President Joe Biden spoke with China’s Xi Jinping on Thursday amid growing frustration on the American side that high-level engagement between the two leaders’ top advisers has been largely unfruitful in the early going of the Biden presidency.

The United States on Thursday praised the Taliban as businesslike and cooperative in facilitating the first evacuation of Americans from Afghanistan since the US military withdrawal.

The director-general of the Iranian Trade Promotion Organization’s Office of Arabian and African Countries has said Iran is in talks with Lebanon for an FTA.

The Justice and Development Party which headed the ruling coalition for a decade saw its support collapse from 125 seats in the outgoing assembly to just 12

Austin traveled to the Gulf region earlier this week, a week after the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan ended. He first went to Doha with Secretary of State Antony Blinken to visit the main base for the massive airlift set up by the United States out of Kabul.

King Mohammed VI will name a prime minister from the party that leads the parliamentary poll to govern for the next five years

The latest report comes with diplomatic efforts to revive the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers at a standstill. In February, Iran suspended some IAEA inspections in response to the United States' refusal to lift sanctions on Iran and also limited IAEA access to monitoring equipment such as...

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed reviewed issues of common interest vital to both countries in a phone call.

Blinken, accompanied by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, is the most senior US official to visit the region since the Taliban's lightning takeover of Afghanistan on August 15.

The two sides have not had a mutual FTA for more than 10 years now.

In a sign of further improvement in the strained relations between Saudi Arabia and Qatar, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani, Emir of Qatar, received on Monday Prince Abdulaziz bin Saud bin Nayef, Saudi Arabia’s interior minister, at the Emiri Diwan in Doha

The NRF said spokesman Fahim Dashty -- a well-known Afghan journalist -- and General Abdul Wudod Zara had been killed in the latest fighting. The Taliban completed a stunning two-week offensive across Afghanistan on August 15 by taking the capital, Kabul, without a fight. But remnants of the Afghan army...

UAE’s Ambassador to Brazil, Saleh Ahmed Al Suwaidi, discussed the ties with Brazilian space agency AEB’s President Carlos Moura. He said the UAE has made advanced strides in this field, most notably sending the Hope Probe to Mars and being among the first countries to sign the Artemis Accords, which...

Doha's long-standing hotline to the Taliban has helped Qatar burst onto the world stage with its efforts to assist Kabul reopen its airport.

Foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said President Joe Biden was following the same "dead end" policies as Donald Trump. Khatibzadeh’s remarks came a day after the US Treasury announced financial sanctions against four Iranians accused of planning the kidnapping in the US of an American journalist of Iranian descent.

The country has said it is ‘ready’ to help Lebanon with ‘transit for Egyptian gas and Jordanian electricity via Syrian territory’.

Eitan Na'eh had served for eight months as the temporary head of mission at the Israeli embassy in the United Arab Emirates

Blinken will spend Monday and Tuesday in Qatar, the largest hub for the evacuations of some 100,000 Afghans in the final days

The announcement of a cabinet may take place on Friday following afternoon prayers

The Taliban celebrated the US withdrawal, which was completed on Monday, as a major victory after taking control of Afghanistan last month. A long line of green Humvees idled in single file on a highway outside Kandahar, the spiritual birthplace of the militant movement, many with white-and-black Taliban flags attached...

The phone call between Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince and Turkish President marks the highest-level interaction in years

Senior party official Oussama Khelifi told reporters "official information" was still being awaited

Sidi Bouzid’s suicide sparked an unprecedented uprising that left some 300 people dead and toppled long-time dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali

The meeting, which focused on "security policy, civilian and economic issues", came just hours after Bennett returned from Washington

His visit to Mosul, a melting pot of Iraq's diverse ethnic and religious communities, is seen as an opportunity to renew his support for Christians in the Middle East

Medics said they received seven bodies and treated more than 50 people injured in the attack on Al-Anad air base

Israeli army said fighter jets struck a Hamas military compound used for manufacturing weapons.

Macron warned on Saturday the Islamic State group "remains a threat."

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday accused US President Joe Biden of making the same demands as his predecessor Donald Trump in talks to revive a nuclear deal.

Iraq’s populist Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr on Friday reversed his decision to boycott the October elections and said his movement would take part in order to help “end corruption."

Leaders from around the MENA region are arriving in Baghdad for a summit meant to lower tensions in the region. The meeting is a chance for Iraq to showcase its recent efforts to be a neutral mediator.

Israeli Prime Minister is meeting with the US President at the White House

The US State Department warning is unusually specific, mentions several gates that should be vacated immediately.

Protesters in the Palestinian town near Nablus insist their weeks-long campaign against the wildcat settlement of Eviatar is a grassroots movement

The US president had ordered the assessment to find out whether the virus jumped to humans via animals or escaped a research facility in Wuhan.

Both institutions will work toward supporting economic and social development in member countries.

A spokesman for Prime Minister Naftali Bennett gave no details of the agenda for the CIA chief's talks in Israel

Swedish court officials believe Tuesday's case is the first of its kind against someone accused over the killings.

Two key leaders of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates met in Riyadh on Monday, emphasizing the ties between the neighbors after a public row over oil policy.

The UAE opened an embassy in Israel on Wednesday in Tel Aviv's new stock exchange building as part of the latest normalization move under a deal brokered by Washington last year.

Defense ties between Oman and India deepen as the two countries sign two agreements on military matters The cooperation will enhance maritime security and further boost relations between the navy forces of the two countries Oman and India have pledged to deepen their military ties that will further strengthen bilateral...