Israel's ambassador to Britain, Tzipi Hotovely, has been snubbed by a Zionist youth movement because of the 42 year old's "racist and anti-pluralistic views". The UK-based Noam is affiliated...

Turkey will continue to carefully abide by the decades-old international pact, Montreux Convention, governing the Istanbul Straits leading into the Black Sea, the foreign minister said yesterday. Mevlut Cavusoglu...

Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill are pressing President Biden to become the first US president to acknowledge the 1915 mass killing of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire as...

United Nations human rights experts today urged Switzerland to repatriate two Geneva sisters from a squalid camp in north-eastern Syria five years after the girls were allegedly abducted by...

A 13 year old Syrian refugee has embarked on a remarkable Ramadan challenge to raise funds and awareness of the plight of refugees from Middle Eastern countries and around...

Egyptian pharmaceutical firm Minapharm has agreed to produce more than 40 million doses a year of Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, Reuters reported the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), which markets...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu announced that his country has begun talks to purchase a new batch of Russian-made S-400 missile defence systems. Cavusoglu added that the Turkish administrations,...

The European Union announced on Wednesday that it will continue to fund an education project for Syrian children in Turkey. The project known by its acronym PIKTES — Promoting...

Mehmet Bozdag is a 38-year-old Turkish screenwriter, director and producer. He has become tremendously well-known after producing the widely-celebrated series Ertugrul. Bozdag pays attention to the smallest details in his...

Whistle-blowers never fare very well when trying to shine a light on wrongdoing, and the latest pro-Palestinian group of activists to emerge in Britain appears to be no exception....

Turkey remains opposed to the Muslim Brotherhood being designated a "terrorist" group by Egypt despite a recent push to repair strained ties between the two countries, Reuters reported Foreign Minister Mevlut...

British soldiers that are alleged to have committed crimes against humanity, genocide, torture and war crimes will not be granted safeguards against prosecution, the Tory government has conceded, in a major U-turn...

Turkey and Greece on Monday agreed to hold more confidence-building talks. The Turkish Defence Ministry said on Twitter that the defence ministries of both countries have agreed to hold...

Saudi Arabia yesterday reiterated its call for Iran to engage in the ongoing negotiations over the 2015 nuclear agreement, avoid escalation, and not expose the region's security and stability...

Turkey, Qatar, and the UN have agreed to postpone the Istanbul Conference for the Afghanistan peace process, a joint statement issued today has revealed. The high-level conference hosted by...

Syria was today stripped of its voting rights at the global chemical weapons watchdog by member states after its forces were found to have repeatedly used poison gas during...

Russia's Defence Ministry announced late on Monday that it had killed "up to 200 militants" in Syria during an airstrike on "terrorist facilities" northeast of Palmyra, Russia's Interfax news agency...

Chinese company Sinopec has won a deal to develop Iraq's Mansuriya gas field near the Iranian border, the Gulf state's Ministry of Oil announced yesterday. Last year Iraq cancelled...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appointed a prominent member of Turkey's ruling AK Party, Mehmet Mus, as trade minister today and split the Family, Labour and Social Policies Ministry into...

More than 2,000 retired Israeli officers have sent a letter to US President Joe Biden's administration calling for it not to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal, Anadolu reported yesterday. The officers...

Turkey has been criticised heavily over the past few years for what some see as a series of foreign policy blunders, from its military intervention in northern Syria to...

The war in Afghanistan has been called the most pointless conflict of all time. It is probably the most disastrous military venture launched by the US, Britain and their...

Egypt's Minister of Education, Tarek Shawki, yesterday praised his country's education system saying that it has reached the same level as the education standards in the US and United...

The Turkish Embassy in Algeria has denied allegations on local news websites that it is interfering in the internal affairs of the country, Anadolu has reported. Claims have been...

In Turkey, second only to India in new coronavirus cases, a recent surge has brought active infections to a peak equivalent to nearly one per cent of working-age people,...

Pro-Israel US lawmakers have proposed a bipartisan bill that would provide $30 million over five years to companies that partner with their counterparts in the occupation state. The move...

Four NGOs have filed a criminal complaint in Sweden against members of the Syrian government for deadly chemical weapons attacks in 2013 and 2017, AFP reports. According to the news site,...

Ankara filed a complaint against Riyadh at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over the semi-official Saudi boycott of trading with Turkey, Arabi21 reported yesterday. Reporting the Turkish Sabah newspaper, Arabi21 said that Turkish officials had...

Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman, Saeed Khatibzadeh, said yesterday that the negotiations currently taking place in the Austrian capital, Vienna, between Tehran and the world powers over the 2015 nuclear...

A senior German Foreign Ministry official on Monday offered a cautiously upbeat assessment of "progress" in Vienna-based talks aimed at bringing the US back into the 2015 Iran nuclear...

The Central Bank of Iraq announced on Sunday that Iraq will no longer be included on the British list of high-risk countries for money laundering and the financing of...

Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh visited Ankara last week with a large delegation including five deputy prime ministers, 14 ministers, and the chief of staff to participate in...