Asia & Americas

American Vice President Joe Biden has criticised his country for putting pressure on Israel. He opposes Israeli concessions to the Palestinians, 1985 recordings have revealed. The recordings purportedly belonged...

American expert of Middle Eastern issues at Wilson Research Centre, Aron Miller, has said that Israel is not ready to grant the minimum demands of Palestinians in any peace...

Sudan has harshly criticised the US State Department's annual global terrorism report, released on Wednesday, which names Sudan as a "state sponsor of terrorism". The Sudanese Foreign Ministry issued...

Israeli police yesterday rejected the US State Department's annual global terrorism report which named Jewish extremists' attacks against Palestinians as terrorist acts saying such incidents cannot be compared with...

Former US President Bill Clinton has revealed that during the Camp David negotiations, which took place in 2000 between then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and then-Palestinian President Yasser Arafat,...

US Senators Mark Kirk and Marco Rubio of the Republican Party on Thursday called on Secretary of State John Kerry to publically declare that the US will immediately cut...

The United States is disappointed with US ally Bahrain's decision to sign an agreement to cooperate on investment with Russia at a time when American and European governments impose...

The official Facebook page for Egypt's Ministry of Foreign Affairs raised eyebrows on Tuesday when it published photos of a meeting between interim Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy and leaders...

A report on Terrorism published by the US State Department Wednesday hailed the performance of Palestinian security agencies as well as Egypt's efforts in countering smuggling of weapons to...

American military aid to Egypt lost Senate support in the wake of the mass death sentences issued by the Minya Criminal Court, American newspapers reported yesterday Chairman of the...

US lawmakers warned yesterday that US might freeze its annual aid to the Palestinian Authority if the Islamic Resistance movement Hamas joined a national consensus government. Assistant Secretary for...

US Secretary of State John Kerry vaguely described the mass death sentences as "disturbing". At a press conference with his Egyptian counterpart Tuesday, Kerry said that despite "positive steps"...

Oil prices surged on Tuesday as traders reacted to yet another outbreak of violence in Libya and the continued unrest in Ukraine. The price of oil had registered its...

US Secretary of State John Kerry attempted to distance himself on Monday from his previous remarks describing Israel as being at risk of becoming "an apartheid state" during a...

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...