It is a proven fact that if you have good lawyers and clever publicists, you can pretty much avoid responsibility for any criminal action in today’s world. This isn’t...

Iran will not discuss its production quota in the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) as long as US sanctions are imposed on it, the Iranian oil minister said...

America has been putting pressure on a number of Arab states in order to get them vote today in favour of a draft resolution it has introduced at the...

At least 25 civilians were killed and dozens injured on Thursday in a US-led coalition strike on the Daesh-controlled Hejjin district located in Syria’s eastern Deir Ez-Zor province. Local...

Russian Chief of Staff, General Valery Vasilyevich Gerasimov on Wednesday has accused the United States of trying to establish a quasi-state entity for Syrian Kurds that is independent of...

US President Donald Trump told Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan that he didn’t want any problems with the sale of F-35 fighter jets to Ankara, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said...

Dubai’s ruler has resisted efforts by Kuwait to release nearly $500 million in frozen funds at the heart of a money-laundering probe straining relations between the two Gulf allies,...

Is Yemen one step closer to peace?

Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih met with US special representative for Iran Brian Hook in Vienna on Wednesday, sources familiar with the meeting said, reports Reuters. Hook, a senior...

For centuries, the Middle East has cast a long and dark shadow over the legacy of many a statesman wanting to leave his mark on history. Unlike Europeans, the...

US Envoy to the Middle East Peace Process Jason Greenblatt said yesterday that the Palestinian leadership does not have a “vision to improve the lives of the Palestinians”. Posting...

America mourns George Bush Snr -MEMO takes a look at his legacy of war in Iraq

Democratic Senator Ben Cardin is “making a behind-the-scenes push to slip an anti-boycott law into a last-minute spending bill”, reported the Intercept citing “sources familiar with the negotiations”. The...

The US Senate sent a strong message to the Trump administration on Wednesday by supporting a bill that would force Washington to cut its support for the Saudi-led coalition...

Miko Peled’s book Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five is about a grave and cruel injustice carried out by both the US and Israel. Paradoxically, the...

Scores of Libyans protested yesterday against a US air strike on suspected Al-Qaeda militants in the country’s southwestern desert, saying civilians had been targeted, Reuters reported witnesses saying. The US...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani yesterday reiterated his threat to close the strategic Strait of Hormuz, through which almost a third of the world’s oil exports pass. “If the United...

Iranian Air Force Commander has confirmed that they are working on increasing the range of the Force’s missiles. The Iranian Fars News Agency quoted on Tuesday Brig Gen. Aziz...

Palestine has called on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to shoulder its responsibilities towards the Ibrahimi Mosque in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil), according to the...

The United States has made 11 attempts to begin negotiations with Iran in the last two years, all rejected by Tehran, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was quoted as saying...

The parents of an American journalist kidnapped in Syria six years ago appealed on Tuesday for the United States and Syria to work together to find their son and...

US Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats on Tuesday discussed in Cairo ways to reach political compromises in the current Middle East crises, according to Egypt’s presidency, Anadolu Agency...

The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman is “complicit” in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a senator said Tuesday. Senator Lindsey Graham said the de facto ruler of...

The administration of the US President Donald Trump has been working hard to secure the flow of American aid to the security services of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Haaretz...

Evidence of war crimes committed by the Syrian government is the strongest collected since the Nazis were tried in Nuremberg, according to the chairman of Commission for International Justice...

Iranian Foreign Minister Jawad Zarif has said that his country is to oppose and mobilise opposition against a US draft resolution condemning Hamas and other Palestinian resistance factions, Iranian...

It seems that the latest weapon in the hands of the American forces that are pressing US President Donald Trump to take a position in line with American values...

It is easy to lose count of the number of futile challenges made by the Palestinian Authority to Israel since the collapse of the last negotiations led by Former...

World leaders heading home after the weekend G20 might be justified in breathing brief sighs of relief. Unlike at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit two weeks ago, the...

Syria has accused the US-led coalition forces of launching missile strikes on Sunday night against Syrian army positions in the centre of the country, state-run SANA news agency quoted...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Brussels on Monday to discuss Iran and other regional issues, Reuters reports. Pompeo, like Netanyahu, is an...

Egyptian politicians and oppositionists in the United States underestimated the effectiveness of attempts by the regime of the coup leader, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, to influence the position of the...