Three Belgian companies which exported banned chemicals to Syria are to be fined, while two of the three companies’ heads will be sent to prison. The chemicals in question...

Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel resigned from his post on Tuesday after losing the backing of his main coalition partner for signing the UN migration deal in Marrakesh last...

Qatar will more than double its naval forces by 2025 as a massive new base comes online and it expands a national service programme amid a protracted dispute with...

Iran’s nuclear chief said on Tuesday he was warning the European Union’s top diplomat that Iranian patience was running out on the bloc’s pledges to keep up oil trade...

Brigadier General Khalifa Haftar will soon sue authorities in Belgium who he has accused of supporting terrorism in Libya, his spokesperson said. Ahmed Al-Mesmari said:  “Belgium has delivered weapons...

On Monday, a Belgian TV channel unveiled the investigations conducted by the Belgian Attorney-General, Georges Gilkinet, over the disappearance of billions of Euros from the accounts of Libyan Colonel Muammar...

In its ongoing battle against the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign Israel is pushing for European political parties to declare the movement “fundamentally anti-Semitic”. The latest drive...

Germany hands over Iranian diplomat to Belgium over accusations of plotting attack on Iranian opponents A German court has allowed the country’s authorities to hand over to Belgium an...

UN: More than 30,000 displaced in Syria’s Idlib in latest offensive More than 30,000 people have so far fled their homes in northwest Syria since the regime and its...

The debate over the return of compulsory military service has been transferred from Moroccans residing in the country to the Moroccan community abroad. In particular, it raises the question...

Italy on Sunday disembarked all 150 migrants from a rescue ship that had been docked for five days in a Sicilian port, ending the migrants’ ordeal and a bitter...

Archaeological excavation has begun at the site of a Roman legionary base in the ancient city of Satala in Gumushane, northeast Turkey. “This is the first time a Roman...

Canada took on a courageous position through its foreign minister and embassy in Riyadh when it expressed its concern regarding the Saudi authorities’ arrest of human rights activists, including...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday held talks with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to discuss bilateral ties and regional developments, Anadolu reports. During the...

An Iranian diplomat has been arrested along with two people suspected of plotting a bomb attack on a meeting of an exiled Iranian opposition group in France attended by Donald Trump’s...

The UK government praised a motion passed by the members of the international chemical weapons watchdog that will enable the body to identify those responsible for chemical attacks in...

Asylum seekers moving to Europe have raised their adopted nations’ economic output, lowered unemployment and not placed a burden on public finances, scientists said on Wednesday, reports the Thomson Reuters Foundation....

A Dutch company exported 38 tonnes of chemical materials to the Syrian regime which were used to manufacture chemical weapons without obtaining the necessary licenses, Netherlands’ Nederlandse Omroep Stichting...

The “Miles of Smiles 34” aid convoy arrived in the blockaded Gaza Strip on Tuesday via Egypt’s Rafah border crossing. Teeming with medical and humanitarian aid, the convoy traversed...

Belgian ministers on Saturday expressed their “grave concern” over rising tensions with Israel and Palestine following the US veto of a UN Security Council resolution calling for the protection...

Activists laid out 4,500 pairs of shoes in front of the Council of the EU in Belgium on 28 May 2018 to represent every person killed in the Israel-Palestine conflict in the past decade

Iran and European powers have made good progress in talks to end the conflict in Yemen as Tehran has shown itself willing to push for a ceasefire and ease...

Israel has “summoned the ambassadors of Spain, Slovenia and Belgium over their votes at a UN body calling for an international probe of the deadly shootings of dozens of...

Luxembourg’s Foreign Ministry summoned on Wednesday Israeli Ambassador to his country Simona Frankel for reprimand and protest over the massacre committed by the Israeli occupation forces on Monday on...

The European Union on Monday once again voiced its commitment to a landmark 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, saying it “could be used as a basis for future work”....

British director Ken Loach has criticised Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel after the official accused him of anti-Semitism following his outspoken position against Israeli violations in the occupied Palestinian Territories. Michel...

Around 20 civilians have been killed in week-long regime airstrikes on Syria’s Yarmouk refugee camp, according to local sources today. Several people were injured in the attacks, sources told...

Belgium’s Minister of Development Cooperation Alexander De Croo yesterday announced that his country will allocate €26 million ($32 million) for the humanitarian needs of Syrian both in the war...

Three Belgian companies will appear before court in May for allegedly exporting chemicals to Syria, an official source revealed yesterday. The Belgian chemical exports were reported to have contained...

European Union ambassadors discussed on Wednesday possible new sanctions on Iran, diplomats said, under plans aimed at persuading US President Donald Trump to preserve an international nuclear deal with...

Lebanese President Michel Aoun called for the European Union to open its markets to Lebanese exports, the Anadolu Agency reported yesterday. During a meeting with the Commissioner for European Neighbourhood...

The Belgian government has officially decided to withdraw the administration of the Great Mosque in Brussels from Saudi Arabia and give it to Morocco. With this decision Brussels has...