At the 2012 opening of Trump Towers in Istanbul, real estate mogul Donald Trump sang the praises of Tayyip Erdogan, telling a mostly Turkish audience that their leader, prime...

US State Secretary Mike Pompeo told Iraq’s prime minister Tuesday to enact reforms and tackle corruption amid anti-government protests, reports Anadolu Agency. In a statement, State Department spokeswoman Morgan...

The US has an “eye on” deceased Daesh leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s third-in-command, President Donald Trump said Tuesday, reports Anadolu Agency. “His third has got a lot of problems...

Around 10,000 Daesh detainees and their families in nearby camps in northeastern Syria present a big security risk, a senior State Department official said on Tuesday, even though the...

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas’s silence would be preferable to the ceremonial appropriation of the Palestinian anti-colonial struggle. On the 15th anniversary of Yasser Arafat’s death, or possible murder,...

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad said yesterday that his army had lost nearly 100,000 soldiers during the eight-year war. In an interview with RT, Al-Assad said that the Syrian soldiers...

A current has swept throughout the Levant from a subtly-felt but well recognised influence. From the protests in Iraq and Lebanon to the Sunni insurgents and opposition groups in...

Germany does not know the identities of seven suspected Daesh members Turkey is planning to deport back to Berlin, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday. The German spokesman said: “We...

The US called upon the Iraqi government on Monday evening to end the violence against protesters on the nation’s streets. The call came after the killing of hundreds of...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said yesterday that the US plans to keep troops in Syria under the pretext of protecting the country’s oil fields is “tantamount to robbery”....

President Hassan Rouhani said on Monday Iran would regain access to the international arms market later next year if it stuck to its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers...

Uber’s chief executive said on Monday the murder by Saudi Arabia, a major investor in his company, of journalist Jamal Khashoggi last year could not be excused and that...

Three bombs exploded in Qamishli in northeast Syria on Monday, killing five people and wounding 26 in the city, which is largely-controlled by Kurdish fighters, security forces said, reports...

The aggressive manner with which Saudi Arabia pursues its critics came to light with the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi last year in Istanbul. It was hoped that the...

US federal prosecutors have charged three Saudi nationals with student visas of smuggling weapons from America to Saudi Arabia. The case is the second in under a week where...

US President Donald Trump has urged Iran to turn over a former FBI agent who went missing in the country during an unauthorised CIA mission in 2007, offering a...

Iraq has not known stability since the 2003 US invasion, the overthrow of the tyrant Saddam Hussein, and the entry of traitors on the back of American tanks and...

Yahya Al-Saud, Jordanian MP and chairman of Palestine Committee in Jordanian Parliament, has called for Amman not to accept a US request to extradite freed female Palestinian prisoner Ahlam Al-Tamimi, Al-Resalah newspaper...

Declaring property rights over Syrian oil is the real occupation, Turkey’s ruling party spokesman said Saturday. “Those who say that they will transfer the resources of the Syrian people...

The Interior Minister of Libya’s internationally recognised government accused Russia of fueling the ongoing war with mercenaries Sunday and urged the US to increase efforts to resolve the crisis....

Iran’s Foreign Ministry said on Sunday that the whereabouts of former FBI agent Robert Levinson, missing since visiting Iran’s Kish Island in 2007, remain unknown, and it denied a...

Iran has the capacity to enrich uranium up to 60%, a spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) said on Saturday, far more than is required for...

A barrage of 17 rockets landed near a military base housing US forces in northern Iraq, reported by Anadolu Agency. General Noman al-Zawbae, commander of Nineveh Operations Command, described...

Turkey will not leave Syria until other countries pull out, President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as saying on Friday, and Ankara will continue its cross-border offensive against Kurdish fighters...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday NATO must grow and change or risk becoming obsolete, a day after French President Emmanuel Macron said the alliance was...

While the death of Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi represents one of the most successful anti-terrorist actions in recent history and was a severe blow to Daesh, his death is rather...

Leaked footage purportedly shows a weapons cargo, including US-made vehicles being shipped into the Saudi-controlled Yemeni port city of Aden last week. The secretly filmed footage appears to show...

US Democratic Representative Andy Levin visited the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, during which he observed the Israeli government denying local residents access to water. The trip included a...

Following the resignation of UNRWA chief on Wednesday, Israel renewed its calls for the humanitarian agency to be shut down and end its support for Palestine refugees. The Israeli...

Screams of agony became the norm, his own as well as thousands of others. And so did the deafening silence. For three years, Omar AlShogre, 24, was confined in...

A US-led naval coalition yesterday officially launched a mission from its base in Bahrain to protect shipping in the Gulf region following a series of attacks on ships and...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that the United States is not fulfilling its obligations in the Syrian deal, i.e. to take Kurdish fighters out of the...