Former Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Dore Gold has said that Israeli mutual relations with many Arab countries, mainly Saudi Arabia and the UAE, are developing, citing a secret visit...

The European Union failed to agree on new sanctions against Iran on Monday amid Italy’s opposition and fears that punishing Tehran for its missile programme and regional role would not...

Turkey will on Tuesday receive the European Commission’s most critical report since it launched its bid to join the European Union over a decade ago, with Brussels warning that...

The chair of the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI), Pier Antonio Panzeri, said on Saturday that he intends to discuss at Parliament the repercussions of the blockade...

Bahraini authorities have barred a Danish parliamentarian and an Irish human rights activist, who were scheduled to meet Bahraini activists, from entering Manama yesterday, according to Al-Khaleej Online. Danish...

Everybody wondered who would let go of the rope first, the EU or Turkey. On Monday in Varna, both decided to hold tight. As Austrian and Dutch leaders and...

German, UK, Italy urge a restart of peace process

European Union ambassadors discussed on Wednesday possible new sanctions on Iran, diplomats said, under plans aimed at persuading US President Donald Trump to preserve an international nuclear deal with...

A high-level European delegation arrived in the Negev yesterday to investigate Israel’s demolition policy towards unrecognised villages in the region. The delegation arrived at the invitation of the International...

Lebanese President Michel Aoun called for the European Union to open its markets to Lebanese exports, the Anadolu Agency reported yesterday. During a meeting with the Commissioner for European Neighbourhood...

The European Union has removed six Egyptians from its list of persons, entities and bodies subject to restrictive measures. According to the documents published by the EU official newspaper...

The Sudanese authorities on Wednesday foiled an operation to smuggle twelve people into Libya. A spokesman for the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Colonel Abdul Rahman al-Jaali said “his forces...

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has called on Hamas to transfer control of the Gaza Strip to Ramallah saying it was prepared to assume its full responsibilities there, as tensions between...

The EU statistical office, Eurostat said the number of people applying for asylum in the European Union has declined by nearly half in the past year compared with 2016....

Republican US Senator Bob Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he expects President Donald Trump to pull out of the Iran nuclear agreement in May. “The...

Any new European sanctions against Iran will have a direct effect on the nuclear deal struck between world powers and Tehran, Iran’s deputy foreign minister said Friday, according to...

Over 16,000 African migrants have been repatriated from camps in Libya under the EU’s emergency plan for this year, the Union’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini confirmed yesterday. European...

East Jerusalem residents routinely have their homes demolished and building permits arbitrarily denied

Algerian Ambassador to Belgium Ammar Belani stated that the meetings the Algerian delegation has held with the European Commission during the recent partnership week emphasized the need to adopt...

Ironically, Maghreb governments grieve the missed opportunities of their decadent union, but refrain from taking genuine steps to bridge divides. Moroccan officials, for instance, frequently extol the benefits of...

Turkish warplanes struck pro-Syrian government forces in the northwestern Afrin region of Syria on Saturday, killing at least 36 of them, as Turkey’s assault in the Kurdish region gathered...

European countries should look at the broader economic benefits of increased Gulf travel rather than focusing on the fate of national airlines, a senior UAE official said ahead of...

Iran will not negotiate over its ballistic missiles until the United States and Europe dismantle their nuclear weapons, a top Iranian military official said on Saturday, keeping up the...

Turkey is set to donate $5 million to aid in the fight against terrorism and trafficking in the turbulent Sahel, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced yesterday during his...

A spokeswoman for the Qatari foreign ministry said yesterday that her country will not change its policy even if the blockade continues forever. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Lulwa Al Khater,...

European Union foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, has sent a letter to the foreign ministers of Russia, Turkey and Iran urging them to support the ceasefire in Syria’s eastern...

Omar Barghouti, human rights defender and co-founder of the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, spoke at the European Parliament yesterday, despite the best efforts by pro-Israel advocacy...

The Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister revealed on Wednesday that the EU is planning to talk with the US Administration to modify its “deal of the century”, Safa news agency...

Eighty per cent of Iraq’s immediate humanitarian needs have been met by Iraqis themselves, as they seek to rebuild vast swathes of the country post-Daesh. The push for the...

Last week’s visit to the UK by Iranian deputy foreign minister Abbas Araghchi appears to signal warming relations between Iran and the United Kingdom. Araghchi’s meeting with UK officials,...

A European Union official yesterday denied the bloc had decided to recognise an independent Palestinian state, saying the conditions for such a decision have not been met. The European...

The European Union’s Court of Justice has ruled that the fishing deal between Morocco and the EU cannot include the waters of the Western Sahara as a non self-governing...