An Islamic State (ISIS) affiliate group yesterday claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of a Frenchman in an area to the east of Algiers, calling on the French President Francois...

France has launched its first aerial strike against Islamic State (ISIS) positions in Iraq, the office of the French president said in a statement today. The attack destroyed a...

Algeria is reported to have requested France guarantee regional stability if the West decides to intervene militarily in Libya, a diplomatic source revealed yesterday. Libya has been witnessing turmoil...

Morocco ranked third in the world and first in the Maghreb region for acquiring French arms in 2013, France’s La Tribune newspaper revealed citing a defence ministry report submitted...

France and Saudi Arabia are finalising a $3 billion arms deal to provide the Lebanese army with weapons, the French presidency announced yesterday following talks between French President Francois...

Bahrain has announced its support for France’s proposal to launch an international coalition against terrorism, the Bahraini News Agency reported. The proposal, put forward by French President Francois Hollande,...

French President Francois Hollande said today that Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad “cannot be a partner in the fight against terrorism, he is the de facto ally of jihadists.” Speaking...

French police sources said that the Saudi prince, who was robbed on Monday, was Abdul-Aziz Bin Fahd, known as “playful”. The prince is the youngest son of the late...

The Saudi Embassy in France has denied the media reports claiming that “one of its cars was attacked while on its way to the airport carrying large sums of...

A motorcade containing a Saudi prince was forced off the road at gunpoint in Paris last night, a heavily armed gang stole €250,000 and “sensitive” documents as it hijacked...

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Sunday that France would offer arms and humanitarian aid to Iraq but does not intend to intervene militarily against the Islamic State...

Germany, France and Britain presented on Wednesday an initiative to reopen the Rafah Crossing to the Gaza Strip under international supervision, a German diplomatic source said on Wednesday. The...

Commentators who were not there provided chilling descriptions of an alleged attack on the Roquette Synagogue in the Bastille area of Paris last month. Evoking the Nazi Holocaust, they...

Former France and Manchester United footballer Eric Cantona has expressed strong anger over the policy of the French President Francois Hollande, for its support of the Israeli war on...

Algeria’s national airline, Air Algerie, has released the nationalities of passengers on its plane that went missing over Mali on Thursday, saying that at least 50 were French. Twelve...

“The scale of the riots in the suburb of Sarcelles in Paris, following an unauthorised demonstration yesterday, would have widened without a decision to ban the demonstration,” French Interior...

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators in the French capital, Paris, clashed with anti-riot police yesterday for the second consecutive day defying a ban on their rallies. The unrest erupted in the city...

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Saturday that Gaza ceasefire efforts have failed, Israeli radio reported. In press statements following his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

France’s socialist government provoked outrage today by becoming the first in the world to ban protests against Israeli action in Palestine. In what is viewed as an outrageous attack...

French Minister of the Interior Bernard Cazeneuve banned pro-Palestinian demonstrations, scheduled in Paris tomorrow, to be banned citing the violence that erupted between them and pro-Israeli demonstrators last week....

Leader of Tunisia’s Ennahda Movement, Rachid Ghannouchi said yesterday that his country leads mediation efforts along with Turkey, Qatar and France to stop the Israeli aggression on the Gaza...

Jewish vigilantes brandishing iron bars and cans of pepper spray took to the streets of Paris to attack pro-Palestinian demonstrators, it emerged today. (Tuesday) Shocking images shot in the...

French President Francois Hollande expressed his country’s solidarity with Israel in the face of rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, stressing that Israel has the right to “take all...

British and French embassies in Israel attempted to mediate with Palestinian leaders to stop the continued Arab uprising, a senior Palestinian official told Al-Araby Al-Jadid yesterday. The source, who...

A seven-hour bilateral meeting held in Vienna between Deputy Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Deputy EU Foreign Policy Chief Helga Schmidt ended with no deal on Friday night,...

  Twelve European Union countries warned their citizens yesterday against engagement in business deals or investing in the illegal Israeli settlements or with bodies connected to them in the...

Marine Le Pen has not said if she was among the millions who watched Algeria’s heroic football team narrowly lose to Germany in the World Cup earlier this week,...

Western diplomats and Iran have started drafting a nuclear agreement following talks that took place between 16-20 June in Vienna, an EU official told reporters on Friday. According to...

The countries participating in the Rome Conference to support the Lebanese army affirmed their readiness to provide it with special technical support. The Conference, which was held in the...

Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Monday that French arms sales increased by 42 per cent or €6.7 billion in 2013 compared to 2012 and are expected to...

Iran must drop its demand to have thousands of the centrifuges used in uranium enrichment if it wants its nuclear negotiations with the P5+1 world powers to result in...

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius yesterday started a two-day visit to Algeria in a bid to boost “excellent” ties between Algiers and Paris. The visit came after an invitation...