A White House official has said the U.S. is monitoring reports that Daesh has used chemical weapons against Kurdish forces in Iraq. The U.S. is currently investigating whether Daesh...

Turkey and the United States have agreed to prevent the Syrian Democratic Union Party (PYD) from entering areas freed from Daesh in northern Syria, Turkish diplomatic sources revealed. PYD...

The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has revised its forecast for global oil demand in 2015 amid market turmoil stirred by financial crisis in Greece and China....

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif yesterday accused Israel of playing a dangerous game against the Iranian nuclear project, calling on the Middle East to “cooperate in order to...

The dollar may cease to be the global reserve currency if US lawmakers walk away from the Iran nuclear deal, Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday. “That is...

The U.S. maintained Tuesday that it does not view efforts to clear Daesh from the northern Syrian border as a bid to create a “safe zone.” “We’ve been very...

The Obama administration advised a New York judge that approving millions of dollars in damages to the families of Americans killed in Palestinian attacks could imperil the Palestinian government....

It is always difficult to judge the impact of direct action by civil society, but a series of emails from Hillary Clinton when she was US Secretary of State...

The US said Thursday that it is “consulting closely” with Russia on its future policy for war-torn Syria. “As much as we can find common ground in ending the...

Oil prices should remain lower for a longer period of time to allow market rebalancing, a report by investment bank Goldman Sachs said late on Thursday. “The search for...

One of the less-publicised victims of the 2003 invasion of Iraq was the country’s electrical grid. This infrastructure has been damaged further by the continued unrest in the country;...

US President Barack Obama has signalled out Israel as the only country in the world to oppose Iran’s nuclear deal. In a speech at the American University in Washington...

Russia and the United States have agreed to join efforts in the fight against Daesh, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Wednesday. Lavrov’s remarks came after a meeting with...

It will take six to nine months to lift the sanctions on Iran once the country meets the conditions in the agreement on nuclear energy made with world powers,...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has called on the United States not to give too much attention to the Iranian nuclear deal at the expense of the Palestinian cause,...

The Zionist Organisation of America (ZOA), one of the oldest Israel advocacy groups in the United States, has claimed that the fatal arson attack on a Palestinian home in...

The US Treasury Department imposed sanctions on seven overseas companies and four individuals suspected of providing energy products to the Syrian government of Bashar Assad on Monday. Sanctioned companies:...

The US directly stated Tuesday that it would protect its nascent force of Syrian rebels from Syrian government attacks. “What we are trying to convey is that we’ll also...

The US delivered five M1A1 Abrams Tank turrets to Egypt, as part of Washington’s continued support for the Egyptian authorities, the US embassy in Cairo revealed yesterday. In a...

A senior US delegation is scheduled to arrive in Israel early in September to discuss strengthening intelligence cooperation between Tel Aviv and Washington. A senior official in the delegation...

This week, Doha is hosting US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov. Their visit is being made after the signing of the nuclear agreement...

The Egyptian media yesterday misquoted US Secretary of State John Kerry as saying that the Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organisation. In a press conference with Egyptian Foreign Minister...

The United States announced on Monday that it will defend Syrian opposition fighters who received support through the US training and armament programme with airstrikes against any attacks by...

Russia has warned that the US’s decision to back Syrian rebels will bring more chaos and instability to Syria and the entire Middle East. “Moscow has repeatedly underlined that...

The Iranian nuclear deal has torn the Jewish community in the US apart with one camp accepting the deal while the other doesn’t, senior community leader said. According to...

BDS in the United States is preparing to launch the widest campaign for the boycott of Israel which will include student councils from 293 American universities and a renowned...

German Ambassador in Cairo HansJoerg Haber yesterday criticised US Secretary of State John Kerry for describing the Muslim Brotherhood “as a terrorist organisation”. “We do not know what Kerry...

John Allen, the retired marine general charged by Obama to coordinate the campaign against Daesh is a man confident of his facts. Fresh from Turkey, which had just agreed...

The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organisations announced on Saturday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address American Jews tomorrow in an attempt to thwart the...

Iran’s representative at the International Atomic Energy Agency has warned the UN watchdog about disclosing its confidential agreements with Tehran to the US Senate. Reza Najafi said that the...

The United States warned Egypt on Sunday that human rights abuses and restricting freedoms can hurt the country’s fight against terrorism. “The success of our fight against terrorism depends...

Egypt and the United States on Sunday resumed strategic dialogue talks after a six-year hiatus, following U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s arrival to the country one day earlier....