Asia & Americas

The United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva will vote on five anti-Israel resolutions on Thursday and Friday; one of which calls for the boycott and divestment of Israeli...

Human Rights Council expert Richard Falk condemned Israel's practices on occupied Palestinian lands, accusing it of complicity in "racial segregation" and "ethnic cleansing". In a press conference held in...

Instead of exercising pressure on Israel, the US administration is currently considering a "lucrative" offer to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to save the peace process and release a fourth...

US State Department spokesperson Jennifer Psaki told reporters on Thursday that the US administration has not yet decided on resuming military aid to Egypt. Commenting on the latest communications...

The United Nations (UN) Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) has condemned the imprisonment of political dissidents in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and called for their immediate release....

US Secretary of State John Kerry contacted Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday to officially protest against remarks made by Israel's Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon, who described the...

American Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday expressing the US' concerns over the "confusing" and "unconstructive" remarks made by Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon. In a telephone conversation with...

The US Administration ordered on Tuesday the suspension of Syrian diplomatic operations on its soil, asking Syrian employees to leave the country. The measure came after the Syrian authorities...

Israel is urging senior US officials and key congressmen to continue supplying the Egyptian army with 10 advanced Apache combat helicopters. An Israeli official said supplying the Egyptian army...

Diplomatic sources in Washington have revealed to the UAE-based newspaper Al-Khaleej that the political disagreement between the State of Qatar and the major Gulf States has prevented the meeting...

After meetings with US President Barack Obama and US Secretary of State John Kerry in Washington on Monday, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli leaders were told...

Secretary of State John Kerry has announced a new special US envoy for Syria. He replaces a veteran diplomat who retired earlier this year amid a breakdown in talks...

The US Department of Defence said its units intercepted the North Korean flagged Morning Glory oil tanker which carried crude oil from rebel ports in Libya through international waters...

Ahead of the meeting between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and US President Barack Obama at the White House on Monday, US Secretary of State John Kerry asked Abbas...

US Secretary of State John Kerry told the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on Thursday that Israelis are making a mistake by insisting that the Palestinians must recognise Israel...

The US-based Friends of the IDF organisation has managed in one night to raise $20 million dollars, equal to about 70 million Israeli shekels, during its yearly gala in...

The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged Russia and the United States to help revive the stalled peace talks aimed at ending the Syrian civil war, stressing that...

The US denounced on Wednesday the rocket attacks against Israel launched by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement and called for an immediate halt to what it described as "terrorist...

The United Nations Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process James W. Rawley expressed concern about the processes that led to the killing of three Palestinians in...

This is what Malaysian Prime Minister Dato' Sri Haji Mohammad Najib told the prime minister of the Palestinian government in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, via telephone on Tuesday. According to...

Washington has warned Libyan rebels about attempting to export oil without the consent of the central government. It said that buyers of such "illegal" oil could face prosecution and...

Students from Canada's Ottawa University launched a campaign to boycott the Israeli company which produces Sabra Hummus saying the company's revenues support the Golani Brigade of the Israeli army...

"The main Israeli demand is that the PA recognise Israel as a Jewish state in a framework agreement, which is rejected by Ramallah until now," the Israeli newspaper Maariv...

27 United Nations member states are alarmed by Egypt's repeated use of excessive force against demonstrators and have turned the international spotlight onto Egypt's human rights abuses, Human Rights...

The US State Department voiced its concern over the human rights climate in Egypt following a joint statement on Egypt by the UN Human Rights Council, co-signed by the...

The committee working to free convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard has said that he has been transferred to a hospital for medical treatment from the American prison where he...

Russia, Iran and Hezbollah are losing the war in Syria, US President Barack Obama said. In reference to the unwillingness of Washington to embroil itself militarily in the Syrian...

The House Foreign Affairs Committee approved on Wednesday a bill that would enhance US-Israel defence ties and waived US entrance visa for Israelis. Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Congressman Ted...

A local NGO has launched a massive project to promote awareness about several social problems plaguing Jordanian society, including domestic violence, child labour and human trafficking. The project, which...

A report prepared by UN investigators said on Wednesday that the chemical weapons used in the Damascus suburbs of Khan Al-Assal and Al-Ghota last year were taken from warehouses...

The United States has restricted the movement of the Syrian envoy to the United Nations, Bashar Ja'afari, allowing him to move only within 40 kilometres from the UN headquarters...

A senior US official said that US President Barack Obama promised Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he would put pressure on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas "to make...