In 1994, still rejoicing in the apparent success of the Oslo Accords of the previous year, Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) embarked upon another set of deals...

Morocco and Algeria are ready to cooperate with us but they are seeking international financial support to secure their borders, France’s interior minister, Gerard Collomb, said yesterday. Speaking in...

Iran said on Saturday that Kurdish activists attacked its embassy in Paris and it accused French police of arriving late on the scene. Paris police confirmed officers had responded...

German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen on Saturday said she could not rule out a longer-term deployment of German forces in the Middle East, amid a broader debate...

The French Presidency yesterday admitted for the first time to instigating a regime of torture during Algeria’s War of Independence which ended in 1962. In a statement, President Emmanuel...

France stuck to its position pushing for elections in Libya by the end of the year on Thursday, a day after Italy and the UN-backed government in Tripoli sowed doubts on...

France is in talks with Houthi forces in Yemen to secure the release of one its citizens held since June after his boat ran into difficulty near the country’s...

UN investigators said on Wednesday that they had documented three further uses of banned chlorine weapons by Syrian government forces that constituted war crimes, and urged major powers to help...

A new round of violence erupted on 27 August south of the Libyan capital Tripoli, between militias nominally allied to the Government of National Accord (GNA) and the 7th...

A member of the Saudi royal family has reported that her jewellery were stolen from her suite at the Ritz hotel in Paris, France’s La Voix du Nord reported yesterday. The unnamed...

United Nations human rights experts warned Israel against proceeding with the planned demolition of Palestinian village Khan Al-Ahmar, in a strongly-worded statement issued yesterday. The renewed criticism came as...

The leader of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), Andrea Nahles said Monday that her party rejects the German armed forces participation in the war against Syria if the...

The Egyptian army announced joint military training exercises with the United States on Thursday, to combat terrorism and reducing the threat of improvised explosive devices (IED), two days before the launch...

The Gulf crisis, which began with the siege and the boycott of Qatar by several Gulf and Arab countries, led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, did...

French authorities evacuated 141 passengers and crew from a flight arriving in the French city of Perpignan from Algeria on Wednesday after a child on board was suspected of being infected...

France’s Societe Generale yesterday expected to pay €1.1 billion ($1.27 billion) infinesto settle a dispute with US over its violation ofsanctions imposed on Iran. The country’s second largest bank...

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Syrian regime President Bashar Al-Assad has won the war in Syria but he will not “win the peace” without international mediators. Speaking...

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been dismissing generals to tighten his grip on power ahead of him possibly seeking re-election next year and to diminish the power of the...

France aligns itself with the United States in the bid to find a political solution in Syria, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Wednesday, Anadolu reports. “We have a common...

Much of Britain’s frenzied and poisonous debate regarding accusing the Labour Party of anti-Semitism revolves around the Labour Party’s expression of its opposition to Israeli laws, practices, ideologies and...

Mohammad Bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s energetic young Crown Prince, seems to be in a hurry not only to consolidate his domestic power, as monarch-in-waiting, but also to make his...

Moroccan singer Saad Lamjarred has once again been detained in France on allegations of rape, officials have said. Lamjarred was held following an alleged incident which took place in...

French President Emmanuel Macron threatened to launch new strikes against Syria if the regime uses chemical weapons again. Speaking to French ambassadors yesterday, Macron said that Paris, the US...

A return to normalcy in Syria that left its leader Bashar al-Assad in power would be a “fatal error” as the situation there is nearing its “hour of truth”, French...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Monday urged the remaining signatories to it’s 2015 nuclear agreement to act to save the pact, although France’s leader called again for broader talks...

The Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs in Paris has pointed out that a year has elapsed since the arrest of French citizen Salah Hamouri by Israel. France is...

France dismissed on Thursday any suggestion that millions of Syrian refugees could start returning home, as urged by Russia, which backs President Bashar al-Assad. Foreign ministry spokeswoman Agnes von der...

British Airways and Air France said on Thursday they would halt flights to Iran from September for business reasons, months after US President Donald Trump announced he would re-impose sanctions on...

Turkey’s presidential spokesman has blasted Washington for disregarding the legal process in the case of an American pastor facing terrorism-related charges. In a written statement to Reuters late Wednesday,...

Italian far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on Wednesday resisted increasing pressure to allow 177 migrants who have been held on a coast guard ship in a Sicilian port for...

The US, UK, and France on Tuesday once again condemned the use of chemical weapons by Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria. In a joint statement on the occasion of...

During a press conference at the White House with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on 30 July, President Donald Trump said, “e recognise Italy’s leadership role in the stabilisation...