Turkey and Qatar on Monday raised the possibility of jointly operating Afghanistan's Taliban-controlled airport, as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan set off for two days of talks in Doha.

The landmark 2015 nuclear accord was initially agreed between Iran and Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States. But it began unravelling in 2018 when then US president Donald Trump pulled out and reimposed sanctions, prompting Iran to start exceeding limits on its nuclear program the following year.

Iraqi fishermen live in constant fear of arrest by Iran or Kuwait for mistakenly straying across frontiers.

Ebrahim Raisi, who took office in August, listed inflation, high prices, and tax evasion as among the top challenges facing his government. He was speaking during a television interview on Sunday, December 5, marking his first 100 days in power.

Sudan's top general Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on Sunday denied that military and paramilitary members of the transitional administration could run for the country's July 2023 elections.

During 16 years in power, she navigated Germany through the 2008 financial turmoil and ensuing eurozone debt crisis, the 2015 refugee influx and then the Covid-19 pandemic.

A senior Emirati security official is due in Iran on Monday, ISNA news agency reported, in the latest outreach between the two countries since a downgrading of ties five years ago. UAE National Security Adviser Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed Al-Nahyan "will arrive tomorrow in Tehran" at the invitation of secretary...

The visit will explore diverse areas that serve the interests of the two countries.

"Tunisia will not be built with individualism," UGTT secretary general Noureddine Taboubi told AFP after addressing supporters.

The explosion was heard in the skies over the Iranian city of Badroud, just 20 kilometres from the nuclear plant

The seventh round of nuclear talks ended Friday after five days in Vienna, with delegations returning to their national capitals and expected to go back to Austria next week. Iran had paused the talks in June following the election of ultraconservative President Ebrahim Raisi.

France and Saudi Arabia have committed to "fully engage" to resolve a diplomatic row between the Gulf kingdom and Lebanon, visiting French President Emmanuel Macron said Saturday. 

French President Emmanuel Macron met Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler in Jeddah Saturday to discuss regional stability, in particular crisis-hit Lebanon.

A flight chartered by Paris flew out 258 Afghans who were ‘particularly threatened because of their activities, especially journalists, or because of their links to France, including former locally-recruited civilian personnel for our armies,’ France has said. The same flight carried 11 French nationals and about 60 from the Netherlands,...

Russian representatives from three provinces met with commissioner general of the Jordan Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai.

Sheikh Mohamed has talked to Greece and Ukraine to enhance his country’s bilateral ties with them.

Kordahi had been in the eye of the storm for criticizing the Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen during an interview that was recorded before he became minister in September. The interview was aired on Lebanese TV after he joined the cabinet, and his comments angered Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, and...

The agreements will boost the strategic partnership between the two countries to serve their mutual interests.

Lebanon's Education Ministry should extend the December 4, 2021, school registration deadline for Syrian children and end policies that are blocking Syrian refugee children’s access to education, Human Rights Watch said on Friday. Thousands of Syrian refugee children have been out of school, blocked by policies that require certified educational...

Negotiations in Vienna aimed at reviving the Iran nuclear deal are to be suspended Friday, Iranian media said, as European diplomats expressed "disappointment and concern" at the latest proposals from Iran. Iran said it has submitted two draft proposals for the nuclear agreement, which has been in tatters since the...

The Palestinian Ministry of Finance and the KfW German Development Bank have signed an agreement funded by the European Union to improve the availability and reliability of water supply services in Gaza City and Jabalia. Palestinian media reports said the signing ceremony was attended by the Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad...

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has said that Tehran has gone to Vienna with serious determination and a clear and rational agenda. Iranian media reports said that Amirabdollahian made these remarks in a telephone conversation with his Japanese counterpart Yoshimasa Hayashi on Thursday evening. Regarding the ongoing nuclear talks in...

The expected breakthrough coincided with a visit to the Gulf by French President Emmanuel Macron, who has spearheaded international efforts to help Lebanon out of its worst ever economic crisis. Macron started his two-day tour in Abu Dhabi but was also due to visit Qatar, which Michel Aoun also visited...

Turkey on Thursday called on the Council of Europe to avoid punishing Turkey ahead of a decision this week on whether Ankara could face rare disciplinary proceedings over the case of a jailed activist, Agence France-Presse reported. “Out of respect for the ongoing judicial process, we invite the Council of...

