Qatar's ruler met Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Tehran Thursday, state television reported, as talks falter on bringing Washington back into a 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and major powers. Qatar has added the Iran nuclear dispute to the list of diplomatic hotspots where it has sought to play a...

With the lira's value tumbles to historic lows and annual inflation runs at nearly 70 percent, the refugee question regularly pops up in political debates in Turkey.

The UK Home Office affirmed that “an electronic visa waiver allows the holder to travel to the UK without obtaining a visa provided they complete an online waiver for each visit.

Once a country has decided to apply for NATO membership, the 30 members of the alliance must agree unanimously to extend a formal invitation, which is followed by membership negotiations. Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto has said his country Finland could become a full member of NATO by October.

The move helps draw a line under a major diplomatic standoff on the back of coronavirus restrictions that together closed the crossings for two years.

The sanctions include a ban on transactions and the entry into Russian ports of vessels linked to the affected companies.

Iran's intelligence ministry announced Wednesday that two Europeans had been arrested on accusations of seeking to "destabilize the country", without specifying their nationality. "Two Europeans, who had entered the country with the aim of unleashing chaos and destabilizing society, were identified and arrested," the ministry said in a statement. The...

Qatar's emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, is to visit Tehran Thursday following the Iranian president's visit to Doha, Iran's official IRNA news agency reported. It added that the visit would focus on cooperation for the 2022 FIFA World Cup to be held in Doha from November.

Abu Aqleh, a Palestinian Christian, was a prominent figure in the channel's Arabic news service. While the Qatar-based channel said she was targeted deliberately, Israeli PM Naftali Bennett said she was "likely" killed in Palestinian gunfire.

Lebanon's elections Sunday won't yield a seismic shift despite widespread discontent with a graft-tainted political class blamed for a painful economic crisis and a deadly disaster, experts say. Given Lebanon's sectarian-based politics, it will likely "reproduce the political class and give it internal and international legitimacy", said Rima Majed of...

The meeting will cover the strategic partnership between Jordan and the United States as well as the latest regional and international developments.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visited gas-producing ally Algeria for talks Tuesday as a European drive to secure alternative supplies gathers pace. Lavrov, who arrived in Algiers late Monday, was due to hold talks with both Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra and President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, Algerian reports said. His visit is...

More than one million Afghans have sought refuge in Iran since the Taliban returned to power in August, according to Iran's state news agency IRNA.

The embargo on Russian oil, which is part of a sixth package of EU sanctions under discussion, is being resisted by some member states that rely on Russian oil to keep their economies running and are seeking guarantees of alternative sources.

Enrique Mora has played a key role as an intermediary between the United States and Iran during a year of on-off talks in Vienna that have been at a standstill since March. He will meet with Ali Bagheri, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said at a...

Saudi Space Commission Board of Directors Chairman Abdullah Amer Alswaha is on a tour of the US to develop the space sector and cooperate with various space and technology organizations.

Russia invaded Ukraine in February, in part to thwart Kyiv's tilt towards integration with the EU and NATO.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday pledged that Turkey would not drive Syrian refugees back to their home country despite pressure from opposition parties. Turkey is today home to more than 3.6 million Syrian refugees who fled after civil war broke out in 2011.

The European Union's coordinator for talks between Iran and world powers over restoring a frayed 2015 nuclear deal will visit Tehran this week, Iran's foreign ministry said Monday. The date of Mora's arrival in Iran's capital has not been confirmed, but local press reported he is expected on Tuesday.

Some 130,000 Lebanese expatriates out of 225,000 registered voters cast their ballots, foreign ministry official Hadi Hashem said, releasing preliminary figures. In 2018, roughly 50,000 people out of 90,000 registered voters abroad voted, a turnout of 56 percent.

Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said that "we are against the war in Ukraine, just as we are against the war in Yemen, in Afghanistan, in Syria, in Iraq, or in any other part of the world.

Russia will celebrate its 1945 victory over Nazi Germany Monday with a show of military might as its army battles Kyiv's forces in the east of Ukraine, where 60 people were killed in an air strike on a school sheltering civilians. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that 60 were killed...

Qatar has warned against the plans of the Israeli occupation authorities to approve about 4000 new settlement units in the occupied West Bank.

President Joe Biden was clear from the moment he entered office -- China is the main international competitor and should be the top concern for US foreign policy. Then Russia invaded Ukraine. After months devoted to supporting Ukraine and punishing Russian President Vladimir Putin, Biden is shifting focus back to...

Millions of Filipinos thronged primary schools and other polling stations Monday to elect a new president, with the son of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos the favourite to win the high-stakes election. Nearly 40 years after the patriarch was deposed by a popular revolt and the family chased into exile, Ferdinand...

