
PALESTINE
‘Arab nations to block Quartet report’
The Palestinian envoy to the UN says Arab nations seek to block a report by the Quartet on the Middle East.

The Palestinian envoy to the UN says Arab nations seek to block a report by the Quartet on the Middle East.

A senior Iranian official says the Islamic Republic’s missile capabilities serve the country’s national interests and will not be done away with.

The EU has criticized Israel for approving a controversial law enabling the regime to force Israeli NGOs to declare their foreign funding.

The US will meet its target of settling 10,000 Syrian refugees in the country this fiscal year, Secretary of State John Kerry says.

A report reveals an April meeting in the United States between Nader Bakkar, a senior Salafist from Egypt, and former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.

Thousands of South Koreans have protested against a planned deployment of US-built THAAD missile system in Seongju which is home to 40,000 people.

Indian premier has held an emergency meeting over escalating violence in Kashmir protests.

A car bomb attack kills at least seven people and injures 11 others at an area to the north of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim says his country aims to develop good relations with Syria and Iraq.

Israeli military forces shoot dead a young Palestinian man and injure another near the occupied al-Quds (Jerusalem).

People in London have taken to the streets again to protest US police brutality against African Americans.

Amnesty International says it has seen an "unprecedented spike" in enforced disappearances in Egypt since early 2015, with the government seeking to quash dissent.

Syria’s UN ambassador calls on the international community to stop Israel’s occupation of the occupied Golan Heights.

A Taiwanese warship sets sail for the South China Sea “to defend Taiwan's maritime territory”.

US Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has criticized the Black Lives Matter movement as divisive.

Russia verifies Iran’s commitment to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), a nuclear agreement signed between Iran and six world powers last year.

In Mali, anti-government protest has turned deadly as security forces opened fire on demonstrators, leaving at least three people dead.

Senior House Democrats are refusing to back a Republican push to pass multiple sanctions bills against Iran.