Asia & Americas

On the 65th anniversary of the UN partition resolution which allotted to a minority of Jews most of the land of Palestine, the Palestinians have returned to the world...

Hope and change have been the defining slogans of Barack Obama's political career. In his inimitable way he has now convinced the American electorate twice that he is capable...

Israel foresees a nuclear agreement between Iran and the G6, Haaretz newspaper said Sunday. According to a senior Israeli official quoted by Haaretz, a permanent agreement on Iran's nuclear...

When the United Nations General Assembly convenes for its annual meeting next month, the PLO/PA will make a request for "non-member state" status. Even if successful, the move would...

Two exceptional developments took place in the Middle East this week; neither Egypt nor Israel had witnessed anything like them before. Never in the past sixty years has a...

The Americans would be foolish to commit themselves to an attack on Iran based on Israeli intelligence, for the latter's claims about a nuclear threat from Tehran go back...

A media frenzy followed the publication of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's description of Benjamin Netanyahu as "a liar" during a private discussion with US President Barack Obama. The exchange...

A discordant trend is tearing apart the Western alliance and its Middle East policies. The armed intervention in Libya has highlighted this graphically, with the US giving only token...

No one could have expected that US President Barak Obama's resistance to the Israeli campaign against him, led by Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, in response to statements he made...

With a better track record of positive action, Barak Obama could have returned to Cairo to deliver his latest speech on the Middle East. Having failed to deliver on...

Arab dictators were not the only ones to have been taken aback by the scale and speed of events in the region. Their allies were also caught off guard....

The uprising in Libya and the government's response dominate the news.  After the success of the revolution which ousted President Mubarak in Egypt, it only took a few days...

It appears the United States efforts to resume direct negotiations between the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah and the Israeli Government has started to bear fruit. This comes amid widespread...

As the US mid-term elections draw tantalisingly closer the battle lines have been drawn. At the centre of them all is the Palestine issue. This is the message from...

By Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. (USFS, Ret.), Tufts University, October 15, 2010 As an American, I look at the results of U.S. policies in the Middle East and...

By Paul R. Pillar Lately one hasn't heard much of the screaming against the observation that supporters of a certain Middle Eastern state exercise influence over U.S. policy that...

It is shameful to see the United States grovelling before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his extreme right-wing coalition government. The US government is Israel's biggest political and...

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...