Lawyers of Turkish businessman Mehmet Ali Ozturk, who has been detained in the UAE for nearly three years, have filed an urgent complaint to the United Nations accusing the...

Pakistan on Wednesday conferred its highest civilian award to visiting Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, reports Anadolu Agency. At a ceremony at the President House in the capital Islamabad...

The number of Tunisian migrants landing on Italian shores soared fivefold to 13,000 in 2020, a rights group said on Tuesday, citing economic privations in Tunisia that fuel migration...

France on Tuesday condemned Israel's plan to advance construction of 800 more Jewish settler homes in the occupied West Bank in a move to cement the projects shortly before...

The Egyptian Navy has received an Egyptian-made, Gowind-class frigate to join its fleet, the army said in a statement yesterday. Made in Egypt in collaboration with France, the frigate...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu will pay an official visit to Pakistan tomorrow, according to an official statement by the Foreign Ministry, Anadolu reports. The visit, the statement said, will cover...

Lebanese President Michel Aoun was caught on camera yesterday accusing Prime Minister-delegate Saad Hariri of "lying". The leaked video, which was caught by local television channel Al Jadeed's camera team, shows...

Efforts by Britain's Conservative government to force universities to adopt the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism, and to cut their funding if they don't, have...

Somalia's prime minister has introduced a quota of 30 per cent female representation in parliament in preparation for the election being held next month, Reuters reported yesterday. Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein...

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) yesterday criticised the timing of the US State Department's plan to designate Yemen's Houthi group as a "terrorist organisation", saying Yemen is on the...

Egypt's foreign minister has said that no country has the right to interfere in the internal affairs of his country besides Egyptians themselves. "Each society has its own conditions...

An app that reminds Muslims when to pray, shows nearby mosques and determines the direction of Makkah has been tracking users' location and selling their information on, reveals a...

Beny Steinmetz, Israeli-French mining tycoon, yesterday appeared in a Swiss court over corruption claims that he paid millions of dollars to Guinean officials for mining franchises, international news agencies...

The family of the Turkish citizen Halil Gozel, who was kidnapped by the militia of renegade General Khalifa Haftar about 11 months ago, expressed concern about his fate, while...

The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) is Britain's largest children's NGO. It is under pressure to renounce its relationship with J C Bamford Excavators...

British-Palestinian Zaher Birawi has agreed to accept a settlement after the World-Check site wrongly listed him on its terrorism categorisation. Refinitiv Ltd, owners of World-Check – which describes itself...

Oil prices declined today in light of renewed concerns about a shortage of global demand for fuel, amid the re-imposition of strict lockdown measures as coronavirus cases rise across...

Algerian President, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, returned to Germany on Sunday to complete his treatment for COVID-19. Tebboune had travelled to Germany a few months ago to receive treatment, and returned to Algeria at the...

Oktar, who began forming groups of followers at the end of the 1970s, had previously faced a number of trials on charges including forming a criminal gang but was acquitted.

Turkey and Greece said on Monday they wanted to resume suspended exploratory talks over territorial claims in the Mediterranean Sea which brought them close to conflict last year, reports...

The health ministry of the Palestinian Authority (PA) has approved the main Russian vaccine against COVID-19, known as Sputnik V, for use in Palestinian self-ruled territory, Russia's sovereign wealth...

A man who fought for an Islamist militant group as a teenager in Libya was jailed for the rest of his life on Monday for murdering three men in...

Turkey’s media office quits WhatsApp over its new privacy policy

The Paris-based Union of Arab and French Banks (UBAF) has agreed to pay an $8.6 million penalty imposed by the US Treasury Department for violating a series of sanctions...

The United Arab Emirates' Foreign Minister Anwar Gargash has expressed his country's desire to normalise and re-establish relations with Turkey, following tensions between the two. Gargash made the remarks in an interview...

Iraq's Water Resources Minister Mehdi Rashid Al-Hamdani yesterday warned that his country would face a water crisis if it does not reach a deal with Turkey, the New Khaleej reported. Al-Hamdani stressed on...

Turkey reported over 9,000 new coronavirus infections on Sunday, Anadolu reports. A total of 9,138 fresh cases, including 1,017 symptomatic patients, were confirmed across the country, according to Health...

Three brothers from a single-family lost their lives to COVID-19 in the course of a month in Turkey's Black Sea province of Samsun, Anadolu reports. Selman Emirhan, a 33-year-old...

Turkey extended condolences to Indonesia over Saturday's passenger plane crash near the capital Jakarta, Anadolu Agency reports. "We have learned with great sadness that a passenger airplane flying from...

The joy of reconciliation and resuming cooperation among the Gulf states was not limited to the peoples, but also extended to the countries of the region. The Turkish Ministry...

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has asked Tehran to disclose all details related to its downed civilian plane last year. On the first anniversary of the downing of the plane,...

Greek media reports about Riyadh's intention to send F-15 aircraft to the Souda military base on the Greek island of Crete has raised concerns in Turkey, as reflected in...