International Organisations

The global and regional echoes of Chinese mediation between Saudi Arabia and Iran will reverberate for quite some time. China announced its first diplomatic breakthrough in the Middle East...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned, Thursday, that Lebanon is passing through a "very dangerous" stage amid deepening economic collapse, warning that failure to implement urgent reforms would plunge...

A Russian "expert" recently made controversial comments about Turkiye following the 6 February earthquakes. Semyon Bagdasarov is a reserve army colonel of Armenian descent. He served as a deputy...

When the then British Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George W Bush flouted international law and unleashed Shock and Awe on Iraq in March 2003, the attack...

Efforts to resume the stalled talks in Vienna aimed at the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal have gathered momentum again amid geopolitical shifts spurred by the Tehran-Riyadh rapprochement,...

The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) has called on the UK government to refer Israel to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes committed in Palestine, and...

Secretary-General of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, Sheikh Ali Qaradaghi, said yesterday that the Muslim world is facing an historic test withh regards Al-Aqsa Mosque and the attacks by Israeli occupation forces....

More than 200,000 people have signed a petition calling for putting an end to the demolition of Palestinian homes as a first step towards dismantling apartheid, Amnesty International said yesterday. The rights group's petition, named Demolish...

Egypt warmly welcomed Turkiye's Foreign Minister for the first time in a decade that saw relations between the two countries soured over, mainly, what Ankara saw as a "coup"...

Washington: US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, warned on Wednesday that Tunisia urgently needs to reach an agreement with the International Monetary Fund, after the European Union expressed concern...

The World Bank said, on Wednesday, it had approved a new $7 billion partnership agreement with Egypt for 2023-2027 with a focus on boosting private sector jobs, provision of...

Israel's most hardline government came into power on 29 December 2022, with its members announcing their plans to ignore international laws and work towards annexation of Palestinian land, how should the EU react?

On 20 March 2003, a US-led coalition invaded Iraq, a tragic event which has had a lasting impact on the country and the region. The invasion was launched just...

China, on Wednesday, slammed Israeli Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich's denial of the existence of the Palestinian people, calling it "irresponsible", Anadolu News Agency reports. "The Israeli senior official is...

Much has been made of the West's decades-long energy suicide, especially amid its acceleration over the past few years. The introduction of policies to drive forward a green revolution...

At least 10 Yemeni soldiers have been killed in renewed clashes in the Marib province, two military sources have told AFP. The oil-producing province is one of the main...

The Refugee Council has said that the cost of detaining and accommodating people under the government's illegal immigration bill could be more than £9 billion ($10.6 billion) in the...

Settlements from which Tel Aviv withdrew in the Gaza Strip in 2005 are "part of the Land of Israel, and a day will come when we will return to...

The Middle East may have an abundance of oil and gas, but it has very few natural water sources. This is fast becoming a source of tension. According to...

Jordan's former deputy prime minister said on Tuesday that the Kingdom has to prepare for a "real confrontation" with Israel, Quds Press has reported. Mamdouh Al-Abadi made his comment...

Russian investors established more than 1,300 companies in Turkiye in 2022, a significant increase from the previous year, a new report has revealed. Issued by the Economic Policy Research Foundation of...

A European Union spokesperson criticised the Israeli Knesset's decision to repeal articles from the 2005 Disengagement Law, allowing illegal settlers to return to four illegal West Bank settlements that were evacuated...

Iraq has long had problems with its water supplies. Climate change, which has an impact on the area's security and tranquilly, has made these issues worse.

Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, said on Tuesday, 21 March, 2023, that her country is facing a huge problem related to the stability of Tunisia and the possibility of...

Tunisian President Kais Saied said that his country "refuses interference in its internal affairs because it is not under mandate or guardianship". This came during a speech on Monday,...

Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said Tuesday that attempts by Western countries to isolate Iran have backfired, Anadolu News Agency reports. Iran marked the beginning of the New...

Iraq paid a total of $52.4 billion in war reparations that it owed for Saddam Hussein's 1990 invasion of Kuwait. Iraq was compelled to make this payment when the...

Turkic countries, on Tuesday, welcomed festivities surrounding Nowruz, marking the arrival of spring through various forms of celebrations, Anadolu News Agency reports. Dance and theatre performances, in addition to...

I've been watching the fallout from KC Martin Forde's first public interview since the release of his report examining the handling of anti-Semitism complaints within the UK Labour Party....

A record drought sweeping the Horn of Africa may lead to 135 deaths per day in Somalia from January to June, a study by the Somali health ministry, the...

Israelis believe that Hezbollah and Hamas were behind the Megiddo junction explosion in northern Israel in mid-March. There is also a growing concern that their cooperation could be the...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday that the damage caused by the twin quakes that hit the country on 6 February is estimated at $104 billion. Addressing an...