A top Turkish official on Friday urged “reasonable statesmen” to push back lobbying groups in Washington which damage Turkish-US ties for the sake of “narrow domestic political interests”, reports...

England’s Premier League club Arsenal star Mesut Ozil on Friday accused Muslims of staying silent over what he called China’s persecution of Uyghurs in Xinjiang. On his Instagram account,...

The quest for accountability in Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s death took a step forward this week with United States lawmakers calling on their intelligence chiefs to publish details about...

Turkey’s ex-premier Ahmet Davutoglu took aim at his former boss Tayyip Erdogan on Friday, saying the country was being held back by a concentration of power, economic crisis and...

Turkey has added the former leader of the Palestinian Fatah party and United Arab Emirates (UAE) ‘fixer’, Mohammed Dahlan, to its most wanted terrorist list, with a $1.7 million...

Israeli lawmakers have expressed relief over the defeat of UK Labour Party in yesterday’s general election as Britain’s minorities prepare for what is expected to be a tumultuous five...

Libyan general, Khalifa Haftar, has reportedly ordered his troops in the Libyan National Army (LNA) to advance onto the capital in a “decisive battle” to take the city, currently...

The US Senate has unanimously passed a resolution yesterday, officially recognising the Armenian genocide committed by the Ottoman government during World War I. Senator Bob Menendez announced on Twitter...

Turkish foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, announced on Thursday in the Moroccan capital Rabat, that “Israel will never achieve its dreams in Palestine.” “Israel will never achieve its dream of...

Ariel Bulshtein, adviser to the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, has announced that Israel has refused to sell weapons to Georgia, at Russia’s request. He also stated a...

Turkey does not accept and strongly condemns the US Senate resolution on Armenian events that “poisons the climate of Turkish-American relations,” the ruling party spokesman said Friday, Anadolu reports....

There are few political enigmas these days – strongmen, yes, but not enigmas. We have US President Donald Trump, who is far from it; we have UK Prime Minister...

Oil market analysts must make sense of a bewildering array of statistics about production, consumption and inventories, compiled and published with varying definitions and degrees of accuracy and timeliness....

The international community is ready to financially support Lebanon once a new government is formed, French foreign minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, said yesterday. “The only condition to financially aid...

Moscow considers US pressure on Turkey over its buying Russian S-400 defense systems “unacceptable,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday, Anadolu reports. Speaking at a news...

Former Turkish prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu, once a close ally to President Tayyip Erdogan, applied on Thursday to establish a breakaway political party which could erode support for Erdogan...

Thousands in Turkey march for Egyptian detainees

The Grand Mufti of Libya has hailed support for the landmark maritime deal struck between the country’s Government of National Accord (GNA) and Turkey yesterday. Grand Mufti Sheikh Sadiq...

Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA) signed on 27 November two documents with Turkey. One deals with security while the other draws out the maritime boundaries between the two...

The chief of staff of the Libyan National Army (LNA), Farag Al-Mahdawi, yesterday announced his forces would sink any Turkish ship approaching the Libyan coast. ”I have an order,...

Turkey has deported two German citizens over links to the Daesh terrorist group, Turkish officials announced on Wednesday, Anadolu reports. An Interior Ministry statement said the extradition process continues...

A US Senate committee voted Wednesday to advance a sanctions bill against Turkey for its anti-terror operation in northeastern Syria and purchase of a Russian missile defense system, Anadolu...

Turkey’s president on Wednesday, Dec. 11, harshly criticized the accused war crimes supporter Austrian writer Peter Handke after he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, Reuters reports. Speaking...

Anti-war campaigners organised a protest yesterday at a Spanish port against the arrival of a Saudi cargo ship believed to be carrying US and Canadian manufactured arms to Yemen....

Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has announced that he is prepared to deploy Turkish soldiers to Libya, should the UN-recognised government make the request. During a televised interview on...

After having temporarily suspended a contribution of $14 million, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands has informed the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees...

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, commented on Wednesday on the UK elections, reiterating its desire to see the British government supporting Palestinian rights. In a statement, a copy...

The Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced today that it had summoned the ambassadors of France, Britain, Germany and Canada to reject a joint statement issued by the four...

A large number of Egyptians and Turkish civil society groups will attend a torchlight march in Istanbul to draw attention to unlawful detentions by the Egyptian regime, reports Anadolu...

The United States on Tuesday barred from entering the country Mohammed al Otaibi, the former Saudi consul general in Istanbul in October 2018, when Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was...

One of Britain’s largest Muslim representative bodies has accused the BBC of “failing to sufficiently report” on Islamophobia within the ranks of the Conservative Party. The BBC, which has...

Israeli authorities have denied Turkish singer Gizem Coskun entry into the occupied city of East Jerusalem, Turkey’s Yunus Emre Institute said today, Anadolu Agency reports. The female singer was...