Turkey’s lira plunged more than 4 per cent against the US dollar on Friday, its biggest one-day fall since a currency crisis took hold in August, raising concerns that...

Hungarian authorities detained a Syrian man on Friday accused of taking part in beheadings in Syria as a member of Daesh, Budapest prosecutors and the European judicial co-operation agency...

Ten civilians were killed when Russian military aircraft conducted a number of airstrikes in opposition-held Idlib on Friday, according to the White Helmets civil-defense agency, Anadolu reports. Russian warplanes...

I had not heard of New Zealand’s 38-year-old prime minster Jacinda Ardern until the recent mosque massacres in Christchurch in which over 50 Muslims attending Friday prayers were attacked...

Despite the fact that Saudi officials thought the sortie in to Yemen would only last a few weeks, we are now in the fourth year of the war on...

Syrian regime attacks in Idlib and Hama have displaced nearly 200,000 civilians over the past five months, the Director of the Syrian Response Coordinators Team, Mohammed Al-Hallaj, said. Al-Hallaj...

The British Ambassador to Lebanon Chris Rampling has affirmed his country’s keenness to provide more support to the Lebanese Armed Forces and to strengthen the joint military and security...

Israeli occupation forces raided a French government-linked cultural centre in East Jerusalem to shut down a Mother’s Day event, reported AFP. According to the report, “an order posted on...

Turkey’s foreign minister on Thursday slammed US President Donald Trump’s tweet on the occupied Golan Heights, Anadolu reports. “The territorial integrity of states is the most fundamental principle of...

France told Iran on Thursday that European efforts to keep a nuclear deal alive did not mean Tehran had a blank cheque to violate the human rights of its...

The United States’ top general on Thursday called Turkey’s plans to obtain Russia’s S-400 missile defense system a “tough issue”, stressing that Washington’s alliance with Ankara is something he...

Nowruz marks the beginning of spring

Kicking off Israeli Apartheid Week, pro-Palestine students at one of the most prestigious universities in London claim they were barred from campus during the Queen’s visit. At least ten...

French sugar company Tereos has been accused of supporting terrorism by supplying artificial sweeteners to Syria that are then used to make weaponry, AFP has reported. Business partners of...

More than 6,000 people were executed in 21 months by the forces of President Bashar Al-Assad at Al-Mezzeh 601 Military Hospital near Damascus, the Syrian Legal Commission (SLC) has...

British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has revealed in an article published by the Jewish Chronicle that the UK government will vote against all Agenda Item 7 resolutions at the...

Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Al-Safadi said yesterday that his country “rejects any change in the status quo of Jerusalem,” Anadolu reported. He made his remarks after a meeting with...

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will discuss the terrorist attack in New Zealand and increasing violence as a result of Islamophobia in its meeting tomorrow. “Turkey, as the...

Famous Egyptian novelist and writer Alaa Al-Aswany is wanted in Egypt for “insulting president, armed forces and judicial institutions,” his publisher revealed on Tuesday. The French publisher Actes Sud...

Members of the US’ Senate yesterday renewed their calls for “punishing those responsible for the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi.” In a joint letter, nine American senators called on...

Lebanese Foreign Minister, Gebran Bassil said the US anticipated Middle East Peace Initiative is known as “deal of the century” “will be born dead” and “will not survive”. Speaking...

The Russian Ambassador to Tehran, Levan Dzhagaryan, yesterday denied media reports claiming Moscow was displeased with the recent visit of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad to Iran saying “we were...

The Palestinian Authority on Wednesday summoned Hungarian ambassador Shaba Rada to protest the opening of a diplomatic trade office in Jerusalem, says Anadolu Agency. In a statement, the Foreign...

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Wednesday Foreign Minister Winston Peters will travel to Turkey to “confront” comments made by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on the killing...

France, one of the main contributors to the fight against Daesh in the Middle East, has received no answers to questions about the US calls for it and others...

The UK government will help lead a review into Palestinian Authority (PA) school textbooks, according to a press release by the Department for International Development. “After calls by the...

Students at more than 30 UK universities are taking action on their campuses today “to protest their institutions’ complicity in Israel’s violations of human rights”, according to a press...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the Algerian people will determine their fate based on their constitution and in line with the principles of international law. during a joint...

The French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian lauded the “great progress” made in southern Libya by Libya’s National Army Chief Marshal Khalifa Haftar, pointing out at the same time...

Russian Defence Minister and President of the Russian Geographical Society (RGO), Sergey Shoigu announced that his country would hand over files related to the restoration of the ancient Syrian...

President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday called on New Zealand to restore the death penalty for the gunman who killed 50 people at two Christchurch mosques, warning that Turkey would...

Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu on Tuesday met Syria’s Bashar al-Assad in the Syrian capital of Damascus, according to Russian Defense Ministry, Anadolu reports. The visit was made on...