Europe & Russia

Britain's Foreign Secretary, William Hague, has said that Syria's president has no plans to leave office because he believes he is strong and in control of the country. Speaking...

Russia may call an urgent UN Security Council meeting to "stop the slide towards escalation in Syria", Russian sources told Al-Mayadeen channel. The source revealed that Russia had information...

Brigadier-General Yosef Kuperwasser, director- general of Israel's Ministry of Strategic Affairs, declared this week, during a speech in London, that "all the Jewish people have to be mobilised" to...

The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, met on Thursday with the commander of Egypt's military coup, Field Marshal Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, at the Kremlin in Moscow. According to Egyptian media,...

The goal behind the Russian-Egyptian cooperation and arming Egypt is Russia's need for another base and focus point in the Mediterranean Sea, other than Syria, as it is unstable...

Turkey will not recognise Egypt's Field Marshal Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi who orchestrated the military coup or any other person if elected as president of Egypt, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip...

The President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz said he was "surprised" by the reaction of the Israeli Financial Minister Naftali Bennett during his speech in the Knesset, German...

A leading Dutch association of investors has claimed that many of the country's pension funds, insurance companies and banks "fail to adequately apply guidelines on international law and human...

European countries should enact laws to prohibit future boycotts of Israel; Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reported to have said on Sunday. Israel's Maariv newspaper published on Wednesday...

Turkish-Israeli relations will not return to normal until Israel lifts its strict blockade on the Gaza Strip and signs a protocol agreement between both countries, Turkish Prime Minister Recep...

According to news reports, Israel has agreed to pay $20 million in compensation to the families of the nine Turkish citizens who were killed during the 2010 Israeli army...

The Egyptian army controls almost 45 per cent of the country's economy, German newspaper Die Welt claimed. In a report entitled "The Egyptian army is Egypt's real economic power"...

What we wished would happen in Egypt has come true in London. I was among those whose voice grew coarse from calling for conducting an impartial investigation of the...

It is neither strange nor surprising that the Egyptian authorities were the first and quickest to welcome British Prime Minister David Cameron's decision to conduct an urgent investigation into...

David Cameron has been a competent and in many ways an underestimated prime minister, especially when dealing with domestic policy. However, he brought negligible experience of foreign affairs with...

David Cameron's decision to order an investigation into the "philosophy and activities" of the Muslim Brotherhood, particularly as they relate to Britain, stems from a broader nervousness in western...

When I read in yesterday morning's news that the Justice and Development Party in Turkey won the local elections, I said it was a different morning; not because it...

In the past week, the Washington-based Bipartisan Policy Center published a report titled, "Turkey's Local Election: Actors, Factors, and Implications" signed by Alan Makosky, Eric Edelman and Morton Abramowitz,...

Last week I finished reading Abdel Bari Atwan's latest book, After Bin Laden: al-Qaeda, the Next Generation. This renowned Palestinian journalist is regarded as an international expert on al-Qaeda,...

David Cameron was visiting the Israeli government in occupied Palestine this week. Reading his speech to the Knesset, Israel's parliament, it is striking just how grovelling it is. Cameron...

Western governments are turning full circle over Ukraine- from hailing the protesters in Maidan as revolutionaries to wondering who is going to foot the bill for the bankrupt country...

In October last year, the United Arab Emirates stepped in to bail-out the debt-ridden Serbian economy. The deal promised billions in loans and investments, averting a looming debt crisis...

Outraged media gathered to protest outside the Egyptian Embassy in London yesterday over the detention and prosecution of journalists for alleged "terrorist" offences. The disgraceful behaviour of the unelected...

Field Marshal Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, Egypt's contender to the presidency and leader of the recent coup-d'etat, headed to Moscow in early February for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin....

The recent crisis in Turkish democracy, caused by the attempted bureaucratic coup by followers of the Gülen Movement against the civilian government, has led to a plethora of Western...

This week, the head of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, travelled to Israel and addressed the Knesset. It did not go according to plan. During Schulz's speech, several far-right...

On January 17, 2014, Reuters quoted sources saying Russia has increased its supply of military equipment to Syria in the recent period. The equipment includes armed vehicles, drones and...

Earlier this month in London Twiggy Garcia, a courageous barman, made an attempt to place Tony Blair under citizens' arrest. This action may have been largely symbolic, but it...

Despite the obvious differences between Turkey and Iran in terms of their political systems and foreign policies, the relations between the two countries appear to be governed by geographical...

Who benefits from corruption in Turkey? This is a critical question that must be answered in order for us to know the truth about what led us to this...

The British oil and gas company BG Group yesterday issued force majeure notices on its LNG agreements in Egypt because of unexpectedly high diversions of gas to the domestic...

International relations based on a country's political interests serve as the underlying reason for the volatile nature of foreign policy. When considering regional and global developments, a country can...