China has called for the immediate lifting of sanctions imposed on Iran amidst its fight against the novel coronavirus, Xinhua reported yesterday. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang accused...

Oil prices fell on Monday as an emergency US Federal Reserve interest rate cut failed to calm global financial markets from the panic caused by the rapid spread of...

US Senator Bernie Sanders, one of two Democratic candidates in the race to run in the upcoming presidential elections, has criticised his country’s support for the United Arab Emirates...

Twenty-one new cases of the coronavirus in Lebanon were reported Monday, raising the total number of cases to 120, according to the country’s health minister, Anadolu Agency reports. Hamad...

The Russian Foreign Ministry on Monday slammed the US sanctions against Iran as “anti-human,” as the country battles the deadly coronavirus, Anadolu Agency reports. The sanctions create a strong barrier...

Given the Palestinians’ rejection of Donald Trump’s “deal of the century”, there is talk about “buying” their approval with financial inducements and privileges. Political pressure will be exerted until...

The Iraqi Hezbollah brigades on Saturday denied that any of its members had been wounded in the attacks launched by US fighters Friday on its sites on Friday. On...

Vice President of Sudan’s Transitional Sovereign Council, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, on Saturday arrived in the Egyptian capital Cairo to discuss “bilateral security and economic relations”. Sudan News Agency (SUNA) yesterday...

Iran summoned a Swiss envoy in Tehran, who represents American interests, after Washington accused Iran for recent attack that killed two US service members in Iraq, Anadolu Agency reports. Ambassador...

Three American troops and several Iraqi forces were wounded on Saturday in the second major rocket attack in the past week on an Iraqi base north of Baghdad, US...

President Hassan Rouhani said Iran’s fight against the coronavirus was being “severely hampered” by US sanctions, as state television reported that the death toll from the illness rose on...

“I am a Zionist. You don’t have to be a Jew to be a Zionist,” current Democratic Presidential candidate, Joe Biden, said in April 2007, soon before he was...

The US Army’s central command chief, General Kenneth McKenzie Jr., considers that the strike by his country’s forces in Iraq was a clear message that the US will not...

Five months of marathon and farcical negotiations under US auspices have failed to produce a solution to the crisis surrounding Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam on the River Nile. The...

A Brown University committee has issued a formal recommendation that the Ivy League university divest from “any company that profits from the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land”. According to...

The US Congress has passed a resolution limiting President Donald Trump’s power to wage war or take military action against Iran. The House of Representatives joined the Senate in...

Iran, asked today, Thursday, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for immediate financial assistance to tackle the novel Coronavirus, in conjunction with the authorities’ announcement of 75 new deaths, in...

United Nations (UN) secretary-general, António Guterres, yesterday announced the designation of Stephanie Turco Williams as the new Acting Special Representative in Libya and the Head of the United Nations...

US Department of Defence spokesperson, Jonathan Hoffman, said that Turkey can only receive the American made Patriot air defence system after it returns the Russian S-400 defence system. Hoffman...

A Turkish employee at the US Consulate in Istanbul should be acquitted on charges of espionage and trying to overthrow the government, but should still face a prison sentence...

Influential Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr accused US President Donald Trump of spreading the coronavirus among America’s opponents. In a tweet, Al-Sadr said: “Trump … You and your likes...

The international community has stated repeatedly that it will not accept any changes to issues related to Palestine upon which global consensus has been reached. The unilateral decision taken...

The US Secretary of State called on Tuesday for Iran to release American prisoners being held in its jails, CNN has reported. Mike Pompeo made his comment after reports...

If any country which claims to be a democracy, its potential prime minister declares that the votes of a significant minority are not part of the democratic ‘equation’, they...

An Israeli general said that “the death of former President Hosni Mubarak is a good occasion to remember an Arab leader who understood the meaning of peace with Israel,...

Violent clashes broke out yesterday between Yemeni security and Emirati-backed forces who tried to storm the headquarters of the Special Security in the Yemeni governorate of Taiz, south the...

An Iraqi military base, which houses US forces, was targeted by rockets on Wednesday, Anadolu reports. Al-Taji military airbase, located 85 kilometres (some 53 miles) north of capital Baghdad,...

The US State Department changed its standard description of East Jerusalem Palestinians from “Palestinian residents” of the city to “Arab residents” or “non-Israeli citizens” in an annual global human...

An Israeli defence company revealed on Monday that its American subsidiary had been awarded a US Air Force contract worth up to $471.6 million. Israel-based Elbit Systems, a company...

The US Central Command (CENTCOM) has announced it will deploy missile defence systems in Iraq over fears of further Iranian retaliatory attacks following the assassination by America of Iranian...

A Lebanese man charged with conspiracy to violate US export laws by sending drone equipment to Hezbollah, pleaded guilty in a federal court in Minnesota on Monday. Issam Hamade...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday that he had asked his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to jointly manage oil fields in Syria’s Deir Ez-Zor. “Deir Ez-Zor is another...