UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani for the release of US citizen and former UN official, Baquer Namazi, a UN spokesman said on Thursday. The pair...

There is no doubt that the result of the referendum regarding the independence of the Kurdish region is a great risk on the part of the Kurds and their...

Germany will do all it can to persuade the United States not to abandon the Iranian nuclear agreement, whatever the outcome of German elections on Sunday, Foreign Minister Sigmar...

Police in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad have arrested five Omani and three Qatari nationals who had arrived in the city to select minor Indian girls as their brides. The police have also...

UK spokesman acknowledges Balfour was a Nakba for Palestinians during a television interview

Turkish fighters have attacked positions held by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq. In a statement issued yesterday, the Turkish General Staff said: “The fighters continued operations...

The near-absence of Palestine contrasted sharply with the promotion of Israel’s international positioning in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the UN General Assembly. This is not the...

Famous Saudi journalist and writer Jamal Khashoggi has come under renewed criticism by Saudis, including Prince Khalid Al Saud after publishing an article on the Washington Post, Rassd.com reported...

An “unrecognised” Bedouin village in the Negev is urging the Israeli authorities to connect its schools to the national electrical grid. Currently, Wadi El-Na’am’s schools and kindergartens – attended...

Kuwait is ready to host parties to the Yemen civil war to sign a final peace agreement, Kuwait’s news agency KUNA reported. In a speech before the United Nations...

Chief of Hamas’ Political Bureau Ismail Haniyeh is expected to beat Palestinian Authority (PA) and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas in any upcoming elections, Al-Resalah newspaper reported yesterday. A referendum...

Economic, trade and cultural normalisation of relations with Israel, let alone political normalisation and security cooperation, has always been criminalised by the Arab states. However, this did not prevent...

Senior US and Iranian officials have made separate last minute attempts to find alternative to the planned Kurdish independence referendum which is due to take place on Monday, Kurdish...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to establish an international trade zone along the border with Jordan, a police investigation into corruption has suggested according to Israel’s Channel 2....

Israeli occupation police yesterday banned Sheikh Najeh Bkeerat, the director of Waqf Property in Al-Aqsa Mosque, from accessing the Muslim holy site for three months, Quds Press reported. Sheikh...

It was only last month that the Houthis called upon Saudi Arabia to initiate a truce to stop hostilities across Yemen. Sadly, it was ignored by Saudi Arabia, even...