He said Abbas may 'end up like Arafat'

The Lebanese government will request “technical assistance” from the IMF to draw up a stabilisation plan to resolve the country’s financial and economic crisis, including plans to restructure public...

Turkey will not vacate any of its 12 observation posts in Idlib Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said yesterday, adding that Ankara has told its soldiers to retaliate forcefully to...

The Supervisory Committee on the implementation of the Prisoner Exchange Agreement between Yemen’s warring parties held a meeting yesterday in the Jordanian capital, Amman. Attended by representative of the...

A negotiated solution to the ‘Palestinian-Israeli conflict’, at least the way envisaged by successive US administrations, has failed. Now, Palestinians and their allies would have to explore a whole...

The Sudanese government announced, on Tuesday, its commitment and approval to extradite people, against whom the International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants on charges of committing “war...

Arab ambassadors accredited to the United Kingdom called on the British government to reject the Deal of the Century, as it does not fulfil the minimum legitimate rights of...

Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir, facing a possible appearance before the international war crimes tribunal, defied rebellions, economic crises and the hostility of the West before being overthrown as president by...

The EU’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, urged Israel on Tuesday not to annex the Jordan Valley, a large swathe of the occupied West Bank, warning of Palestinian protests if...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, appearing before the United Nations Security Council, angrily rejected US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace proposal on Tuesday as a gift to Israel and...

The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s (NATO) public image in Turkey worsened sharply last year, according to a Pew Research Centre survey released yesterday. The survey said 53 per cent...

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said on Monday that the US deal of the century does not give even the least amount of justice to the Palestinians, news...

Further proof of the Palestinian Authority’s rejection of Palestinian land, history and memory was articulated recently by Mahmoud Abbas’s spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, who basically discounted Zionist colonisation and...

Palestinians have dismissed reports that a delay in bringing a resolution to the UN Security Council rejecting President Donald Trump’s “peace plan” is due to a lack of support...

Italy has called on European Union countries to join it in pressing the Egyptian authorities to immediately release Egyptian activist and researcher at Bologna University, Patrick Zaki, saying it...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Monday announced another case of coronavirus, raising the number of confirmed cases to eight, according to the official Emirates News Agency (WAM). The UAE...

The situation in Idlib could be the greatest failure of the international community in human history, according to a member of the Turkish Presidency Security and Foreign Policy Council,...

South Africa’s President, Cyril Ramaphosa, compared US President Donald Trump’s so-called “peace plan” for Palestine to apartheid South Africa’s Bantustan system. The 33rd African Union Summit was launched yesterday...

A non-aggression agreement will be signed between Israel the Gulf countries in the near future, former Qatar prime minister said in tweets yesterday. Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim wrote: “Today,...

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Sunday that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is the sole peace partner for his country, Yedioth Ahronoth has reported. Abbas, confirmed...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Sunday that he raised the cases of Canadians being detained in Egypt with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Reuters reports. “We always stand...

At the African Union (AU) summit today, in Addis Ababa, Chairman of the (AU) Commission, Moussa Faki, emphasised the “necessity of a political solution in Libya.” Faki called on...

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and a non-OPEC technical panel have recommended extending a current agreement to reduce oil supply until the end of 2020, Algerian...

Libya’s Azzawiya Oil Refining Company said today that it was forced to stop refining operations due to a lack of crude supplies and no inventory, Reuters reports. A source...

An OPEC, non-OPEC technical panel has recommended extending a current oil supply cut pact until the end of 2020 and more output reductions due to the impact of the...

Sudan’s government is requesting that the UN deploy a peacekeeping mission in the country to help during the transitional period, a spokesman for Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok said today...

Addressing the annual summit of the African Union (AU) leaders, the chairman of the bloc heavily criticised the US’ so-called peace plan in Middle East, Anadolu Agency reports. “We...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said yesterday that Africa was sidelined from talks on Libya and urged the reverse of it, Anadolu Agency reports. “We want the Africa representative to...

While UN initiatives are underway to gather a 5+5 military commission in Geneva for a permanent truce in Libya, eastern-based warlord Khalifa Haftar is speeding up military deployments with...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Tunisia to repatriate nearly 200 children of suspected Daesh fighters who are currently stranded or held in crowded camps or prisons across...

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas are expected to meet next week to declare their opposition to US President Donald Trump administration’s “deal of...

Israel has launched an attack on a renowned children’s rights organisation, prompted by an invitation by Belgium to host the NGO at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Defence...