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The United States has resettled 166 Syrians since the outbreak of the Syrian Revolution in 2011, a State Department official said on Thursday. Marie Harf, US state department deputy...

US envoy to the United Nations Samantha Power said yesterday that Washington is open to any UNSC resolution but it must "do no harm" to Israel and at the...

Top Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat met in Washington with US Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday to discuss Palestinian-Israeli relations and the latest developments in the region after...

The US and Israel discussed plans for mutual cooperation in the battle against the Islamic State (IS), this is as part of the Washington's plan to build an international...

US Secretary of State John Kerry today asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stop the appropriation of 4,000 dunams of Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank due...

Egyptian media reported that Assistant US Secretary of State Thomas Caterman met on Monday with the Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri in Cairo. Ambassador Rakha Hassan, Egyptian deputy foreign...

Senior Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Zahar said on Monday that the United States is a partner to the Israeli occupation and its crimes committed in the Gaza Strip. Speaking to...

Turkish authorities summoned the US charge d'affaires in Ankara yesterday over reports suggesting Washington is spying on Turkish officials, a spokesperson of the Turkish government said. Deputy Turkish Prime...

More than one hundred university professors in New York City have signed an open letter, which was published on Monday, to administrators throughout the City University of New York...

Did the bomber pilots of the United Arab Emirates and Egypt really act without Washington's consent when they bombed Libya? It's extremely unlikely. The Americans have a clear motive...

A U.S. Congressional delegation arrived Monday in Cairo for talks with senior Egyptian officials, the second visit by a U.S. Congressional delegation to the Egyptian capital within a week,...

The Russian foreign ministry has expressed concern over the recent decision by the US to authorise surveillance flights over Syria, a statement said on Friday. The spokesman of the...

Washington called on the Houthis – an insurgent group in Yemen – on Friday to dismantle their camps and withdraw from Amran, accusing them of seeking to undermine the...

Washington has imposed new sanctions on Iranian individuals, corporations and foundations allegedly linked to the nuclear program, statements by the US government said Friday. The statements, issued simultaneously by...

The militant group ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham) controls a huge swathe of territory straddling Iraq and Syria. The human rights abuses they have committed have...

The UN Security Council condemned the acts of the Houthi group in Yemen and threatened to implement sanctions against it over its attempts to bring down the current regime....

Iranian Parliamentary Speaker Ali Larijani accused some countries of secretly supporting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (IS) adding that the American air strikes on IS positions lack...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas recently announced that he plans to make a surprise political decision during his meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry, who was visiting the...

The US is seeking to form a regional alliance to fight the Islamic State (IS), the Anadolu news agency reported. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said yesterday during the...

Iraqi's Prime Minister-designate Haider Al-Abadi yesterday "stressed the need to dry up terrorists resources in Iraq and the region in order to maintain stability as Iraq is currently facing...

US President Barack Obama granted permission to organise reconnaissance sorties over the Syrian territory to gather intelligence on the Islamic State (IS)'s locations there, US media outlets quoted American...

Conflicting reports have emerged claiming the United States is secretly cooperating with the Syrian regime of President Bashar Al-Assad to strike Islamic State (IS)'s sites in the country, Al-Araby...

US President Barack Obama said yesterday uprooting "cancer" like ISIS will not be quick and easy. He added that the US will build a coalition to fight the "barbaric...

"We believe Egypt and the United Arab Emirates carried out air strikes in Libya", Pentagon spokesman, Rear Admiral John Kirby said yesterday. The Anadolu news agency reported Kirby saying:...

The head of US Africa Command (USAFRICOM) General David M Rodriguez has said that the US does not support the idea of outside forces intervening in Libya. In a...

What is happening in Iraq is a tragedy the country has not seen for the past 20 years, spokeswoman of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Natalia Prokopchuk said....

The US State Department refused on Monday to comment on a New York Timesreport, which quoted senior American officials as saying that Egypt and the UAE were behind the...

The UN Human Rights Council has named the third member to join the Independent International Commission of Inquiry to investigate purported violations of international humanitarian and human rights laws...

Qatari mediation efforts helped to secure the release of American journalist, Peter Theo Curtis, who was kidnapped in Syria by al-Qaeda linked Jabhat Al-Nusra two years ago, Anadolu news...

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) announced on Friday that Iraq's Kurdistan region has received 700,000 displaced Iraqis who were forced to leave their homes to escape...

The Syrian conflict is a major threat to international peace and security and has contributed to the spread of terrorism, Secretary-General of the UN Ban Ki-moon said yesterday. In...

A senior US official said yesterday that the US Department of Defence plans to send an additional 300 US soldiers to Iraq at the request of the State Department....