Europe & Russia

Officials want to rebrand the country, "Türkiye" as it is the best way to represent the nation, Erdogan says and Anadolu News Agency reports. According to the report, President...

The military has been commissioned to take over operations in the English Channel as Boris Johnson attempts to save his job, reports The Times, following growing pressure on the...

King Felipe VI of Spain has called on Morocco to "walk together" with Spain to "begin to materialize a new relationship" on the basis of "stronger and more solid...

As the UN Security Council marks the 76th anniversary of its first session, discussions on reforming the governmental body continue among many countries. A prominent Turkish expert pointed to...

Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Albania's capital Tirana on Monday, Anadolu News Agency reports. Erdogan was welcomed by Albania's Prime Minister, Edi Rama, with an official ceremony...

Iran, yesterday, sent a French-Iranian academic, Fariba Adelkhah, back to prison for breaking house arrest restrictions. The deputy head of the Iranian judiciary, Kazem Gharibabadi, said that Adelkhah had "unfortunately,...

A French court yesterday charged an Arab named Salah Habib of "supporting the Bashar Assad regime's army and its chemical weapons program in Syria." Le Monde reported that Habib...

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi said yesterday that there is no "power vacuum" Middle East and is no need of a "foreign patriarch." Wang made the comments following a...

Iraq and Lithuania held talks on Sunday to discuss ways of ending the crisis of Iraqi migrants stranded on Belarusian-Lithuanian border, reported Anadolu Agency. Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein...

UK and Egyptian officials vowed Saturday to cooperate on climate change as the current and incoming presidencies of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of...

President Vladimir Putin will host his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi for talks in Moscow next week as Russia tries to help salvage a nuclear deal between world powers and...

Turkey's annual inflation rate will be in single digits by the time presidential and parliamentary elections set for mid-2023 are held, Finance Minister Nureddin Nebati said on Saturday, reported...

Turkey has developed its own intelligence-gathering ship in a move that that could see its maritime and intelligence capabilities increase significantly. In a delivery ceremony at Istanbul's Shipyard yesterday,...

Greece has received a strike from the US after freezing the excavation works of US-owned ExxonMobil and French company Total off the island of Crete in the East Mediterranean,...

Sudan's Sovereign Council, on Thursday, hailed Turkey's supportive stance toward the country and its keenness to strengthen ties between Ankara and Khartoum, Anadolu News Agency reports. The Council issued...

At least 11 fighters from the Islamic State militant group – Daesh – were killed and 20 more were wounded on Thursday in Russian air raids in eastern Syria,...

Pluto Press has published the fourth, and rewritten edition of Paul Roger's "Losing Control: Global Security in the 21st Century". The first edition was published a little while after...

When Somalia's state-run Radio Mogadishu began airing an Italian-language program earlier this month under a new agreement with Italy, it led to an uproar. Somalis both at home and...

Spanish football has come under sharp criticism over its decision to hold the Super Cup tournament in Saudi Arabia, which kicked off yesterday with a match between bitter rivals,...

A German court sentenced a former intelligence officer in Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad's security services to life in prison after convicting him of murder, rape and crimes against humanity in a landmark trial

A French top diplomat said the United Arab Emirates will join a Saudi-French common fund that aimed to provide support to Lebanon, Reuters reports. According to the report, France's Foreign...

The UK's Home Office has assured that it does not plan on sending Syrian refugees and asylum seekers back to Syria, after it rejected one of their asylum applications...

Germany will extend its military mission in Iraq until the end of October, the government announced on Wednesday, and Anadolu News Agency reports. Bundeswehr troops will continue to support...

The economic problems of Turkey can be resolved with justice, the main opposition leader has said, criticising President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for slamming the country's top business group over...

Saudi Arabia surpassed Russia as the OPEC+ group's largest crude oil producer in December, beating the non-OPEC leader that has struggled to ramp up output as the bloc boosts...

Last year, the country Georgia welcomed over 103,500 tourists from the Middle East, representing a 511 per cent year-on-year increase in November, according to statistics released by the Georgian...

France has today arrested a man in connection to the murder of an Iraqi-born engineer, his wife and mother-in-law in 2012. Saad Al-Hilli, his wife Ikbal and her mother...

Aras Amiri, an Iranian employee of the British Council, has arrived back in the United Kingdom after an Iranian court lifted her travel ban over her spying sentence, the...

Egypt's president has criticised Europe for refusing to take in refugees claiming that his own country has taken in millions of people. "I'm talking about huge numbers," he said...

The verdict in a landmark trial for crimes against humanity will be heard tomorrow against a Syrian secret intelligence agent in the town of Koblenz in Germany. Anwar Raslan,...

Lebanese central bank head banned from foreign travel while fraud investigations continue

Fatah has recently rejected a Russian invitation to hold new reconciliation talks, senior member of Hamas' Political Bureau, Musa Abu Marzouq, said yesterday. Speaking to Al-Aqsa TV, Abu Marzouq said:...