Tag: MIDDLE EAST

ANKARA Japan on Tuesday reaffirmed its support for an independent state of Palestine. “Japan’s support for a two-state solution remains ...

ANKARA The Japanese foreign minister will pay an official visit to Turkey and other countries in the Middle East from ...

Turkey welcomed the reopening of a strategic coastal road linking Libya’s east to its west, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said ...

Instead of threatening to go to war for a tyrannical regime, Washington should reclaim control of US Middle Eastern policy ...

It is time for international powers to end their short-sighted action in Libya and step up to find a solution ...

The dissident journalist warned Saudi Arabia that its war on Yemen would have deadly consequences for the kingdom. A year ...

Gaza-based Mahmoud was accused of belonging to the armed Palestinian faction despite no having no connection to it. After a ...

More than 500 Iraqi protesters have been killed by security services and militias with little indication that those responsible will ...

Iranian backed militias seem just as powerful as they did before this latest escalation as demonstrated by the ongoing crisis ...

The Iranian general was the key figure in stretching Tehran's influence across the Middle East. His death will be a ...

Sifting through Trump’s most recent tweets and speeches reveal insults and injuries to the IraqisUS President Donald Trump has issued ...

The pandemic has altered our temporal imagination and accelerated political tensions.The term the “post-Covid-19 world” has already entered our collective ...

In the midst of fighting a pandemic and dealing with US sanctions, Iran has launched a military satellite to showcase ...

Black-Iraqis have a 1,300-year-old history in the country and are the descendants of east African slaves who rebelled against their ...

Whatever the immediate cause, the reason for the deadly explosion in Beirut is criminal neglect and a rotten system built ...

Having been under blockade for more than three years by its Gulf neighbours, Doha is in no position to completely ...

Just as the explosion has permanently altered Beirut’s urban landscape, so has it made clear the monumental shifts in the ...

The Middle East is beset by division and conflict, and the path forward is to play to its strengths.In the ...

Palestine has once again displayed the limitations of Arab and Islamic political organisations and their impotence in resolving any problems ...

French consulate in the Saudi Red Sea port of Jeddah, where a Saudi citizen wounded a guard in a knife ...

People walk past a sign painted on the street that reads "mandatory mask" during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease ...

A demonstrator attends a rally against the government's restrictions following the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Berlin, Germany August 29, 2020. ...

Turkey's Defence Minister Hulusi Akar criticised the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for committing “malicious acts” in Libya and Syria and ...

Hundreds of Jewish settlers forced their way into Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque complex on Thursday, according to a Palestinian agency. ...

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said they launched ballistic missiles from "the depths of the Earth" on Wednesday during ...

Jordan has set Nov. 10 as the date for parliamentary elections, hours after King Abdullah issued a royal decree to ...

Residents of the city of Tel Aviv woke up Wednesday to a jarring site – a pop-up exhibit depicting a ...

A study published by a High Follow-up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel Kamal Khatib, revealed that the Israeli authorities ...

Iran has moved a mock-up U.S. aircraft carrier to the Strait of Hormuz, satellite images show, suggesting it will use ...

A weapons depot belonging to Iraq's federal police force exploded Sunday in Baghdad's southern suburbs because of high summer temperatures ...

The U.S. special representative for Iran on Sunday sought to rally Gulf allies as Washington tried to extend an arms ...

Middle Eastern energy producers are expected to earn $270 billion less in oil revenue compared to last year as the ...

Yemen's Houthi rebels have given U.N. inspectors the green light to inspect a decaying oil tanker abandoned off the coast ...

The recent death of Palestinian prisoner Sa'di al-Gharabli in Israel has put the issue of long-serving Palestinian prisoners under the ...

“Success has many fathers, failure is an orphan,” the wise ones say. I will add that failure gets you dumped ...

Turkish volunteers transfer boxes of humanitarian aid into the trucks to be sent to Syria in Sanliurfa, Turkey on July ...

Iran's low voter turnout reflects a wider malaise in a country long buckling under sanctions and more recently also hit ...

Israel's public health director quit Tuesday amid a spike in new coronavirus cases, saying it had reopened the economy too ...

Education is a unique topic about which everyone has an opinion, regardless of their profession or background. On one hand, ...

Israel’s Defense Ministry announced the successful launch of a new spy satellite early Monday, giving the country what officials said ...

As the coronavirus pandemic accelerates in many continents, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported Saturday with the highest single-day increase ...

Qatar's Foreign Minister Mohamed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani has hailed his country's strategic relations with Turkey. "Strategic relations between Qatar and ...

The United Nations and the Arab League made a joint appeal Wednesday for Israel to abandon its plans to annex ...

Iran's president warned Wednesday that the U.N. nuclear watchdog risks losing its independence after it adopted a resolution urging access ...

When World War I ended, the United Kingdom and France occupied numerous countries in Africa and Asia, most notably the ...

Iran test-fired a "new generation" of cruise missiles Thursday, the navy said, in the first such military exercises since 19 ...

An international rights group urged Egyptian authorities Thursday to stop a "campaign of harassment and intimidation” against health care workers ...

The U.N. nuclear watchdog's governing body began meeting on Monday as a row brews over Iran's refusal to allow access ...