians', whose...

Sent from Emily Schaeffer, human right lawyer in Israel/Palestine, who asked Archbishop Tutu to write the letter. It was with great joy that I learned of your recent 16-4...

By Omar RadwanLast Saturday, President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority called on the United States to impose unilaterally a solution on the Israel-Palestine conflict. US President Barack Obama...

Perhaps it is more appropriate to begin with the question of whether a two-state settlement has ever been possible and/or viable at anytime at all since 1948. This essay...

US Financing Israeli-Only Roads in the West Bank By Jonathan Cook The construction of sections of a controversial segregated road network in the West Bank planned by Israel for...

By Omar Radwan On Sunday, Israel stopped Professor Noam Chomsky, the prominent American dissident academic, from entering the West Bank to give a lecture on American foreign policy at...

By Attorney-d. Mahmoud Ramahi Any neutral person looking at the Palestinian situation would see that there is an underlying theme: "negotiations" is a euphemism for Palestinian concessions. This is...

By Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban Despite transport and communications difficulties in the 19th and early 20th century, our ancestors defied the dangers of oceans, death and disease to get to...

Dr. Bouthaina Shaaban When Nelson Mandela stood to greet the thousands of people gathered to watch the world cup final in South Africa, everyone stood to show respect to...

By John J. MearsheimerThere is no question that the United States has a relationship with Israel that has no parallel in modern history. Washington gives Israel consistent, almost unconditional...

By Maidhc Ó Cathail Helen Keller's pithy observation about American democracy being little more than a choice "between Tweedledum and Tweedledee" was never more true than in the upcoming...

By Alastair Crooke The 'weakness' of Europe — and also that of the US — in the Middle East is not essentially one of waning power and influence. Although...