The Syrian opposition’s main political body on Tuesday urged armed groups to cooperate with “sincere regional efforts” to reach a ceasefire but said it had not been invited to any...

Russia said on Tuesday that a US decision to ease restrictions on arming Syrian rebels had opened the way for deliveries of shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, a move it said...

Israel is still fuming over the resolution approved last Friday by the United Nations Security Council.

Netanyahu noted that the outgoing US President Barack Obama might try to get the UN Security Council to approve the principle of a Palestinian state

Benjamin Netanyahu is planning to target the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) when US President-elect Donald Trump takes office next month, Yedioth Ahranoth reported on Monday. He made...

Benjamin Netanyahu has been unrelenting in his criticism of the Obama administration over what he condemned as its “shameful” decision not to veto a UN Security Council resolution calling...

The United States has signed a $11.5 million-military cooperation agreement with Egypt, the US Defence Department announced Monday in a statement on its official website. The contract stipulated that...

There is no doubt that the UN Security Council condemnation of Israel on Friday was an important and noteworthy event. True, the United Nations’ main chambers (the Security Council...

Iran has revealed that it is only going to pay half price for 80 new aircraft from America’s Boeing Corporation. Deputy Transport Minister Asghar Fakhrieh Kashan told Iran’s official...

Benjamin Netanyahu has summoned the ambassadors of all UN security council members which backed a resolution condemning Israeli settlements to “personally reprimand” them, Israeli foreign ministry announced on Sunday. The ministry...

The Syrian army and its allies’ liberation of Aleppo, Syria’s second largest city, is a “great and strategic victory”, Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)’s Deputy Commander, General Hossein...

Iran said on Sunday it had negotiated to pay only about half the announced price for 80 new Boeing airliners in an order that the American planemaker had said...

The Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), also known as the PMU or Hashd Al-Sha’abi in Arabic, is receiving “incidental benefit” from coalition airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq, the spokesman for...

Donald Trump’s imminent arrival in the White House has become a source of anxiety and panic. For certain, there are many things to be worried about including his pledge...

The death of King Abdullah in January 2015 gave way to the undeniable rise in power and authority of Saudi Arabia throughout the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)...

As Israel’s colonial ambitions prevail largely unhindered, Jerusalem has been bequeathed with further unwarranted contention. Speaking during a reception at the Israeli embassy in Washington, Ambassador Ron Dermer declared...

A letter written by the man who killed the Russian Ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, has been found by investigators, Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor Harun Kodalak revealed According to...

With 14 votes in favour and one abstention, the UNSC passed a resolution urging an end to illegal Israeli settlements

Russia is not in touch with the incoming US administration over Syria, but Moscow sees Donald Trump as a better partner to negotiate with than Barack Obama, Russian Deputy...

The UN Security Council will vote today on a resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlements after four council members again put forward the measure a day after Egypt...

Russia staged a sombre funeral ceremony on Thursday for Andrei Karlov, the Russian ambassador to Turkey who was shot dead in Ankara by a man who shouted “Allahu Akbar”...

New Zealand, Venezuela, Malaysia and Senegal told Egypt on Thursday that if it did not clarify by midnight whether it planned to call a vote on a draft UN...

The killing of Russia’s ambassador to Turkey on Monday evening might have prompted knee-jerk comparisons to the 1914 assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, but it almost certainly won’t spark...

Israel asked President-elect Donald Trump to apply pressure to avert UN approval of a resolution demanding an end to settlement building after it learned the Obama administration intended to...

The Syrian army said it had retaken complete control of Aleppo on Thursday after the last opposition fighters were evacuated from the battered city, handing President Bashar al-Assad his biggest victory...

Egypt postponed a UN Security Council vote due to take place today on a resolution it proposed demanding an end to Israeli settlement building, diplomats said, after Israel’s prime...

A drone strike, which was most likely conducted by US forces late on Tuesday, has allegedly killed three Al-Qaeda suspects, Lebanon’s the Daily Star reported. The drone targeted a...

Israel has urged the United States to veto a UN Security Council draft resolution calling for an immediate halt to settlement building in occupied Palestine. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad appeared close to victory in Aleppo on Wednesday, but United Nations and rebel officials denied that an operation to evacuate fighters and civilians from the...

Jews and Muslims march together for solidarity against President-elect Donald Trump.

A United Nations internal inquiry released on Wednesday found that a deadly attack on an aid convoy in Syria in September came from an air strike, but it could...

Delta Air Lines Inc removed two men from a plane at London’s Heathrow Airport before takeoff on Wednesday, and one of the men accused the airline of acting on...