- Israeli President Isaac Herzog is preparing to visit Turkey, his office said Tuesday, in a rare trip following years of...
A presidency statement said that a senior Turkish delegation, including a top aide to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was due in Israel this week
Herzog's office had declined to comment on the prospective visit until Tuesday's statement, which gave no indication of a possible date
- Europe's poorest country Ukraine's corruption-plagued economy has suffered from increased tensions over the possibility of an invasion by Russia.
US could offer $1 billion in credit guarantees to support Ukraine, says White House official
US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan repeated on Sunday that Russia could attack Ukraine "any day now"
- The signing of cooperation agreements and MoUs ‘mark the beginning of a new era in relations’ between the two countries...
Erdogan visits UAE for first time in nearly a decade to revive relations that were long strained by regional disputes
The two countries vow 'to confront a number of common challenges" through dialogue and diplomatic resolve
- The visit is the latest such initiative following the US-brokered 2020 Abraham Accords.
Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates became only the third and fourth Arab states to establish ties with Israel
Following Egypt and Jordan, they signed on to the pacts negotiated under former US president Donald Trump
- Amir Khan Muttaqi, a key member of the Taliban leadership, met in Doha with ambassadors from the six-nation GCC on...
The Taliban have been struggling to unfreeze billions of dollars of assets abroad and get sanctions lifted.
Arab envoys emphasized the need to help Afghanistan's "urgent humanitarian needs" as the country confronts widespread hunger caused by drought.
- The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) approved the establishment of the Afghanistan Humanitarian Trust Fund (AHTF), which will channel humanitarian and...
The Afghanistan Humanitarian Trust Fund will be administered by the bank and receive contributions from member states.
For project financing, it approved $337.63 million for transport, agriculture, and human capital development projects in Guinea, Cote d’Ivoire, and Senegal.
- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reached Abu Dhabi on Monday for his first visit to the UAE in nearly a...
Turkey and the UAE have backed opposing sides in the Libyan civil war and in a Gulf diplomatic crisis
But those tensions eased after Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed traveled to Ankara in November
- US officials in the United Arab Emirates met with Afghans after a protest in Abu Dhabi this week and discussed...
The UAE was one of several Arab Gulf countries that assisted with the evacuation of Afghans fleeing the Taliban after the group seized power in August last year
The US embassy said that it was aware of the "peaceful demonstration" to express "concerns about future resettlement and processing for onward travel"
- Iran is engaged in negotiations with Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia directly and with the United States indirectly to...
But the US unilaterally withdrew from deal in 2018 under then-president Donald Trump and reimposed economic sanctions.
Sanctions prompted Tehran to begin rolling back on its commitments. The drive to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal resumed in late November.





















