Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that the US envoys currently touring the Middle East support Israeli measures on its border with the besieged Gaza Strip, Quds Press reported on Sunday....

There are number of questions raised by the recent visit made by Kushner and Greenblatt to the Middle East, in particular their repeated and prolonged meetings with Israeli officials....

Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the US from the UN Human Rights Commission was an attempt to shield Israel from accountability, but it may have backfired among voters in...

The Syrian army will regain control of the country’s north by force if rebels there refuse to surrender, President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview with Russian television channel...

US-backed forces in control of Syria’s Raqqa city imposed a three-day curfew on Sunday and declared a state of emergency saying Daesh militants had infiltrated the city and planned...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday warned Iran not to pursue nuclear weapons, saying it would face the “wrath of the entire world” if it did so,...

Prominent Western media outlets intensify anti-Erdogan, anti-Turkey publications ahead of Sunday’s election

Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump’s senior adviser, said Washington would likely announce its Middle East peace plan even if Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, angered by US policy so far, chose to...

The Iraqi parliamentary elections in May has predictably been followed by a drawn-out process of complex manoeuvring and negotiations to determine the complexion of the new government. When it...

US envoy to the Middle East Jared Kushner met Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday to discuss Donald Trump’s “deal of the century” and the Israeli-led siege of the Gaza Strip,...

A number of Arab states have been putting pressure on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for him to accept Donald Trump’s “deal of the century”, Quds Net News reported...

Washington has called upon the government of Bahrain to release the Shia opposition leader Ali Salman, who was arrested in 2014, Thenewkhalij.news reported on Friday. Although Salman was sentenced...

People take part in a rally marking World Refugee Day in New York, US

The Turkish government views Fethullah Gulen in the same light as the US regarded Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Ladin, government spokesman Bekir Bozdag said. The remarks came as Ankara...

Read part 1 here When the PLO sailed out of Beirut and into a second exile in Tunisia, its fighters left most of their weapons behind. Israel managed to...

Morocco and Algeria should apply to jointly host the World Cup 2030, King Mohammed VI told Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Moroccan website Le 360 reported that the proposal came...

A Syrian army officer was killed in a US strike on a Syrian army outpost near a US base close to the Iraqi-Syrian border, a commander in the regional...

OPEC scrambled on Thursday to agree on raising oil output, with Saudi Arabia warning of shortages but Iran holding out against a deal amid the prospect of lower exports...

There is a major flaw which is overlooked when discussing the US withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). On one hand it shows the collaborative efforts of...

Denmark’s second largest political party, which has been likened by a former minister to the KKK, has taken US President Donald Trump’s lead and called for his country to...

The United States has conducted 550 targeted drone strikes in Libya, The Intercept reported today. US military engagement in Libya began in 2011 when the Arab Spring uprisings swept...

Moroccan human rights activist Khadija Al-Ryadi has described the US decision to withdraw from the UN Human Rights Council as “arrogant” and “political hypocrisy”. She made her comments in...

The Secretary General of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation has slammed Washington’s decision to withdraw from the UN Human Rights Council. “In making such a decision,”...

The US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, announced on Wednesday that the country was pulling out of the UN Human Rights Council. Trump-appointee Haley accused the council of...

The US has often failed to live up to its own ideals but never before has it systematically rejected long-standing values which, in the eyes of many, has made...

China will maintain normal relations with Iran, the Commerce Ministry in Beijing said on Thursday. Ministry spokesman Gao Feng made the comment when asked at a regular news briefing...

The United States on Wednesday strongly condemned recent attacks on Libyan oil ports by militia loyal to Ibrahim Jathran and called for “all armed actors” to withdraw immediately from...

Generals from Syria, Iran and Russia convened at the joint-intel centre (JIC) inside Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone last week to discuss matters of national security and cooperation. The meeting...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secretly met with the Jordanian King, Abdullah II, on Monday in Amman, Israeli media have revealed. Israeli media linked this secret visit to the...

King Abdullah II of Jordan has met with Jared Kushner, the son-in-law and senior aide of US President Donald Trump, in Amman, Thenewkhalij.org reported on Tuesday. The two apparently...

The US embassy in Baghdad yesterday denied US responsibility for air strikes that killed dozens of Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) fighters near the Syrian-Iraqi border. US Ambassador to Baghdad...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said his country will go ahead with purchasing Russian S-400 missile defence systems, despite the US decision to exclude Turkey from participating in the...