Iran has become self-sufficient in gasoline production, Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said on Monday after the inauguration of the third phase of the Persian Gulf Star Refinery in...

There has been more talk recently from the Palestinians, Israelis and Jordanians about the option of a confederation as an alternative to the two-state solution in light of the...

The sight of Arab foreign ministers meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Warsaw was reminiscent of the meeting between the late Yasser Arafat and Netanyahu’s predecessor Yitzhak...

The Israeli cabinet yesterday approved a bill to deduct $138 million from the Palestinian Authority (PA)’s tax revenue in a bid to stop prisoners’ stipends. Israel collects customs duties...

The United States will have to sever its military assistance to the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) battling Daesh if the fighters partner with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad or...

In 2009, then US Vice President Joe Biden came to Munich to “press the reset button” with Russia. A decade later he came again to offer the world better...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Kuwait next month to hold the third round of strategic dialogue between the two countries, Kuwait’s state news agency quoted the...

Germany can take back Daesh fighters captured in Syria only if the suspects have consular access, the interior ministry said on Sunday, playing down the likelihood of Berlin meeting...

US-backed fighters in Syria are poised to capture Daesh’s last, tiny enclave on the Euphrates, the battle commander said on Saturday, bringing its self-declared caliphate to the brink of...

US President Donald Trump said on Saturday the United States was asking European allies to “take back over 800” Daesh fighters captured in Syria and put them on trial....

Iran on Saturday rejected accusations of anti-Semitism levelled against it by US Vice President Mike Pence, saying it respected Judaism but opposed Israel, which Tehran said was acting like...

One particularly frank imperialist described the logic of the hoped-for British patronage of the Zionist movement, as the empire stood on the brink of occupying Palestine in 1917. This...

US Deputy State Department spokesman Robert Palladino has expressed his country’s concern about the escalation of tension in southern Libya. This came in a statement issued yesterday by Palladino...

There are “shared interests” between Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Jordan and Israel, the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday. “The US is building...

Those examining the world looking for the effects of US financial aid would find that its results were not in the best interest of those receiving it. They would...

The United States should keep arming and aiding the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) following the planned US withdrawal from Syria, provided the group keeps up the pressure on...

Germany’s halt in exports to Saudi Arabia is preventing Britain from completing the sale of 48 Eurofighter Typhoon warplanes to Riyadh, and has delayed potential sales of other weapons...

Last week, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that his country is making 24 April a National Day for the commemoration of the Armenian genocide which, it is alleged by...

Hatice Cengiz, the fiancée of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, could have been killed alongside him, a new report has revealed. The Istanbul Security Directorate’s annual report revealed that...

Advisor on international and foreign relations to Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas, Dr Nabil Shaath, said that the Palestinian people will not waiver their national rights in return...

Republican and Democratic members of the US Senate asked the Trump administration on Thursday to tell them more about the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at a Saudi consulate...

US Vice President Mike Pence accused European powers on Thursday of undermining Washington’s crackdown on Iran by trying to break US sanctions against Tehran, in remarks that were likely...

The US military denied on Thursday taking part in a raid on an al Qaeda site in the Libyan city of Ubari, contradicting a statement by a Libyan official, Reuters...

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia, Turkey and Iran had agreed to take unspecified extra steps to clear Syria’s Idlib region of what he called “a hotbed...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu let his guard slip yesterday by announcing that he was intent on starting a war with Iran. The belligerent remark was made by the...

A close ally of US President Donald Trump has been accused of defending the killers of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi during a speech in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)....

The US Senate has proposed a resolution that would ban any deal to exchange US nuclear technology with Saudi Arabia that could assist the Kingdom in making a nuclear...

US President Donald Trump has called on Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar to resign over the “anti-Semitic” tweets affair. Despite apologising for her remarks, Trump said Tuesday during a cabinet...

Russia has decided not to attend the US-led international conference inaugurated yesterday in Polish capital Warsaw. The Russian Foreign Ministry said on social media that the meeting “is a...

MEMO photographer Mohammed Assad had his camera destroyed during Israel's attack on Palestinians during the Great March of Return

European countries tried to pressure the United States to cancel its Middle East conference taking place in Polish capital Warsaw this week. According to Israel’s KAN TV channel –...

US organisation Freedom House has ranked Egypt 126th out of 195 countries when it comes to public freedoms. According to a new report by the organisation based on 2018...