Asia & Americas

Philip Gordon, a senior advisor of US President Barack Obama, has said that Hamas-Fatah reconciliation "is not necessarily a bad thing," the Haaretz has reported. Gordon was, apparently, addressing...

Former US President Jimmy Carter has promised Ismail Haniyeh that he will lend his support to the Palestinian reconciliation agreement signed last week. Carter spoke with the elected prime...

US Secretary of State John Kerry warned foreign leaders on Friday that Israel risks becoming an "apartheid state" if a peace deal with the Palestinians, based on the two-state...

Senior Libyan sources revealed to Al-Araby Al-Gadeed website that the visit by deputy US Secretary of State William Burns to Tripoli two days ago included a warning by Burns...

China yesterday welcomed the Palestinian reconciliation agreement signed between Fatah and Hamas to end the division and form a national consensus government, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. China's...

The US has allocated some $1.5 billion in aid to Egypt for the fiscal year 2014, US State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki said yesterday. Psaki pointed out that the...

Human Rights Watch yesterday urged US Secretary of State John Kerry to raise concerns about Egypt's human rights record during his meeting with Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmi scheduled...

A senior US administration official said on Thursday that the United States would have to reconsider its aid to the Palestinians if the Fatah-led Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) forms...

Egypt has proven its support for US and Israeli interests in the Middle East so it is qualified to receive US military support, American media reported the US administration...

The United Nations Security Council yesterday called for an investigation into reports that chlorine gas was used to bomb Syrian towns, leaving many dead and wounded. Nigeria's Ambassador to...

Spokesperson of the US Department of State Jen Psaki said on Wednesday that the Obama administration is "disappointed" by the reconciliation pact between Fatah and Hamas, the two main...

The US' decision to refuse granting visa to Iran's new envoy to the United Nations is a "unique case" in the history of the international organisation, a UN spokesman...

Bashar Al-Assad's plan to hold presidential elections in the current circumstances undermine efforts to find a political solution to the crisis in Syria, the United Nations said yesterday. The...

Dissolving the Palestinian Authority (PA) would have "grave implications" and Palestinians would be the losers, spokesperson of the US Department of State Jen Psaki said on Monday. "That type...

The US has evidence that a toxic chemical substance, probably chlorine, may have been used in Syria this month and is examining evidence whether the Syrian government is responsible;...

US drones killed more than 40 Yemenis over the Easter weekend. The Obama administration claimed that it had targeted Al-Qaeda members, Yemeni and other mass media reported. Several news...

In her daily press briefing, the spokeswoman of the US State Department Jennifer Psaki said that the United States "is deeply concerned by the dire and tragic situation in...

American universities and college campuses have long served as a vibrant front in the struggle for social justice and today they are increasingly providing critical spaces of resistance in...

Throughout the nine months of the current round of Israel-Palestine peace talks, and the torturous months of convincing both parties to return to the negotiating table that preceded it,...

America is once again getting a lecture from a client state in the Middle East. This week's lecturer is Egypt's president-in-waiting, a man who should be before a court...

The announcement that Fatah and Hamas will be embarking upon reconciliation has raised the ire of Israel and the US. As the formation of an interim unity government within...

A recent op-ed in the Jerusalem Post glorifying the international influence of Israel with particular reference to Guatemala has once again sparked the conviction that the settler-colonial state should...

We can no longer ignore the fact that we are witnessing a new cold war at an international level and that it is being led by the United States...

The Israeli Foreign Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, is the person who expresses most truthfully the feelings of most Israelis, or those of the government coalition parties in Tel Aviv. The...

Strategic assessment number (24) – July 2010 Assessment Summary: Two decades after the Madrid Conference and the launching of the peace process in its current framework, the American sponsor...

Something unusual is happening in the upper echelons of the US military establishment. There is a constant drip of reports calling for a change in official policy toward Palestine....

US President Barack Obama met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday (6 July) to discuss, among other things, ways of brokering direct peace talks with the Palestinian Authority....

One month on, the fallout from Israel's attack on the aid flotilla shows no sign of abating. Calls for an independent and credible inquiry continue to grow, not only...

As the fallout continues to grow after Israel's attack on and hijacking of the Freedom Flotilla in the Mediterranean Sea, an ex-Assistant Secretary General of the UN has written...

Israel's ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, has said that relations between the two countries have entered their worst crisis for 35 years. When the Israeli government announced a...

"Gilligan's Island" was a sixties sitcom with an eponymous hero who was "bumbling, dim-witted accident-prone". Andrew Gilligan had nothing to do with that programme, but one can't help...

At a time of year when editors are looking for news items to fill their pages and programmes, one story sticks out: an international aid convoy with 400 participants...