European countries tried to pressure the United States to cancel its Middle East conference taking place in Polish capital Warsaw this week. According to Israel’s KAN TV channel –...

A BBC investigation revealed the subjection of Sudanese activists and demonstrators opposed to the current regime to blatant human rights violations during their detention, as well as the security...

Police have arrested two Syrian citizens in Germany on suspicion of crimes against humanity, including torturing prisoners, during their work for the intelligence service in Syria, federal prosecutors said...

The Saudi-UK love affair continues...

Turkey’s National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar met acting US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan in Brussels on Wednesday, Anadolu Agency reports. During the meeting, recent developments in Syria were discussed, according...

Is the Warsaw Conference aiding Netanyahu's re-election bid?

A group of Gaza Freedom Flotilla survivors gathered in London today to express their concern at a last-minute intervention by an Israeli NGO to halt International Criminal Court (ICC)...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that internal Palestinian division is used as a pretext to promote the US “deal of the century”. During a meeting with the Palestinian...

France has accepted Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s candidacy for a fifth term, citing the lack of viable alternatives to lead the country. France agreed to Bouteflika’s fifth term after...

A spokesman for Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), Omer Celik, said Monday that Saudi Arabia has not been cooperative on the murder case of Saudi journalist Jamal...

US senators from both parties introduced a resolution on Tuesday requiring that any deal to share US nuclear power technology with Saudi Arabia block the kingdom from making a...

Saudi Arabia plans to reduce its oil exports to 6.9 million barrels per day (bpd) in March, down from 8.2 million bpd last year, the country’s energy minister, Khalid...

Foreign ministers and senior officials from 60 nations gather in the Polish capital Warsaw on Wednesday where the United States hopes to ratchet up pressure against Iran despite concerns...

Dozens of relatives of foreign fighters including Iraqis, Turks, and Russians fled Daesh’s last bastion in eastern Syria on Tuesday as the jihadists lost ground to US-backed forces, Reuters reports....

The Qatari sovereign wealth fund’s acquisition of a stake in Russia’s Rosneft sets the stage for collaboration between the Russian oil major and Qatar Petroleum, Doha’s ambassador to Moscow...

German authorities banned two media organisations it said are linked to the banned Kurdistan Workers party (PKK), considered a terrorist organisation by the European Union and Turkey, after raids...

Old tensions are bubbling to the surface

Hamas and Islamic Jihad today refused to sign the final statement of the Moscow meetings. Islamic Jihad’s leader – who is a member of the delegation to Moscow –...

A major international conference hosted by the US to build an anti-Iran coalition has been snubbed by senior figures in Europe, signalling a rift between US President Donald Trump...

Hamas has labelled anyone participating in the US-led Warsaw conference “traitors”, accusing them of stabbing the Palestinian cause in the back. Senior Hamas leader in the besieged Gaza Strip,...

The lack of action to bring Israel to account for more than seven decades’ worth of crimes against the Palestinian people is obvious. “Enough is enough” is an overused...

The UK has been discussing post-Brexit trade deals with key Gulf states ahead of its impending deadline to leave the European Union (EU). The United Arab Emirates (UAE)’s Minister...

Russia has condemned Israel’s airstrikes in Syria as “unlawful,” labelling its targeting of alleged Iranian targets illegitimate. Deputy Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Ryabkov, said yesterday that Israeli airstrikes on...

Arms imports to the Middle East were doubled during the period from 2013-2017, compared to the region’s total arms imports in the previous five years, the Munich Security Report...

Turkey’s National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar on Monday met his Russian counterpart Sergey Shoigu in the Turkish capital Ankara reports Anadolu Agency. Akar chaired talks with his Russian counterpart and the delegations...

Battling a sharp rise in food costs, Turkish authorities opened their own markets on Monday to sell cheap vegetables directly to shoppers, cutting out retailers who the government has...

China has slammed Turkey’s criticism of its policy against the country’s Uighur Muslim community, labelling the latter’s condemnation a “double standard”. Turkey broke its silence this weekend over China’s...

French energy giant Total has come under sharp rebuke from Israel over the company’s investment stance, amid growing concerns in Tel Aviv that the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)...

Three Muslim girls, two of Syrian origin, were assaulted in separate attacks in the German capital Berlin, with anti-immigrant sentiments thought to be the motive. Two Syrian refugees aged...

The United States is likely just weeks away from starting the withdrawal of ground troops from Syria ordered by President Donald Trump, the top US commander overseeing American forces...

Turkey called on China to close its internment camps for Muslims, saying the camps which reportedly hold a million ethnic Uighur people are a “great shame for humanity”. Last...

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