More than 10,000 ISIS extremists are estimated to remain active in Iraq and Syria two years after the extremist group’s defeat, and their attacks have significantly increased this year, the... Read more

Amnesty International on Wednesday urged the release of protesters abducted when armed men allied with Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA) fired live ammunition, “including from heav... Read more

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held closed-door meetings Wednesday with Bahrain’s royal family and planned others with top officials in the United Arab Emirates amid the Trump administrat... Read more

Fayez al-Sarraj, head of the Presidency Council of the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA), failed to contain the growing popular discontent and to absorb the anger of the demonstrato... Read more

Phil Reeker, the top U.S. State Department official for Europe, has criticised Turkey’s policy in the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean, while voicing concerns that Ankara’s activities ar... Read more

Turkey’s lira briefly hit a record low on Wednesday as concerns among investors over the economy and political and military tensions with neighbouring Greece weighed on sentiment. The lira w... Read more

Greece, Cyprus, France and Italy launched joint military drills south of Cyprus on Wednesday, as rising tensions over disputed hydrocarbon exploration rights in the eastern Mediterranean als... Read more

Bahrain said Wednesday it was committed to the creation of a Palestinian state in talks with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, implicitly rejecting his push for Arab countries to swiftly no... Read more

Greece and EU allies staged war games on Wednesday in the Mediterranean where Turkey’s leader vowed to make “no concessions” in an escalating row over gas exploration. The... Read more

On a day when the poetic words of love from a daughter to her murdered father brought many people to tears in a New Zealand courtroom, the white supremacist who killed him and 50 other worsh... Read more

Hossam al-Haddad   The Turkish opposition has exposed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s lies about gas discoveries, which the Turkish president resorts to with the approach of any electi... Read more

The president of the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday rejected the Trump administration’s demand to restore all U.N. sanctions on Iran, a move that drew an angry rebuke from the U.S. ambassa... Read more

Greece is calling on the European Commission to present “different options” on how Turkey can be sanctioned for violating Greek and Cypriot sovereign rights in the Eastern Mediterranean beyo... Read more

Athens will not engage in “any discussions” with Ankara as long as Turkey continues to maintain “military pressure” in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean, Greek Minister of State Giorgos G... Read more

Nora Bandari   The separate announcements by Fayez al-Sarraj’s Government of National Accord (GNA) and Libyan Parliament Speaker Aguila Saleh on Friday, August 21 regarding an immediate... Read more