The Sudanese are not generally known for peddling conspiracy theories. However, during this severe economic crisis many elaborate claims and counter claims about the causes and consequences of the...

Senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat today blasted US envoy Jason Greenblatt for criticising Palestinian protests in the Gaza Strip against the decades-long Israeli occupation. “The US administration’s defence of...

The UK, US and France are backing the civil defence forces in Syria to attack civilians, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad said in an interview with the Mail on Sunday...

The number of illegal settlers living in occupied East Jerusalem has reduced to ten per cent while Palestinians make up 61 per cent of the area’s population, a study...

An opinion poll published on Sunday shows deep divisions between Israelis and American Jews, particularly in relation to President Donald Trump, highlighting the growing rift between the world’s two largest Jewish...

Afghanistan has accepted an offer from the United Arab Emirates to boost its presence in training Afghan forces fighting Islamist insurgents, senior government officials said, as Kabul seeks to...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday criticised US “unilateralism” in withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal and said he appreciated efforts by China and Russia to maintain the agreement. “The US...

A US commando was killed and four others were wounded on Friday when they came under fire in Somalia during an operation against al-Shabaab militants, the US military said....

OPEC is likely to reject a request by Iran to discuss US sanctions against Tehran at this month’s meeting of the oil producer group, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters....

Pro-Israeli campaigners appear to be hunting for another scalp in their assault against free speech. The victim this time is a tenured Columbia university professor whose crime was nothing...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said the military operation in Syria is a unique opportunity to test and train Russian troops. Speaking on television, Putin said that attacking extremists in...

Iran criticised a US request that Saudi Arabia pump more oil to cover a drop in Iranian exports and predicted OPEC would not heed the appeal, setting the stage...

Senator Bernie Sanders, who ran against Hilary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, shared a new video in solidarity with Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip yesterday. “The voices...

A day before US President Donald Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal, one of his senior officials phoned Saudi Arabia to ask the world’s largest oil exporter to help keep...

At least ten civilians were killed and dozens wounded in an airstrike conducted by the Assad regime hit Idlib Province in north-west Syria yesterday. The Soviet-made Su-22, still kept...

US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and advisor Jared Kushner has had “a very brief and stormy meeting” with Kuwait Ambassador to America, Sheikh Salem Abdullah Al Sabah, during which...

Kurdish militias in the Syrian city of Manbij have rejected a joint US-Turkish roadmap that would see Turkish soldiers responsible for administering the area. “We will not accept that,”...

The implications of Israel’s use of deadly force against unarmed Palestinian protesters has been a thorny issue for Americans of late. The brutal tactics deployed by American police forces...

The UK continues to believe that the nuclear deal with Iran is the best way to prevent it from getting nuclear weapons, British Prime Minister Theresa May said Wednesday....

The European Investment Bank on Wednesday said it could not ignore US sanctions on Iran, rejecting the EU executive plan that it to do business there in an effort to...

June 5 is an ominous and sad day in modern Arab history that will continue to be so throughout history. On this day in 1967, Israel with direct and...

Qatar’s hope of becoming a full member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) was dashed today, undermining Doha’s long term strategic ambition. Responding to yesterday’s overture by Qatar’s...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has issued a fresh warning about legislative efforts to “silence criticism of Israel”, after Members of Congress introduced the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act last...

The US government has asked Saudi Arabia and a number of other OPEC members to increase their production by around one million barrels a day, Bloomberg reported yesterday, citing...

A Israeli minister revealed that an alliance between Arab and Western countries as well as Israel may be formed against Iran “if Tehran does not bow to the demands...

Air Iran will receive 11 new passenger planes this year despite the US’ withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal and the reimposition of economic sanctions on Tehran, Iranian IRNA...

When a Polish MP first announced that mysterious planes were landing in the night in a forest, eyebrows were raised, eyeballs swung upwards, and some MPs even broke out...

A Russian troop deployment in Syria near the Lebanese border this week caused friction with Iran-backed forces including Hezbollah which objected to the uncoordinated move, two non-Syrian officials in the regional...

Turkey and the US have agreed on a plan to remove Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) from the northern Syrian city of Manbij. The agreement was reached during a...

The US-led coalition fighting Daesh in Syria may have committed war crimes, a report by Amnesty International has found. According to the rights group, there was “a strong prima...

While Israel’s snipers continue to extract Palestinian lives from the Great Return March protests, it has also failed to sell its usual narrative to media outlets, causing US Ambassador...

US Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, has lambasted the media for its “biased” coverage of the Great March of Return in Gaza. Friedman told journalists to “keep your mouths...