Europe & Russia

Rebuffing controversial statements by France's president about the colonial period in Algeria, the nation's parliament Saturday said that on a single day in 1961, some 300 peaceful Algerians were...

An Iranian appeals court has upheld a one-year prison term for British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on security offences, her lawyer was quoted by an Iranian news website as...

A Turkish trade delegation held talks with officials in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on ways of boosting trade cooperation between the two countries, according to the UAE state...

Breaking a Guinness World Record for the largest GPS drawing ever created, the pair also raised money for charity projects which support asylum seekers

The United Kingdom may consider the purchase of Turkish drones, Turkey's minister of industry and technology revealed yesterday. Speaking to CNN Turk, Mustafa Varank said that "the UK is...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday arrived at the Huber Mansion in Istanbul to meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Anadolu Agency reports. Merkel and Erdogan boarded a golf...

"Little Amal", the 3.5-metre-tall puppet depicting the journey of a Syrian refugee, arrived in the French capital on Wednesday

Comparing grotesque crimes against humanity, while trying to work out which are the worst, is a wretched task. Acts of profound evil have implications well beyond their direct victims,...

The public debate around three high-profile cases related to academic freedom in UK universities has exposed the contradictions and double standards at the centre of this row, the result...

The fact that Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature is welcome news, especially as the Swedish Academy is historically known for lacking in diversity, as if...

A Rome judge yesterday suspended the trial of four senior members of the Egyptian security services citing concerns that there was no certainty they had been formally made aware that they were charged...

On Thursday 7 October, I received a call from the representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR) Middle East office seeking more assistance to alleviate the...

Several hundred Afghan migrants including women, children and a seven-day-old baby have settled in a makeshift tent camp near the border with Croatia, determined to continue their journey to...

Reuters news agency published news a few days ago about Ankara's desire to buy 40 F-16 fighters from the US, as well as purchasing 80 modernization kits to service...

Behind the recent flare-up of tensions between France and Algeria exists a troubled past, in which causes for such tension have been lurking for decades, just awaiting some trigger...

The Turkish president will leave on Sunday for a four-day diplomatic tour to three African countries, diplomatic sources have told Anadolu Agency. Recep Tayyip Erdogan has officially visited 28...

The United States backs Turkey's $6B F-16 jet deal request as Turkey sent a letter of request on 40 F-16s and 80 modernisation kits, Daily Sabah reports. According to...

The Israeli Defence Minister is still insisting on forming an official investigation committee to look into the case of the German submarine deal, which revolves around suspicions that close...

The staff published an open letter in the Guardian, protesting against contracts with the Israeli government and military as part of Project Nimbus

When Jana returns home from studying abroad in Paris, her hometown Beirut is not what she remembers. A disappearing view of the sea at her parents' house and a...

French Foreign Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian reiterated, on Tuesday, "the unwavering respect for Algerian sovereignty", amid the tension that prevails in relations between Paris and Algiers, particularly regarding colonial...

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban has told attendants at the V4 summit that the EU cannot cope without Egypt it's most obvious, external ally. Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger...

The United States yesterday condemned cross-border attacks on Turkish soil and offered condolences for the killings of two Turkish police officers in northern Syria, Anadolu reported. "We condemn the cross-border attack...

"Britain is in the grip of an assault on its public sphere by the State of Israel and its advocates," David Miller wrote in February. Since then, almost as...

Macron apologised to the Rwandan state and people for the crimes of his country and its silence over the massacres, so why does he not apologise to Algeria and...

On Tuesday, Turkey's Vice President, Fuat Oktay, spoke with Vietnamese Prime Minister, Pham Minh Chinh, over the phone and discussed trade, tourism, and the fight against Fetullah Terrorist Organization...

Greece announced that 250 additional guards would be deployed at the country's land border with Turkey, as thousands of asylum-seekers tried to enter the country last year, Athens News...

The UAE has been named the most desirable country to live in by Arab youth for the 10th consecutive year according to this year's ASDA'A Arab Youth Survey released...

Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has announced that Turkey has lost its patience with the Kurdish militias attacking the country from neighbouring Syria, stating that a new military operation...

Several Palestine activist groups and academics working in the field of anti-Semitism studies have issued separate statements raising their concerns on instrumentalising anti-Semitism ahead of tomorrow's International Forum on...

Israel deals with Palestinians in accordance with its procedures and internal laws, and Israeli judges apply the unjust policies of the Israeli government. It is an illegitimate state and...

Civil society organisations and activists in the UK and overseas are threatening to organise a mass boycott of the University of Bristol unless it reverses the decision to fire...