French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday demanded an explanation from Iran after the arrest last month of Franco-Iranian dual national Fariba Adelkhah, an incident that complicates Paris’ efforts to...

The two-week exercise will be financed by US while Ethiopia provides venues and platforms for the drills. The contributing countries to the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) –...

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday he would speak to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump this week as part of a...

The war in Yemen is entering its fifth year with no solution in sight. Every day thousands of people, including women and children, are injured and maimed. According to...

The US House of Representatives has accepted an amendment to the National Defence Authorisation Act which would end the 32-year arms embargo imposed on Southern Cyprus. Since 1987, the...

US President Donald Trump has doubled down on racist remarks he made during the weekend about a number of pro-Palestinian Democrat Congress members by insisting that they needed to...

Islamic Jihad yesterday criticised Lebanese Labour Minister Kamil Abu Sleiman after his decision to tighten restrictions imposed on foreign workers, including Palestine refugees, Jordan’s Assabeel newspaper reported. “The decision...

Palestinian Authority (PA), PLO and Fatah President Mahmoud Abbas stressed yesterday that relations with US will not be resumed unless Washington’s positions regarding Jerusalem are changed, Quds News Net...

The United States has granted a visa to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to attend a UN meeting in New York this week, two sources familiar with the...

Iran is ready to hold talks with the United States if Washington lifts sanctions and returns to the 2015 nuclear deal it quit last year, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani...

US President Donald Trump has the authority to waive sanctions on Turkey for its purchase of Russian air defence systems and should find a “middle ground” in the dispute,...

The Supreme State Security Prosecution in Egypt has decided to imprison an American woman of Egyptian origins, Reem Mohammad Al-Dessouki, for 15 days on charges of joining a banned...

Iranian President, Hassan Rouhani said his country’s foreign debt has fallen by 25 per cent to $9.5 billion down from $12.4 billion reported more than two years earlier. Iran’s...

The European Union (EU) said on Saturday it was supporting Iraq’s recent proposal to hold a regional conference in the context of rising tensions between the United States (US)...

Tehran rejected any negotiations with Washington until it lifts sanctions

Iran’s breaching of caps on its uranium enrichment after the United States pulled out of world powers’ nuclear deal with Tehran was “a bad reaction to … (a) bad...

The European Union fully backs Iraq’s efforts to de-escalate growing tensions between the United States and Iran because conflict will have dire consequences for all sides, EU foreign policy...

 Oil prices increased yesterday as US oil producers in the Gulf of Mexico cut their production by more than half due to a tropical storm, while tensions continue to...

Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko yesterday stressed that any prospective political reconciliation in Syria should include the withdrawal of foreign troops from the country. In a press release,...

The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) yesterday expressed its concern about the deployment of the advanced Russian air defence system, the S-400, to Turkey. An unnamed NATO official told...

Jason Greenblatt, the United States’ (US) Middle East envoy for peace, has announced that he has held meetings with leaders and officials within the Palestinian Authority (PA) “in their...

Saudi Arabia has been a major source of division within Washington since the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The White House has been at complete odds with Congress over...

Former Israeli Prime Minister and election candidate Ehud Barak held a multi-million-dollar business partnership with Jeffrey Epstein, the US billionaire who was this week arrested for sex trafficking underage...

US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib took a swipe at American lawmakers who are seeking to criminalise the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, in a tweet denouncing the move as...

First shipment of Russian S-400 missile defence system hardware to Ankara started today, Turkey’s National Defence Ministry said. “First batch of equipment of S-400 missile defence system, which is procured to meet...

The House of Representatives approved an amendment to the annual defence spending bill Thursday to halt US support for Saudi Arabia-led military operations in Yemen, Anadolu reports. Momentum has...

Russia on Thursday said there is a “significant progress” in the Syrian peace process, Anadolu reports. Speaking at a news conference Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said she expects...

Three Iranian vessels tried to block a British-owned tanker passing through the Strait of Hormuz, but backed off when confronted by a Royal Navy warship, Britain said on Thursday, Reuters reports....

US President Donald Trump discussed efforts to check Iran’s “malign action in the region,” the White House said Thursday, Anadolu Agency reported. The leaders discussed the issue, as well as...

Lebanese President Michel Aoun said he regrets that the US has imposed sanctions on members of Hezbollah. On Tuesday, the US Treasury Department announced it has imposed new sanctions...

For decades now, the Palestinians have been looking for an ‘honest peace broker’ to bring an end to their suffering through a negotiated peace agreement with Israel. However, the...

Hamas rejected numerous US invitations to attend the Manama workshop last month where the long awaited “deal of the century” was launched. The Palestinian resistance group revealed that it...