Europe & Russia

Two Iraqi wheelchair tennis players have withdrawn from an international tournament held in Romania to avoid playing against an Israeli opponent. Nasr Mahdi and Mohammad Al-Mahdi refused to face...

Iraq has agreed to renew a one-year deal to provide Lebanon with fuel for its power plants as Beirut battles what the World Bank has said is the world's...

Swedish authorities yesterday decided to extradite a Turkish citizen who was convicted of fraud to Turkiye. Ankara had asked Interpol to issue a Red Notice for the man. The...

Footage showed the bear wobbling and whining as she sat belly-up in the back of a pick-up truck, after people rescued the visibly-debilitated animal from the forest.

French footballer Paul Pogba has voiced his solidarity with the people of occupied Palestine after the latest Israeli aggression against the besieged Gaza Strip. Pogba, who has recently re-joined...

Turkiye's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has said that his country has started the process of normalising relations with Israel and Egypt, but that this process does not mean that...

Two more ships carrying wheat and corn departed from Ukrainian ports today under a deal to unblock Ukrainian grain exports, Turkiye's National Defence Ministry said. The Belize-flagged ship Sormovsky...

Around 5,000 Russians have purchased Turkish citizenship since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as a way of escaping hard-hitting Western sanctions and gaining economic flexibility. According...

At least 12 million people have fled their homes since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the UN has confirmed. More than five million are refugees in neighbouring countries, while seven...

An alleged member of the Daesh terror group and its 'Beatles' cell made up of British militants was charged with terrorism offences after being arrested upon his arrival in the...

Iran's latest space cooperation project with Russia could give Tehran the capacity to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads in the future, Israeli officials fear. According to the...

Syrian refugee Ahmed Kinjo has this week been honoured by the United Against Sectarian Fanaticism (UASF) for his efforts in countering racism and promoting civil peace and co-existence. UASF's...

Nayef Turaani has never visited the Palestinian town he is from because his family were forced out of it as a resut of the Nakba but he is collating information about its past to keep its memory alive

Morocco and Spain held discussions on Wednesday about enhancing security cooperation, as well as other issues of common interest. The discussions took place in Rabat between the Director General...

Egypt has been witnessing the "unprecedented brutality of the current regime" in the nine years since the Rabaa massacre, the head of the Egyptian Revolutionary Council warned in a letter...

When it was revealed last month that Israel had requested the United States to prevent a new Turkish military operation in northern Syria, it served as a necessary reminder...

The Russian Embassy in Egypt on Tuesday slammed Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid's hypocrisy for attacking Gaza while condemning Moscow's alleged crimes in Ukraine, stressing that Lapid disregards the...

The Jewish Agency might end its physical presence in Russia and start working online and via telephone, a senior official was reported by Israeli media saying yesterday. A meeting took...

Turkiye is expecting Saudi Arabia to deposit up to $20 billion into Turkish treasury bonds and accounts in an effort to boost the economically-struggling country's foreign currency reserves, media reports have...

Israel launched yet another military offensive against the Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip last Friday. The initial target was an apartment in a high-rise residential building in Gaza...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said yesterday that his country defends the "usurped rights of Turkish Cypriots", Anadolu Agency reported. The top Turkish diplomat's statement came during the 13th Ambassadors Conference in...

Join us for a conversation with counterterrorism expert Dr Rizwaan Sabir

A storm seems to be hitting Amnesty International (AI). The international non-governmental organisation has been subject to strong criticisms since the release of its report on 4 August 2022 about the...

A French television channel has apparently censored a significant part of an interview with a journalist who called out Israel's military offensive against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip....

Egypt's prime minister has said that the country is curbing electricity use so that it can export more natural gas and generate foreign currency. Egypt will reduce street lighting,...

Injustice, oppression, arbitrary decision-making, persecution and coercion can all be used to describe what the Palestinian people have been experiencing for a century since the League of Nations imposed...

US embassy officials attended US citizen and rights lawyer Asim Ghafoor's hearing in the United Arab Emirates yesterday, a State Department official said, adding that his next hearing was scheduled...

French President Emmanuel Macron described on Tuesday the controversial referendum which led to a new constitution in Tunisia that grants near total power to the president, as an "important...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Syrian regime President Bashar Al-Assad may hold a phone conversation as suggested by their Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, the pro-government Türkiye newspaper reported....

Twenty civilians, including eight children and two women, were killed in Russian and Syrian air and artillery attacks on north-western Syria in July, according to the Syrian Civil Defence, also known...

Israeli President Isaac Herzog spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday about Russia's attempt to ban the world's biggest Jewish non-profit group, which helps Jews move to Israel,...

Turkey resumed its hydrocarbon drilling operations in the eastern Mediterranean on Tuesday after a two year hiatus, though President Tayyip Erdogan said its new drill ship would operate outside...