Turkey's first indigenous communications satellite Turksat 6A, which is due to be completed in 2022, will be launched by the US-based space firm SpaceX, Anadolu reports. After looking into the offers...

In news that is likely to be met in Riyadh with a sense of relief, a potential $500 million military support service for Saudi Arabia has been approved by...

Iranian fuel and petrochemical exports have boomed in recent years despite stringent US sanctions, leaving Iran well placed to expand sales swiftly in Asia and Europe if Washington lifts...

The United States yesterday imposed sanctions on five Al-Qaeda supporters working out of Turkey to provide financial services and travel help to the militant group, Reuters reported the Treasury Department announcing....

Iran yesterday dismissed the UN nuclear watchdog's work as "unprofessional" and "unfair" shortly before the two sides are due to hold talks aimed at resolving a standoff over the origin...

Hezbollah began bringing Iranian fuel into Lebanon via Syria today, a move the group says should ease a crippling energy crisis but which opponents say risks provoking US sanctions, Reuters reports....

Turkey and Qatar are working to resume normal flights to Kabul Hamid Karzai International Airport, the United States State Department spokesperson said yesterday. Ned Price said that the Taliban...

Iran, emboldened by the messy US withdrawal from Afghanistan, is betting that its new hardline cabinet — including Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani — can force concessions in...

Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh today met a high-level US delegation headed by Joey Hood, the assistant secretary of state for Middle Eastern affairs, in Tripoli. The delegation...

The US state of New Jersey warned yesterday that it will consider divesting funds Ben & Jerry's, along with its parent company, Unilever, as a result of the ice-cream...

On 17 February, 2017, the then-US chargé d'affaires in Havana sent a complaint to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX) about alleged "attacks" against his staff, which had theoretically...

The world watched as the Taliban swept across Afghanistan and seized the capital Kabul, and the faction announcement of an interim government on 7 September was further evidence of...

Lebanon's former Prime Minister Hassan Diab yesterday headed to the United States despite the issuance of a subpoena from the judge investigating last year's devastating Beirut port explosion. Diab's adviser,...

Three former US intelligence operatives, who went to work as mercenary hackers for the United Arab Emirates, face federal charges by the US Justice Department, according to a court...

A resolution condemning Israel's brutal military regime and "apartheid" has been passed by a local branch of America's second largest teaching union, the American Federation of Teachers. Teachers, staff...

TankerTrackers.com has visual confirmation that an Iranian tanker is discharging petrol in Syria's Baniyas port which is destined for neighbouring Lebanon, Reuters reported the online oil shipment tracking service saying today....

Russian President Vladimir Putin met his Syrian counterpart Bashar Al-Assad in Moscow yesterday. The two leaders criticised the role of foreign military forces in the ongoing conflict in Syria....

An American city council resolution to endorse a peaceful boycott of Israel has been shelved over fears raised by sections of the Jewish community that it promotes anti-Semitism. Council...

Egyptian human rights groups have denounced the administration of US President Joe Biden's decision to grant Egypt $170 million in military aid to the regime of President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi,...

Syria is still unsafe for the return of refugees a decade after its conflict began, UN war crimes investigators said today, documenting worsening violence and rights violations including arbitrary...

Terror threats emanating from Somalia, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq pose a greater danger to the United States than those that might emerge from Afghanistan, the Director of National Intelligence...

Russian security forces have completed the search for the bodies of two Israeli soldiers missing since 1982 in a cemetery near the Palestinian Yarmouk refugee camp outside the Syrian capital...

Users of Apple products, including mobile telephones, tablets, and watches, have been urged to update their devices to protect them from Israel's "mercenary" spyware company, the notorious NSO Group....

Israelis are concerned about the shameful American withdrawal from Afghanistan and think that their government now needs to reassert its ability to protect its own interests in the region...

The acting Secretary-General of Algeria's National Organisation of Mujahideen, Mohand Ouamar Benelhadj, yesterday rebuked the country's former foreign minister, Lakhdar Brahimi, over his recent statements about the US forces'...

The Pentagon spent up to $7 billion on contractors who "took advantage of wartime conditions" in the wake of 9/11, a new study released on Monday suggests. The figure...

There are relatively few truly world-changing events, but the 9/11 attack on New York's World Trade Centre in 2001 was one. Regardless of the numerous theories that have surrounded...

If the current situation of the Saudi-American relationship is described as an irrevocable divorce, this would be unfair, wishful thinking. The two countries would never accept the severance of...

Washington's growing distrust of Saudi Arabia has prompted another intervention by Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi. The 81-year-old is one of the most senior Democrat politicians,...

The number of Jewish American moving into illegal settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank has increased dramatically, according to recent data from Tel-Aviv's Central Bureau of Statistics. Out of...

Tens of thousands of members of the Yemeni community in the US have denounced and protested against the murder of Yemeni-American Abdul-Malik Al-Sanabani who was visiting relatives this month,...

Taliban's spokesperson Suhail Shaheen has said that his movement proposed cooperating with the US after the 9/11 attacks instead of American forces invading Afghanistan, but the US refused, Anadolu reported yesterday....