The path to improved British-Iranian relations has hit a new barrier after the high court in London ruled that the UK does not have to pay at least £20m interest on the £387m it owes to Iran... Read more

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday he has decided to stop implementing agreements with Israel amid worsening relations between the two sides. Abbas issued a statement followin... Read more

Beji Caid Essebsi, Tunisia’s first democratically elected president, died on Thursday at the age of 92 after being admitted into intensive care, his office announced. Born in 1926, Essebsi w... Read more

Mahmud Mohamadi Tunisian president Beji Caid Essebsi, one of the oldest leaders at the international stage, died Thursday, after a long political career and struggle for the independence of... Read more

Sudan’s army chief was among several people arrested in a coup plot, the country’s military said Wednesday, shortly after reports emerged of at least a dozen high-ranking army officers and I... Read more

As Boris Johnson walked up to the podium at 10 Downing Street to make his first address as prime minister, they should have played Leonard Cohen’s Everybody Knows as his fanfare: “Everybody... Read more

Donald Trump has vetoed a trio of congressional resolutions aimed at blocking his administration from selling billions of dollars of weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The... Read more

The former US special counsel Robert Mueller methodically demolished Donald Trump’s central claims about his Russia investigation – insisting the results did not exonerate Trump – but he did... Read more

Sudan’s military said on Wednesday that it has thwarted a coup attempt and arrested an unspecified number of senior officers in connection with the plot, state news agency SUNA said. The mil... Read more

Libyan National Army (LNA) commander Khalifa Haftar said on Wednesday that his forces were close to “raising the banner of victory” over Tripoli, where clashes have been ongoing for nearly f... Read more

Libya’s coast guard said on Wednesday it intercepted around three dozen Europe-bound migrants off its Mediterranean coast and took them to a detention center that was bombed earlier this mon... Read more

Boris Johnson has signalled his ruthless determination to deliver Brexit and stoked speculation about an early general election by sacking more than half of Theresa May’s cabinet and packing... Read more

Islam Mohamed Tensions are rising between Iran and its European partners, against the background of the seizure of the Iranian oil tanker Grace I in Gibraltar on July 4 and the seizure by Ir... Read more