The G7 club of wealthy nations committed Sunday to phasing out its dependency on Russian oil and issued a scathing statement accusing President Vladimir Putin of bringing "shame" on Russia with his invasion of Ukraine. The statement from the Group of Seven -- France, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, Britain and...

Our sacred duty is to hold back the ideological successors of those who were defeated" in World War II, which Moscow dubs "the great patriotic war," said Putin, as he urged Russians to "take revenge"

Hundreds of Tunisians demonstrated Sunday in a show of support for President Kais Saied and a series of extraordinary measures he took since last July that critics have slammed as a "coup". The rallies come as Saied faces mounting criticism over his July 2021 power grab, in which he sacked...

Lebanese expatriates in 48 countries including France and the United Arab Emirates voted Sunday ahead of the May 15 parliamentary elections, state media reported.

More Syrian children are in need than at any time since a devastating civil war erupted over a decade ago, but funding for them is "dwindling", the United Nations warned Sunday. "Children's needs, both inside Syria and in neighboring countries, are growing," said Adele Khodr, UNICEF's Middle East chief.

A year after its devastating war with Israel, Hamas is faced with a dilemma: to keep up the armed struggle or to lay low and reconstruct the Gaza Strip? On May 10, 2021, weeks of clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinians in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem...

The Tunisian side highlighted the importance of joining forces with Sharjah, which will reflect positively on the efforts to protect and preserve the heritage.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that hundreds of people had been removed from the Azovstal steel plant in Azov, and that preparations for a second stage of evacuation comprising the wounded and medics were under way.

North Korea fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile Saturday, Seoul said, its second missile launch in three days, after the United States warned Pyongyang could be preparing for a nuclear test.

The US has said that it opposed Israel’s plans to build new settlements in occupied Palestinian territories after Israeli officials said they would approve 4,000 new housing units in the West Bank.

The Taliban on Saturday imposed one of the harshest restrictions on Afghanistan's women since seizing power, ordering them to wear the all-covering burqa in public. The militants took back control of the country in August last year, promising a softer rule than their last stint in power between 1996 and...

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Biden said current funding was "nearly exhausted" and the US and its allies must "keep the weapons and ammunition flowing to Ukraine, without interruption for Ukraine to succeed."

Last week Russia cut off gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria as the Kremlin reacted to tightening EU sanctions.

Morocco and Spain on Friday committed to strengthening cooperation on irregular migration following a reset in relations after a months-long rift. "Faced with the shared challenges leading from the action of migrant trafficking networks and the unstable regional environment, the two parties decided to strengthen their coordination and information exchange...

US giant ExxonMobil announced in April the discovery of three new oil deposits in Guyana, raising estimates of the country's oil reserves to the equivalent of 11 billion barrels. Those discoveries fueled Guyana's existing border dispute with Venezuela, which wants to explore territorial waters claimed by both countries.

The meetings covered means of enhancing military and defense cooperation between Jordan and the United States.

The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) said in a statement that the decision to postpone "was taken by all the stakeholders after carefully considering the pandemic situation and the size of the Games".

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch on Friday called on Algerian authorities to lift "arbitrary travel bans" on activists from the diaspora. The watchdogs singled out the cases of three Algerian-Canadians prevented from returning to their homes in Canada between January and April. "Although one of the three was finally...

Human rights groups on Friday warned Tehran will try to use an upcoming visit to Iran by a UN expert in order to avoid accountability. Alena Douhan, the special rapporteur focused on the impact of unilateral sanctions, is due to begin a visit to Iran from Saturday, the United Nations...

The MoU aims to enhance cooperation between the two countries in the areas of financial auditing and performance control.

Saudi Arabia and United States Minister of IT, Eng. Abdullah bin Amer Al-Sawaha who is on a visit to the US met the president and COO of Omnicom Media Group Daryl Simm.

The Russian military had announced a three-day ceasefire at the site starting on Thursday, but a Ukrainian commander said there was still heavy fighting at the sprawling Azovstal complex, where hundreds of soldiers and civilians have been holed up for weeks under heavy bombardment.

Overloaded trucks and cars packed with families ply narrow, bumpy mountain roads surrounding this Yemeni city long-besieged by Huthi rebels -- evidence that the terms of a truce have yet to be met. Announced just over a month ago, the truce called for warring parties to reopen the main roads...

Israeli forces launched a manhunt Friday for attackers who killed three people in the central city of Elad as the country marked the anniversary of its founding, in the latest incident of deadly violence. The search was seeking what police described as "one or two terrorists", who remained at large...