Asia & Americas

"Those who claim to respect international law cannot avert their eyes when those laws are flouted." "I believe that peace is unstable where citizens are denied the right to...

The situation in Gaza and the Occupied Palestinian Territories is worsening every day. In blatant disregard of international law, illegal settlements continue to spring up on confiscated Palestinian land....

Yesterday's approval by the Jerusalem municipal planning committee to proceed with the construction of 900 new housing units in the illegal Gilo settlement located in East Jerusalem has dealt...

Britain's recent negotiations with Libya and the release of Abdul-Basit Ali Al-Megrahi, the only person convicted for the worst ever terrorist atrocity on British soil, (the 1988 bombing of...

By Dr Hanan Chehata on the article "It's not just about Iran" By Hans Blix  (The Guardian, Thursday 8th October 2009.) We are told that the prospect of Iran developing...

By Dr Hanan Chehata on the article "Palestinians should trust Obama" written by the American Task Force on Palestine's President Ziad Asali, as reported in the Arab News Oct,...

The United Nations and the United States of America are calling for an investigation into human rights abuses by the Sri Lankan government and LTTE. Sadly, one of the...

I remember standing outside the White House lawn on March 26 1979, protesting the signing of Camp David accord between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and the ex-wanted British terrorist...

At the end of March, US President Barack Obama made his first visit to Saudi Arabia since Hosni Mubarak was ousted from power in Egypt in 2011. The fall...

Last November, amid a fanfare of international publicity, Sotheby's achieved a world record $83 million for a pink diamond auctioned in Geneva. Four months later, on February 27, Sotheby's...

A female Libyan employee at the US embassy in Tripoli was able to flee from her kidnappers on Tuesday after being held on Monday. The employee has been transferred...

American and Arab sports activists in the United States have launched the Red Card Israeli Racism campaign calling for Israel to be expelled from the Fédération Internationale de Football...

A report by the Council on Foreign Relations suggested that Egypt is close to experiencing an economic deadlock and that the US must intervene to rescue Egypt from impending...

Israel possesses more than 300 nuclear warheads, former US President Jimmy Carter told MSNBC last week. Carter played down Israel's ability to perform a military strike against the Iranian...

US officials expressed anger over Israel's policy of "non-interference" with the Russian annexation of the Crimea; Israel's Haaretz newspaper reported. A US official told the paper that the White...

For the first time, six former senior American officials issued a statement candidly accusing Israel of breaching international law and undermining peace talks. The statement came after a speech...

The Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday that the State of Palestine's accession to international conventions and treaties will enter into force on May...

"US Secretary of State John Kerry was clear throughout the negotiations saying that the two sides have taken futile steps and he avoided the entire time to involve himself...

A US military strike against Syria would not have changed the course of the civil war, US Secretary of State John Kerry said yesterday. Speaking before the Senate Foreign...

A US government report expects that the United States will become self-sufficient in oil production by the year 2037. This means that oil imports are expected to fall to...

Syrian "government forces have indiscriminately destroyed entire neighbourhoods and entire families were buried under the rubble of their homes," UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in statement today. The...

The Los Angeles Times's editorial board said Sunday that the election of Egypt's coup commander Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi to presidency will not bring about stability nor prosperity for the country...

Deputy Spokeswoman for the US Secretary of State Marie Harf said that holding presidential elections in Syria would make it difficult to bring all Syrian sides together on the...

The US should acknowledge in its certification review for resuming certain military aid that Egypt has made no progress on developing basic freedoms or on its democratic transition, Human...

During a visit to Algeria, the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani and US Secretary of State John Kerry discussed how Qatar will take over gas delivery...

American newspapers have given much attention to the Syrian and Ukrainian crises and one newspaper has said that the raging war in Syria is considered the greatest humanitarian disaster,...

The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Robert Serry has confirmed receiving requests made by the Palestinian Authority (PA) to join 13 international UN agreements and...

Abolish the 529 death sentences that were handed out last week and give defendants a fair trial ensuring respect for international human rights law; a group of human rights...

The Obama administration reiterated on Tuesday that the US continues to hold the shipment of new Apache helicopters to Egypt pending the US government's review of its military aid...

There is a possibility of creating security cooperation between Israel and its Arab neighbours to face joint regional challenges, General Martin Dempsey, visiting Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs...

Former US Vice President Dick Cheney has told a gathering of influential Republicans, including hopeful presidential candidates, that: "The United States' position in the Middle East is worse than...

President Barack Obama has not made any decisions as to whether or not to release Israeli Jonathan Pollard, convicted of spying in the US, the White House announced yesterday....