Asia & Americas

US Senator John McCain has expressed his belief that the Islamic State (ISIS) is winning its battle in Iraq and Syria, and warned that it could eventually impose its...

Trying to mitigate the impact of recent criticism leveled by two Israeli cabinet ministers against U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Israeli foreign and defense ministers heaped praise on...

US State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki confirmed during Wednesday's daily press briefing that the US has begun delivering Apache helicopters to Egypt, noting that the US had announced its...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas declared his intention to stick to his plan of going to the UN Security Council at the end of this month, despite a request...

More than $1.6 billion in Iraqi funds had been stolen and moved to a bunker in rural Lebanon for safekeeping, the former Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Stuart...

Washington will deliver Apache helicopters to Cairo next month; Egyptian President Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi reported the US Secretary of State John Kerry as saying. This came during a meeting...

Turkish officials reiterated on Monday that a deal had not been reached with the US to allow it to use Turkey's air bases for operations against the Islamic State....

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ali Khamenei has accused the US, UK and Israel of creating the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq in order to...

The Palestinian-Israeli conflict has been raging its deadly flame for decades, with an ever-increasing death toll, atrocities, and broken lives forming the narrative the world so frequently hears about....

The apology offered to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey by U.S. Vice President Biden is unimportant. What is really important is what he said disclosing that...

US Department of State said on Friday that Ankara has agreed to support training and to equip the moderate Syrian opposition, Reuters reported. "Turkey has agreed to support train-and-equip...

A multi-national Arab Bank has asked for a retrial in a US terror case because it was based on a "series of incorrect and prejudicial rulings". The case saw...

The US Secretary of State, John Kerry, said that while Islamic State's (ISIS) advancement in the city of Ain Al-Arab- Kobane on the Syrian border is a tragedy, it...

The US Department of State announced on Wednesday that Israel should contribute to the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, which suffered devastating damages in the latest Israeli aggression. Washington's...

US Vice-President Joe Biden apologised on Tuesday to Saudi Arabia, after already making apologies to Turkey and the UAE, for saying that they have supported terrorism in the Middle...

The Pentagon said yesterday that Turkey's proposed buffer zone in Syria was not on the table as part of the military options being considered, however, this was the last...

The Islamic State (ISIS) is primarily using ammunition from China and the US in its war against the governments in Syria and Iraq, a new study has revealed. According...

In keeping with typical imperialist swagger, the US has criticised Israeli settlement expansion while continuing to give the Zionist state political and military support at all levels. This apparent...

US State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki criticised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for saying that the US response to Israel's expansion of settlement construction in occupied Jerusalem was "against...

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden apologised Saturday to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for comments about Turkey and terrorism. In a phone call with the Turkish President on Saturday,...

The Turkish prime minister has denounced claims made by the U.S. vice-president Joe Biden that Turkey had permitted the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant....

Because the Palestinian struggle is very important to me on a personal level and I know the same is true for you, I knew you'd want to see this....

The Central Pacific Conference of the United Church of Christ (UCC) has endorsed a call for boycott and divestment from companies that profit from the Israeli occupation of the...

The US has rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's comparison of Iran and the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) to the Islamic State (ISIS) yesterday, as well as his sharp...

Scholars and activists for the Working Group on Egypt at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, one of Washington's most influential think-tanks, published an open letter on Thursday to...

US President Barack Obama admitted yesterday that Washington did not expect the deteriorating situation in Syria to lead to the emergence of "dangerous" and "extremist" groups such as ISIS....

The Islamic Action Front, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, has said that the main goal of the US-led war on terrorism is to "redraw the...

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,...