The Israeli organisers of this year’s Eurovision feared that some of the competitors, under pressure from the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, might inject politics into their performances. In...

British band Primal Scream’s frontman Bobby Gillespie has called Madonna a “total prostitute” for performing at Eurovision 2019 in Israel. Gillespie has strongly criticised the US singer for choosing...

The flag display, briefly caught on the live TV relay of the 41-country contest, marked the only "disruption" of the show

Air strikes stopped in northwest Syria over the past 12 hours, rescuers said on Saturday, as Turkey-backed rebels arrived at the fronts to help fight the army and its...

A senior Saudi official denied the authorities posed any threat to prominent Palestinian human rights campaigner Iyad al-Baghdadi, who has said the Norwegian security services warned him of a...

The Palestinian problem finds its roots in the downfall of the Ottoman Empire, one of a series of catastrophic map-changing events associated with the First World War. The vectors...

Headlines this week about an apparent rift between top British and US military officers over Iran were a reminder of just how embedded the UK’s military is within the...

During the 1967 Six Day War, the West Bank and East Jerusalem were occupied by Israel. Fifty-two years later this brutal military occupation remains in place, with the West...

Palestinian citizens of Israel – who number around 1.8 million people and amount to just over 20 per cent of Israel’s population – are often ignored by the broader...

Calls to boycott this year’s Eurovision song contest have focused on Israel’s brutal occupation. Mercury Prize-winning rock band Wolf Alice, for example, gave their backing by evoking images of...

Mother Bengal tiger lies with her new born three cubs

The United Nations said Friday the potential of a full scale battle in Syria’s Idlib province could result in the worst humanitarian catastrophe of the 21st century, Anadolu Agency reports....

The Spanish football club Real Madrid is currently in preliminary negotiations with the Egyptian Liverpool star, Mohamed Salah, France’s Canal+ reported yesterday. “Concerning Real Madrid and its reconstruction, after Hazard, Zinedine...

Germany today voted to define the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement as anti-Semitic, becoming the first major European parliament to do so. The German parliament – known as...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi yesterday ratified a loan agreement between his government and Germany, under which Cairo would borrow €102.5 million ($114.6 million) from Berlin. “Under the presidential...

An English football club was funded by a $3.8 million loan from Osama Bin Laden’s family. The revelation was made during a High Court hearing over a battle for...

A Saudi newspaper owned by one of the king’s sons has called for military strikes on Iran, as world leaders plea for de-escalation of tension in the region. Iran...

A small plane crashed south of Dubai airport killing three Britons and one South African, Reuters reported the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority saying in a statement yesterday. The four-seat...

Spanish police have arrested 11 people suspected of being part of a human trafficking cell which transports migrants across the Mediterranean Sea in small boats that are ill-equipped for...

China has called on Turkey to support its fight against militants operating in China’s restive far western region of Xinjiang, following criticism from Turkey about rights in a part...

The United States on Thursday terminated Turkey’s preferential trade treatment that allowed some exports to enter the country duty-free, but it has halved its tariffs on imports of Turkish...

The chairmen of three congressional committees on national security on Thursday pressed US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to explain whether a Trump administration arms control report was politicized...

The youth comprises 15.8% of the 82 million people living in Turkey, the country’s statistical authority announced on Thursday, Anadolu Agency reports. There are 12.97 million people aged 15-24...

The leader of the Iranian Islamic Revolution does not want a war with America. At the same time, however, he does not want to negotiate. We can sum up...

Germany has suspended its military training programmes in Iraq because of growing regional tensions, a defence ministry spokesman said yesterday. The spokesman said Germany has indications of potential attacks...

Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said yesterday that the Russian president did not receive any assurances from the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo regarding Iran, Anadolu reported. “So...

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki yesterday condemned on Wednesday the “racist” and “xenophobic” attack on his country’s Ambassador to Israel Marek Magierowski. On Twitter Morawiecki wrote: “I am very worried...

British doctors and humanitarians have launched a pioneering field manual to help medics in Syria and other warzones treat catastrophic injuries in children caused by explosive weapons, Reuters reports....

Senior US lawmakers introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives on Wednesday expressing concern over US-Turkish relations and calling for the cancellation of Ankara’s F-35 fighter jet purchases...

Tehran has started suspending some of its obligations under the nuclear deal “in fulfilment of the decision of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council,” Iranian media reported on Wednesday. “The...

At least 50 irregular migrants lost their lives on their way to Europe through Turkey in 2019, according to data compiled by Anadolu Agency. Most of the deaths took...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday that Turkey and Iraq have signed a mutually beneficial military cooperation and trust agreement after day-long meetings in the capital Ankara, Anadolu reports....