Iran's top diplomat said Thursday that an agreement to revive his country's nuclear deal with world powers was "within reach" but that this depended on the goodwill of the West. Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian also said on Twitter that negotiations in Vienna were "proceeding with seriousness" and that the removal...

Bahrain has stressed the importance of establishing a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction for maintaining regional and international peace and security. An atmosphere free of the weapons of mass destruction would be in the spirit of the implementation of the 1995 Review...

Saudi Arabia's Minister of Environment, Water and Agriculture Abdulrahman Al-Fadley has signed a cooperation agreement with the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Executive Secretary Ibrahim Thiaw, which aims at executing the items of the Global Initiative on Reducing Land Degradation and Enhancing Conservation of Terrestrial Habitats. The agreement...

The MoU was part of joint cooperation for securing the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, between the Qatari Ministry of Defense and the ministries of defense of the countries participating in the event.

Travel links with and within Libya were severely disrupted by the 2011 revolt that overthrew dictator Moamer Gadhafi.

The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) marked its 5th anniversary of the historic ‘Vienna Agreement’ on Tuesday. The agreement, reached at the 171st Meeting of the OPEC Conference held on 30 November 2016 in Vienna, built on the successful ‘Algiers Accord’, reached in Algiers, Algeria, on 28 September...

Libya is less than a month from elections seen as crucial to ending its long-running civil war, but deep political divisions could provoke a delay or even fresh violence.

Based on the 2020 transfers, arms stockpiles remain high and sufficient to sustain any future conflict," the experts said.

President Ebrahim Raisi's comments in a phone call with Emmanuel Macron on Monday evening were his first after the reopening of the talks in Vienna earlier in the day.

Iraq's Shiite Muslim firebrand cleric Moqtada Sadr was Tuesday confirmed the biggest winner of last month's parliamentary election that had sparked charges of voter fraud from pro-Iranian factions. Sadr's movement won 73 out of the assembly's 329 seats, the election commission said.

The UAE has affirmed its commitment to assist in the efforts to ease the suffering of victims of human trafficking, ensure their rights, and end this crime, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals 2030.

A well-known Turkish defense analyst and founder of the opposition Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA), Metin Gurcan, has been jailed on charges of "political and military espionage," local media reported on Tuesday.

French President Emmanuel Macron has called on his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi to return to fulfilling Tehran's obligations under the 2015 nuclear deal "without delay".

Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said in a statement on Monday that his country supports the Kingdom's initiative.

Syria denies the use of chemical weapons and insists it has handed over its weapons stockpiles under a 2013 agreement with the US and Russia.

The government has shown its willingness and seriousness by sending a quality team known to all. If the other side shows the same willingness, we will be on the right track to reach an agreement, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman said.

The seventh General Assembly of Global Public Diplomacy Network will get underway in Katara, chaired by Qatar.

More than 45,000 people have been displaced by the fierce fighting in Marib province in the past two months.

Morocco will halt incoming passenger flights for two weeks starting Monday night amid concern over the spread of a new, heavily mutated Covid-19 variant dubbed Omicron, a government committee said. "The decision has been taken because of the quick spread of the new Covid variant, Omicron, namely in Europe and...

A total of 2,000 plots of land will be distributed to Emirati citizens together with 900 ready-made villas under AED3.8 billion ($1.03 billion) housing projects in Dubai. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, approved the projects that also include an AED 500...

Turkey and Turkmenistan have set themselves the target of scaling up the bilateral trade to $5 billion, as two countries have inched closer to each other in the past few years.

A US Navy arrived also helped the Iranian seamen with food, water, and medical care.

It was only four weeks ago that Israel reopened its borders to foreign tourists after a prolonged closure due to Covid-19.

The Netherlands will provide support to the Lebanese media to ensure access to and delivery of reliable information for voters.

The United States and several European countries have taken similar steps, banning travel from at least seven southern African countries. South African Health Minister Joe Phaahla told reporters that he felt some of the reactions to the new Covid-19 variant that was found in South Africa were ‘unjustified.’

Saudi Arabia will allow direct entry of fully vaccinated expatriates from Indonesia, Pakistan, Brazil, Vietnam, India and Egypt from December 1 without the need to spend 14 days in transit outside their countries before entering the kingdom, reports said. However, they will have to spend a five-day quarantine regardless of...