Arab League

Ahmed Aboul Gheit, secretary-general of the Arab League, found nothing else to occupy his time other than to declare his support and understanding of the coup carried out by...

Turkey has condemned a statement by the Arab League saying that Ankara is interfering in regional affairs. The allegation is a blow to recent reconciliation efforts between Turkey and...

Qatar today handed over the presidency of the Arab League to Kuwait ahead of the group's next meeting on Thursday, Qatar News Agency (QNA) reported. The Permanent Representative of Qatar to...

Stability in Libya needs a democratic system with Libyan references, news agencies reported Tunisian Foreign Minister Othman Jerandi saying yesterday. In a meeting with officials from Libya, Tunisia, Egypt,...

The former secretary-general of the League of Arab States, Amr Moussa, yesterday resigned from his post as the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Yasser Arafat Foundation....

Ethiopia today rejected what it described as "the unwelcome interference" by the Arab League in the Renaissance Dam crisis. The country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs made the statement in...

The various Libyan factions with different regional, tribal and political affiliations have met for the twentieth time in Geneva but, unfortunately, it was announced on Saturday that they had...

28-year-old Al-Ghadanfar Abu Atwan who has been held in administrative detention without charge or trial since 5 May 2021 has stopped drinking water after 2 months on hunger strike

Sudan has asked the United Nations Security Council to hold an emergency session to discuss the dispute over Ethiopia's Renaissance Dam, the official Sudanese News Agency (SNA) reported. Foreign Minister, Mariam...

Ethiopia reiterated its intention to proceed with the second filling of its Grand Renaissance Dam, stressing that there will be no changes to the schedule. This came in a...

Qatar's Foreign Minister Mohammed Bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani said yesterday that his country would support "brotherly Arab countries" with regards to Ethiopia's Renaissance Dam crisis. Speaking to reporters...

The foreign ministers of Qatar and Egypt met in the Qatari capital Doha ahead of an extraordinary meeting of Arab foreign ministers to discuss the latest developments in the...

The Arab League on Sunday welcomed the UN Human Rights Council's resolution to create an international commission to investigate Israel's violations against the Palestinians, reports Anadolu Agency. In a...

Syria welcomes any initiative that would restore relations with Arab states and all efforts made to achieve this, Minister for Foreign and Expatriates Affairs, Dr Faisal Mekdad, has said....

The Arab League on Thursday condemned the forced eviction of residents of Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in East Jerusalem, calling it "a full-fledged crime", Anadolu Agency reports. "The eviction is...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi has reiterated his support for Syria to be readmitted into the Arab League, a decade after President Bashar Al-Assad's regime was kicked out of...

Jordan's neighbours and allies reacted with statements of support after the Jordanian military said on Saturday that King Abdullah's half-brother and former Crown Prince Hamza bin Hussein had been...

The Assistant Secretary-General of the Arab League, Hossam Zaki, has reiterated the League's offer to help Lebanon overcome its current crises and form a government. Zaki called on the...

Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad has made an official visit to Oman where he met with his counterpart, Sayyid Badr Al-Busaidi, yesterday in Muscat. He also met with Lieutenant...

Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed Bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani said that the reasons that led to Syria being suspended from the Arab League remain valid. In a joint press...

New "peace-making" winds are blowing on Arab-Turkish relations and helping to ease the tension in the search for common ground. Flattering messages are being exchanged between Ankara, Cairo, and...

On the sidelines of the 155th session of the Arab League meeting last week, Egypt chaired a meeting of the Arab Ministerial Committee. The league's Secretary-General, Ahmed Aboul Gheit,...

UAE Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, said yesterday that Syria's return to the Arab fold is "inevitable". "The Caesar Act is the biggest challenge facing joint...

Arab Foreign Ministers have reappointed 78-year-old Egyptian diplomat Ahmed Aboul Gheit as the Secretary-General of the Cairo-based organisation during its 156th meeting. Aboul Gheit was first elected to the...

Turkey has "completely rejected" on Friday the decisions adopted by the Arab League foreign ministers' meeting held on Wednesday, accusing Turkey of meddling in internal affairs of Arab countries,...

Arab Foreign Ministers approved on Wednesday the reappointment of Ahmed Aboul Gheit for a second term as Secretary-General of the Arab League. The vote was said to be unanimous....

Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein has called for Syria's membership to the Arab League to be restored, saying it would achieve the principle of integration in Arab work and...

Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri arrived in the Egyptian capital Cairo yesterday on an official visit during which he will meet President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and a number of...

Arab parliament Speaker Adel Abdul-Rahman Al-Asoumi welcomed on Monday a presidential decree on holding parliamentary, presidential and Palestinian National Council elections, a statement sent to the media announced. He reiterated the...

Israel's annexation of the occupied Syrian Golan Heights "is null and void and has no legal standing," Arab news agencies reported the Arab League saying yesterday. In a statement...

The League of Arab States again called for the need to exert pressure on Israel to release Palestinian prisoners, especially the elderly, the sick, and people with weak immunity,...

The State of Palestine has recently abandoned its right to chair the Council of the Arab League for the current session, in response to the wave of normalisation with the Israeli...