Europe & Russia

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has instructed his government to send emergency aid to Gaza, Pls48 news website reported. Sources in the Prime Minister's office said the Turkish...

Social justice activists are taking to the streets in protest against Israel's military aggression in the occupied Palestinian territories, organising demonstrations in cities around the world to demand an...

"Israel will not be able to destroy Hamas", Middle East Envoy Tony Blair said in an interview, explaining that this "must come from the Palestinians themselves". Speaking to Israeli...

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...

Concerned citizens in a number of European cities have staged peaceful protests against Israel's aggression in the Gaza Strip, which so far has resulted in the killing of several...

The European Union said it is following with deep concern the rapidly deteriorating situation in the Gaza Strip and the occupied Palestinian territories, and called for an immediate end...

Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu criticised statements made by presidential candidate Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu who said that he stands on the fence on the Palestinian issue, Assabeel news agency reported....

Over a thousand illegal Syrian immigrants have infiltrated the city of Melilla, a semi-autonomous region in the north-east of Morocco held under Spanish sovereignty, during the first six months...

The United Kingdom and Canada have not responded to requests made by the Egyptian government to cooperate with the two countries in investigations into whether the Muslim Brotherhood is...

This is the week that Britain's Guardian newspaper published a detailed article in which it was revealed that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will serve as an economic...

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...

SodaStream has "suffered serious setbacks" in Britain, with major chain John Lewis taking the Israeli company's products off the shelves. The nationwide department store said in a statement that...

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,...

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan praised religious education in Turkey during a programme on Friday organised by the Imam Hatip Schools Alumni Association. "A nation which forgets its religion...

  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...

Mustapha El-Khalfi calls the Arab Spring of 2011 the "democratic spring" though it's hard to see how it earned that name. There is a civil war raging in Syria,...

Dutch pension fund ABP has divested from two Israeli companies for their role in producing cluster munitions. Aryt Industries Ltd. and Ashot Ashkelon both appear on a list dated...

A year on from the coup that brought Egypt's encounter with democracy to a premature end, the country is locked into a state of crisis. The prisons are full....

If the presidential elections' results are based on the results of the first round, which is expected, then Turkey will have a new president on August 11. The fact...

How can a man bearing the title 'Middle East Peace Envoy' agree to advise the blood-drenched Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, who seized power in a military coup last...

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has denied a Guardian newspaper report claiming that he is working as an economic adviser to Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi. Jordan's Assabeel...

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,...

Turkey has ranked fourth on the list of the world's largest humanitarian donors, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said yesterday. A statement by the ministry said that the number of...

The European Union condemned "in the strongest terms" the killing of a Palestinian child yesterday. The EU statement comes in the aftermath of the murder of 16-year-old Mohamed Abu...

The transfer of Syria's chemical weapons from a Danish cargo ship to a US naval ship has been completed in Italy's southern port of Gioia Tauro, Anadolu news agency...

Tony Blair has agreed to advise the Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who came to power in a military coup last year, as part of a programme funded by...

Campaigners are taking the BBC to a tribunal in a bid to find out why the corporation insists on promoting Jerusalem as an "Israeli city." An appeal was filed...

This country appears to have a major problem in identifying good role models for some young Muslim men – or so the Government believes. Certainly, the YouTube footage of...

Turkish officials said that Turkey rejects the establishment of an independent Kurdish state in northern Iraq, Reuters reported Monday. According to a Turkish official, as quoted byReuters, the Turkish...

Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the joint presidential candidate for Turkey's two main opposition parties, has visited Anitkabir, where the Turkish Republic's founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is buried in Ankara. Ihsanoglu is...

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been declared the ruling AK Party's official candidate in the August 2014 presidential election. The announcement in Ankara put an end to weeks...

Russia has asked the United Nations Security Council to condemn the sale of Syrian oil by terrorist groups, including ISIS and Al-Nusra Front, diplomats reported. A draft presidential statement...