Asia & Americas

The UN General Assembly – Fourth Committee has adopted nine resolutions in favour of Palestine. The resolutions included four on the work of the United Nations Relief and Works...

US Secretary of State John Kerry stressed the Israeli and Palestinian's full commitment to calm the situation in Jerusalem which are threatening to escalate into a third Intifada. Speaking...

Ten years after Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned by polonium, probably murdered, several Latin American countries have joined Palestinians in commemorating both the anniversary of his death and...

The United States expressed concern over Israel's decision to build 200 new housing units in East Jerusalem, it also condemned the burning of a mosque in the West Bank....

According to some forecasters the price of oil might hit $75 a barrel soon. Goldman Sachs has even predicted a $70 barrel of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) in 2015....

An Iranian copy of a US reconnaissance drone captured in 2011 has taken its first flight, state news agency IRNA reported on Monday. In December 2011, Iran said it...

Reports in The Times of Israel and Haaretz have once again covered the narrative relating to Operation Protective Edge, this time by US Joint Chief of Staff General Martin...

The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that US President Barack Obama sent a secret letter in October to the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to discuss...

US president Barack Obama said yesterday that it is still far too early to say that the international coalition against the Islamic State (ISIS), led by the United States,...

"Israel's latest decision for settlement expansion in Jerusalem is not only a slap in Secretary Kerry's face, but it's a blow to the entire Palestinian...

Jen Psaki, the official spokesperson for the US State Department, recently confirmed that Washington has no intention or plans to re-launch the peace process. She added: "It is possible...

American Vice President Joe Biden said he did not apologise to the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the statements he made last month at Harvard University regarding Ankara's...

US President Barack Obama has threatened to lift the ban on the veto given to Israel, a decision that many view as a threat to Israel's existence, Israeli news...

A Palestinian official said that the Palestinian Authority refuses to return to the US-sponsored bilateral negotiations with Israel, citing the ineffectiveness of these negotiations while Israel continues to expand...

In her novel Clemency Burton-Hill asks if love can put back together what the world has torn apart. This question is explored as she tells the story of a...

The Japanese government said on Friday that it is "worried" about the expansion of Israeli settlements in Jerusalem, the Palestinian newspaper Al-Quds reported. The information secretary of the Japanese...

US Secretary of State John Kerry has called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to keep the "status quo" at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem. In a...

US President Barack Obama plans to make some major changes to the Cabinet after the Senate and House of Representative elections set to take place next month, Israeli newspaper...

The US is looking at ways if engaging with the Sunni Muslims in Iraq and empowering them in their fight against Islamic State (ISIS) militants, General Martin Dempsey, chairman...

The Obama administration has reiterated its support for the Egyptian regime's on-going war against terrorism, including the establishment of a controversial buffer zone on the border with Gaza, but...

Not for the first time the Obama administration and the Israeli government have been hanging out their dirty linen in public. On the face of it, the Americans are...

The former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Danny Ayalon recently said he would not be surprised if US President Barack Obama did not use the US veto in...

With a growing list of US military interventions around the world, and their accompanying human rights abuses including the ongoing shame of Guantanamo Bay in the background, it is...

A senior official at the United Nations has said that Israel's commitment to build 1,060 settler homes in East Jerusalem raises serious doubts about the country's commitment to peace...

The spokesperson of the US State Department, Jen Psaki, described an American official's strong criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as "inappropriate and counterproductive". During Wednesday's daily press...

The United States expressed concern after a Bahraini court banned the country's main opposition group, Al-Wefaq, for three months on Tuesday, just weeks before a parliamentary election the group...

Diplomatic tensions aside, Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon and United States Secretary of Defence Chuck Hagel have finalized the terms of an Israeli purchase of a second group of...

Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi has called on Western countries to lift all sanctions that have imposed on his country in order to reach an agreement on its...

A prominent member of Al-Ahrar (Freedom) parliamentary bloc of Al-Sadr movement, led by Shia cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr, said today that his bloc is determined to end the presence of...

The US expressed deep concerns on Monday over Israel's announcement of a new wave of illegal settlements in occupied Jerusalem, while the EU condemned the move and Jordan's parliament...

The Palestinian news website Arabs48 has reported that several former Israeli officials, speaking to Israeli television, have described the relations between the US and Israel as having reached a...

At least ten people were killed in an American drone raid on positions assumed to belong to Sunnis believed to be connected with Al-Qaeda organisation in the city of...