Syria views a US decision to halt CIA support to rebel groups fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad as a “start” towards ending the six-year conflict, a government minister...

During a recent session of UNESCO, the Israeli representative asked a number of his fellow representatives to join him in a minute’s silence in memory of Holocaust victims. The...

A Saudi lobbying agency is paying $138,000 for 30-second TV spots for ads in the US accusing Qatar of funding terrorism. Contracts reviewed by Al Jazeera show that the...

Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Angelino Alfano, yesterday welcomed the new Qatari amendments to the laws on combating terrorism. “The memorandum of understanding between the United...

The Al-Shabaab group called the President of the United States, Donald Trump, a “brainless billionaire”, in a new video released on Sunday, reported Africa News. The group’s spokesman said...

The US House of Representatives will today vote on a bill that will slap new sanctions against Iran. The legislation, whose primary target is Russia, will also punish Iran...

Parliamentarians in Iran have set up a commission to counter measures against the fresh sanctions imposed by the US on Tehran. Officials in the Islamic Republic are irritated by...

A federal judge in Michigan on Monday halted the deportation of more than 1,400 Iraqi nationals detained during immigration sweeps across the United States last month, the latest legal...

Israel, which has played a precarious role in the Syrian war since 2011, is furious to learn that the future of the conflict is not to its liking. The...

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Monday his government would keep up a blockade of Qatar by four Arab states over charges it supports terrorism, in defiance of...

US President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, Jason Greenblatt, is heading to Jordan for talks about the Mideast peace process after meetings in Israel, a senior administration official said...

The latest ceasefire in south-west Syria, negotiated by the United States and Russia, is a clear reflection of increasing US-Russian cooperation in the country. Whilst this is a welcome...

Staff at the Israeli Embassy in Jordan are returning to Tel Aviv, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced today, they include the injured security guard who...

On 5 July, right wing counter extremism think tank the Henry Jackson Society, released a report citing Saudi Arabia as the foremost promoter of Islamic extremism in the Muslim...

China became the largest investor in the Arab region in 2016 with investments worth $29.5 billion. Beijing surpassed the US and the UAE and now holds 31.9 per cent...

Analysts have said that the latest remarks by US officials regarding the Syrian regime of President Bashar Al-Assad suggests that Washington is taking a stricter line as a result...