Volkswagen AG will end almost of all its operations in Iran, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing a US official who led the discussions with the carmaker. The Trump administration...

A group of Palestinian societies in Europe are planning to launch a comprehensive conference in Berlin on Sunday, a statement said. The organisers called for all members of the...

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...

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has said that his country is ready to take part in the rebuilding of Syria, Quds Press has reported. Maas made his comment ahead...

The closure of the Palestine Liberation Organisation office in Washington undermines the peace process aimed at reaching a two-state solution, a spokeswoman for the German Foreign Ministry said on...

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 Jordanian government announced on Monday that it had signed three agreements with its German counterpart to fund projects in the water and education sectors in the Kingdom worth...

Itay Tiran, “widely considered Israel’s leading theatrical actor-director”, has declared his support for the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, in an interview with Haaretz. Excerpts of the...

The UK has stepped in with an extra $9 million for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), in an attempt to...

Switzerland looks set to loosen arms export rules to allow sales to countries embroiled in civil wars despite a newspaper report that Swiss-made hand grenades probably made their way...

Benjamin Netanyahu has caused outrage by echoing Adolf Hitler in a tweet warning that the “weak are slaughtered” and the “strong survive”. Writing on the official Twitter account of...

As Syrian President Bashar al-Assad attempts to turn military success into postwar reconstruction, Western sanctions are a major obstacle that could scare off foreign companies. Syria has suffered immense...

The German government has pledged to increase its donations to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) following the announcement that the US has cut its own contributions to...

Iran has remained within the main restrictions on its nuclear activities imposed by a 2015 deal with major powers, a confidential report by the UN atomic watchdog indicated on Thursday....

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...

The diplomatic crisis between Saudi Arabia and Canada sparked a silent crisis with Germany. This began when German and European newspapers criticised the Saudi authorities for its response. Moreover,...

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...

Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland yesterday refused to retreat in her country’s row with Saudi Arabia over the human rights situation in the kingdom. “Canada will always defend human...

Yedioth Ahronoth revealed that “the Israeli navy participated in the world’s largest maritime exercise alongside Islamic countries”. The military expert Yoav Zitun stated on Saturday that “this exercise, known as...

Israel’s Shin Bet interrogated a German citizen about his “Palestinian blood” at a southern border crossing with Jordan earlier this month, reported Haaretz. Nadim Sarrouh, his wife, Venus Ayoub,...

An Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman on Thursday called on the US to return to a landmark nuclear deal from which it withdrew earlier this year. Speaking on Iranian state...

The European and American medicines agencies have sent a letter to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman warning him of the dangers that the continuation of diplomatic disputes between...

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,...

More than 100 African migrants managed to force their way into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco on Wednesday when hundreds tried to storm the highly fortified border, a Spanish...

Germany’s former foreign minister slammed US President Donald Trump on Tuesday for pursuing the ‘irresponsible” policy of threatening Ankara with economic pressure and sanctions. “Under the Trump administration, the...

Germany has reached an agreement with Greece to send back migrants to the Mediterranean country if they have already applied for asylum there, the German Interior Ministry said on...

US President Donald Trump’s national security adviser John Bolton will discuss arms control treaties and Iran’s role in Syria in talks with Russian counterpart Nikolai Patrushev in Geneva next...

A Yazidi girl has moved back to Iraq after German authorities took no action when she accidentally bumped in to her Daesh kidnapper in German, the Kurdish Bas News newspaper reported....

German state-owned rail operator Deutsche Bahn is phasing out projects in Iran after Washington imposed new sanctions against Tehran and said firms doing business with Iran would be barred from doing business with...

Israel suspended a German-backed construction project to build a landfill site for waste disposal in the central occupied West Bank district of Ramallah yesterday. The Israeli Minister of Environmental Protection, Zeev...

August 14 marks the fifth anniversary of the massacre at Cairo’s Rabaa and Nahda Squares, in which Egyptian security forces killed at least 800 supporters of deposed Islamist president...