Asia & Americas

The relationship between the United Sates and Turkey has long been strained by disparity in each country's intentions and responses to the current war in Syria. In recent weeks,...

US Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday said that an Iranian military strike against the Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq would be "positive". Kerry's remarks came after the US...

The Shia-Sunni Alliance of New Jersey issued a joint statement on Tuesday openly condemning the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), also known as "Da'esh". Signed by 28...

The US has refused to designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organisation, stressing that there is insufficient credible proof that it has given up its decades-long commitment to refusing...

The United States said yesterday that it is not ready to enforce a no-fly zone over Syria in response to Turkey's demands, AFP reported. White House spokesman Josh Earnest...

Mass abuse of migrant workers by the Gulf monarchies and sheikhdoms has a fan-club in the West; a clique of academics, lawyers and ideologues who think that exploitative labour...

It has emerged that US Secretary of State John Kerry has urged the Palestinian Authority, possibly even used the threat of sanctions, not to ratify the Rome Statute of...

Israeli and US companies are in talks with Egypt over a gas contract said to be worth billions of dollars. Israel's Delek Company and America's Noble Energy are reported...

Observers of the negotiations over Iran's nuclear programme would be forgiven for feeling that history was repeating itself this week. Yet another deadline to reach an agreement to limit...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday condemned US "impertinence" on the Syrian crisis, Palestinian newspaper Al-Resalah reported. During a meeting with Turkish businessmen, Erdogan said: "I want you to...

The US is set to send 3,000 new smart bombs, similar to those used against the Gaza Strip in the recent to Israel assault, Haaretz reported. According to the...

The US ambassador in Algeria, Joan Polachik, said on Wednesday that Washington supports Algeria's efforts to launch a dialogue between Libya's factions because the resolution to the crisis will...

While the EU parliament decided to postpone a vote on Palestinian statehood following pressure from Israeli diplomats, Israel's colonial rule was being defended at the UN General Assembly by...

The deputy chief of Tunisian Islamist movement Ennahda, Abdelfattah Mourou, announced on Wednesday that he has been prevented from travelling to the US. Anadolu news agency reported that Mourou...

The United Nations the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People held a special session in the General Assembly on Monday marking the anniversary...

The spokesman for the US Department of Defence John Kirby denied any connection between US Secretary of Defence Chuck Hagel's resignation and the American strategy in the fight against...

Chris Gunness, spokesperson for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), slammed Tuesday what he called the "callousness" of Israel's summer...

The Middle East Studies Association (MESA), meeting in Washington D.C., passed a resolution Monday defending the right of its members to discuss, and advocate for, a boycott of Israel....

The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ali Khamenei, said on Tuesday that the US and European colonial powers have united to bring Iran to its knees,...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu emphasised that air strikes alone will not be enough to remove the threat posed by ISIS. Çavuşoğlu's statements came in the form of a...

"Israel is a Jewish and democratic state in which all citizens should enjoy equal rights," US State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke said during a press conference yesterday. Rathke said:...

Israel's Economy Minister and leader of the Jewish Home party Naftali Bennett rejected the US State Department's criticism regarding the nation-state law which states that country is for Jews,...

It looks like any of the other independent jewellery shops in the coastal city of Ernakalum, southern Kerala. The glass shop front sits within Broadway Market: three hundred wholesale...

The Carter Center election observation mission said Sunday that the voting process of Tunisia's presidential elections has kicked off in a decent, peaceful and professional manner. The assertion came...

Neither the coalition forces nor the US are serious in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Head of Iraq's Parliament Security Committee Hakim al-Zamili...

Following the historical recognition by the Swedish government, British legislators voted overwhelmingly on a non-binding resolution urging their government to recognise the state of Palestine. Ireland's Seanad and Spain's...

"US victims of bombings and shootings in Jerusalem more than a decade ago have cleared a final hurdle to take the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Palestine Liberation Organisation...

The recent decision by the United Arab Emirates to include major Muslim American organisations such as CAIR and the Muslim American Society amongst the other 83 international organisations as...

A senior US official said that there is a strong possibility of reaching an agreement with Iran over its nuclear programme. In a telephone conversation with Al-Quds, the official...

Washington announced that it has contacted officials in the UAE asking for reasons why two American-Islamic organisations were included in the country's list of terror groups. Yesterday, US State...

US citizen Mohamed Soltan has been in an Egyptian jail for over a year, and on hunger strike for nearly all of that time. He has smuggled a letter...

The US State Department has criticised the Israeli decision to demolish the houses of the Palestinians who carried out attacks against Israelis, reports said. Spokeswoman of the US State...