Berlin has revoked Iranian airline Mahan’s right to operate in Germany, a senior government source told Reuters today, giving both safety concerns and the suspicion that the airline was...

The German parliament’s lower house approved on Friday a contentious law to limit asylum applications from Georgia and three Maghreb countries Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, Reuters reports. Some 509...

A German court ruled on Wednesday that a suspected Islamist militant who was deported to Tunisia in July must not be returned to Germany, saying it no longer believed...

A German official has confirmed that his country has no intention of granting new arms export licenses to Saudi Arabia following the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The...

Egyptian authorities yesterday deported the German-Egyptian citizen, Issa Mohamed Al-Sabbagh, who had been reported “missing” for weeks, state-owned Middle East News Agency (MENA) has reported. Al-Sabbagh, 19, was arrested...

French soccer star, Franck Ribery, was slammed on social media for being ostentatious when he posted a video of himself enjoying a gold-coated steak at a Dubai restaurant. The...

It is a long-forgotten fact that some Middle East nations, including now war-torn Syria, hosted European refugees during the second World War. Civilians from Eastern Europe and the Balkans migrated...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday a deal between the European Union and Turkey to stem massive migrant flows is dysfunctional and criticized Greece’s legal system for underperforming...

The Somali government has ordered the UN top envoy in the country to leave its territories, accusing him of interfering in national sovereignty. The decision came days after concerns...

Germany’s foreign ministry said on Monday it was providing consular aid to a German man barred from leaving Turkey after the authorities accused him of supporting a terrorist organisation...

Germany is to ban flights in and out of the country by Iran’s Mahan Air, which is under US sanctions over allegations it ferries troops and supplies into Syria...

Former Germany foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel said if the Gulf crisis escalated in 2017 Qatar could have faced military invasion. “I know in what situation we were in those...

Two launch units for anti-tank guided missiles recovered by a Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen appear to have been manufactured in Iran during 2016 and 2017, according to a...

Assault on free speech has been a common feature of Israeli governments. This week another example of its efforts to silence critical voices was revealed by the +972 magazine,...

Germany allocated €55 million ($62.5 million) to be dispersed to Palestinian development projects in the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip in 2019. Klaus Kramer, the head...

Iran backs UN-sponsored peace talks in Yemen, state media reported earlier today, with Tehran stating that it was ready to help find a political solution to the conflict. “Iran...

Iran said on Sunday it would continue missile tests to build up its defences and denied this was in breach of UN resolutions following US allegations that Tehran had...

Rating 4/5 Why do people who are normally good commit acts of evil? A great many have been bedevilled by the question but the answer is as elusive as...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will not meet Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman this weekend at the G20 summit, a government official said. Speaking to Al-Jazeera the official said...

A German consultancy firm with access to senior officials in the country has been employed by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman to improve the kingdom’s image. For years,...

Denmark has suspended future approvals of weapons and military equipment exports to Saudi Arabia in response to the killing of a Saudi journalist and the kingdom’s role in the...

The United States said on Tuesday it had moved to disrupt an Iranian-Russian network that sent millions of barrels of oil to Syria and hundreds of millions of dollars...

Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, yesterday threatened that his country would withdraw from the 2015 nuclear deal if Tehran’s economic needs were not met after the United States...

Germany on Monday imposed a travel ban on 18 Saudi citizens over their suspected involvement in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Anadolu Agency reports. “These individuals are the...

The Trump administration hopes that the US-backed fight against Daesh in its last foothold in northeastern Syria will end within months but American forces will remain to ensure the...

US President Donald Trump and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan discussed how to respond to the killing last month of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi, a White House official said on Sunday. The...

Turkey has given recordings related to the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi to Saudi Arabia, the United States, Germany, France and Britain, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday....

Saudi Arabia has halted a deal which saw it finance an Egyptian plan to purchase two frigates from a German company, France’s Intelligence Online reported yesterday. Crown Prince Mohammed...

The Kuwaiti private sector is the largest Arab investor in Germany with investments worth €16 billion ($18.3 billion), Chairman of Kuwait’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI), Ali Mohamed...

Is the search on for a country to give Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman refuge with international guarantees? That is the gist of a news report circulating in...

Germany’s role in the United Nations Security Council is “to overcome regional conflicts,” the country’s chancellor, Angela Merkel, said yesterday. “Egypt, of course, has a major problem with the...

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Sunday that he had met Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister and called for a transparent investigation into the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Reuters...