Europe & Russia

Catherine Ashton, the EU Foreign Affairs High Representative, remains the only foreign official to have met with ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi during his detention. Shortly after the coup...

One recent tweet summed up the feelings of many of its own citizens about Turkey: "It would have been a very enjoyable country if only we weren't its citizens."...

Russia is keen to capitalise on the opportunities presented by the Iranian nuclear deal, as Gulf states become open to working with new international partners. However, it's unclear the...

The Geneva II conference on Syria, first announced by US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in September 2013, will finally convene in Switzerland...

Turkey is going through another tumultuous period six months after the Gezi Parki protests that shook the country. The de facto dispute between the Gulen Movement (GM) and the...

In recent months Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) have been at the centre of controversy and the subject of passionate debate....

France's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Monday that Western countries will not intervene to combat terrorism in the south of Libya as demanded by Niger. Fabius told Radio...

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has announced that Turkey and Israel are very close to resuming normal ties, Turkish and Israeli media reported on Sunday. According to the Turkish...

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu convened senior ministers Sunday to discuss ways of fighting boycott and divestment initiatives proliferating in Europe and worldwide. Present at the meeting were Netanyahu, Foreign...

Israel's Jerusalem Post published a poll conducted by the Israeli Geocartography Institute, the results of which indicate that 70 per cent of Israeli Jews do not believe the Obama...

French President Francois Hollande said on Friday that the new constitution in Tunisia "proves" the harmony between Islam and democracy. Speaking at a ceremony for the adoption of the...

Foreign Secretary William Hague expressed his concerns on Friday about the detention of journalists and increasing restrictions on the mass media in Egypt. The British minister called upon the...

Representatives from Israel's Leviathan Gas Company met with members of the British Gas Group in Cyprus last week to discuss exporting gas to Egypt, Israel's Calcalist business newspaper said....

Tunisia's Ennahda Party Leader Rashid Ghannouchi met with Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday. Following their meeting Ghannouchi told the Anadolu news agency the two leaders discussed...

Israeli policies have been severely criticised this week by human rights NGOs, with a particular focus on the exclusion of Palestinians from their land in both the West Bank...

Israel is angered that the head of the Danish parliament, Mogens Lykketoft, has scheduled a visit this weekend to Ramallah and the Gaza Strip, an itinerary that does not...

Washington has ruled out the collapse of the American-Russian deal on the destruction of Syria's chemical arsenal despite the Syrian regime failing to meet its promises to deliver the...

Turkey and Israel are close to reaching a deal for compensation on the killing, in 2010, of Turks on-board of Mavi Marmara by Israeli commandoes, when the ship was...

The EU's ambassador to Israel, Lars Faaborg-Andersen, warned on Monday that Israel would find itself in complete isolation should the peace talks with the Palestinians collapse. In an interview...

British Foreign Secretary William Hague has called on Moscow to put more pressure on the Syrian regime in order to accelerate the destruction of its chemical weapons. The appeal...

A massive media campaign has started in Egypt against Britain's Guardian newspaper. Egyptian pro-coup media and even British-Egyptians have labelled the left-of-centre Guardian as "affiliated to the Muslim Brotherhood",...

Below is the text from Dr Maha Azzam's Open letter to the Guardian. Sir, Mr Blair's recent comments in support of the military coup in Egypt are both misinformed...

EU officials have confirmed that further measures targeting Israeli settlements are prepared, with the timing of their implementation directly related to future settlement construction and the status of Kerry's...

An official at the Foreign Ministry has admitted Israel's failure to stop European campaigns calling for economic boycotts of the state. The official made his comments after remarks by...

Europe's High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton has said that the EU and the Middle East Quartet will provide "unprecedented" support for the Palestinians and Israelis if they...

Turkey will sign a technical cooperation agreement with Jordan on Monday, the first such agreement between the two countries. Talks will also start on Monday to discuss means of...

The Egyptians for Democracy UK  condemns Tony Blair's misguided remarks on Egypt which he made in a televised interview with Sky News Arabia during his latest visit to Cairo....

The UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) has reported that about 45,000 immigrants, most of them Syrians and some Palestinians, have risked their lives in the Mediterranean to escape...

Former Welsh Secretary and Middle East minister Peter Hain is tonight set to make a speech at Swansea University where he will claim that a one-state solution for Israel...

The European Union Ambassador to Jordan, Joanna Wronecka, said on Wednesday that the EU recognises the country's vital role in supporting Syrian refugees and is "committed to help" the...

The International Quartet envoy to the peace process, Tony Blair, has arrived in Cairo on Wednesday for a short visit that will last only a few hours. Egyptian sources...

An Israeli ministerial council will convene on Wednesday to discuss Israel's growing fears of future European boycotts over the settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. According to the Israeli...