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Kerry on a weeklong trip to Middle East and Africa

With focus on Syria and Israel-Palestine conflict US Secretary of State John Kerry would travel to t...

Kerry meets Arab League leaders, discusses Middle East

US Secretary of State John Kerry held meetings with Arab League representatives, in which the leader...

Kerry says Turkey ‘important’ for Palestine-Israel peace process

Top US diplomat John Kerry met Palestinian leaders Sunday on a fresh mission to forge a new path for...

Obama to host Middle East leaders for talks on Syria

The US President Barack Obama will host leaders from its allies Jordan, Turkey, Qatar and UAE, and t...

March deadliest month yet in Syria uprising, 6000 dead

More than 6,000 people were killed in the Syrian civil war in March alone, according to a leading ac...

Christians in Holy Land, Mideast celebrate Easter

Catholics and Protestants flocked to churches to celebrate Easter today in the Holy Land and across ...

Syrian opposition leader Mouaz al-Khatib resigns

Syrian opposition leader resigned on Sunday, saying that the reason for him quitting is the lack of ...

Egypt`s army rejects top prosecutor`s call for citizen arrests

Egypt’s Prosecutor General, whose appointment in November triggered nationwide unrest, has come up w...

Morsi hopes for political compromise to end Egypt

Embattled Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi is planning to reach out to the country`s main opposition...

At least 48 Syrian soldiers killed on way home from Iraq

Unidentified gunmen killed at least 48 Syrian soldiers and government employees who were being taken...

Kerry takes case on Syria to Europe, Mideast

Secretary of State John Kerry embarked on first overseas voyage in diplomatic mission to bring new i...

Kerry to visit Europe and Middle East on first foreign trip

US Secretary of State John Kerry will visit nine nations in Europe and the Middle East as he underta...

`Middle East has lost 144 cubic km of water`

The Middle East has lost 144 cubic km of water between 2003 and 2010, nearly equal to the staggering...

US to prioritise engagement with emerging Asian powers: Biden

US is revitalising and rebalancing its alliances to ensure prioritising engagements with allies, par...

US remains committed to two-State solution in Mid East

The US remains committed to the two-State solution in the Israel-Palestine conflict, the Obama Admin...

`Arabs groping for new forms of governance`

Arabs are groping for new models of governance in the wake of uprisings that began in 2010 that led ...

US has made a strategic bet on India: US official

A top US diplomat has said the Obama Administration`s strategic rebalancing to Asia was expected to ...

Obama dispatches Clinton to Middle East

US President Barack Obama dispatched his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the Middle East to pr...

Iran developing nuke weapons ‘could trigger arms race` in Middle East: Cameron

British PM David Cameron has warned that Iran’s development of nuclear weapons could ‘trigger a nucl...

PA seeks UNGA vote in November on status upgrade

The Palestinian Authority is set to ask the UN General Assembly for a vote this month on its bid for...

‘Syria conflict part of Mideast geopolitical game’

Russia has said some countries are apparently interested in fuelling violence in Syria as part of a ...

Flight operations disrupted in Dubai by airport malfunction

Flight operations at the Middle East`s busiest airport here were disrupted Wednesday after backup sy...

Obama camp blasts Romney’s ‘clumsy’ foreign policy speech

Obama’s camp blasted Romney’s foreign policy speech, saying it was full of ‘heated rhetoric’ but wit...

Mitt Romney finds faults with Obama`s Middle East policy

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Monday called for a “change of course in the Middle...

World powers to urge Syria`s opposition to unite

Western nations and allies in the Middle East will urge Syria`s fractured opposition to unite, seeki...

Putin slams West over Syria

Russian President Vladimir Putin criticised Western countries again over their conduct in connection...

Do not ignore Israel-Palestine conflict: India

Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai addressed a high-level meeting on the Situation in the Middle East a...

Do not ignore the Israel-Palestine conflict: India to world

India urged the Security Council as well as the Arab League to "urgently facilitate the resumption o...

New SARS-like virus detected in Middle East

Global health officials are closely monitoring a new respiratory virus related to SARS that is belie...

`Challenges in road to historic transformation in Middle East`

The historic transition currently being experienced in some Middle East and N African countries is u...

Path to democracy in Mid-East is rocky: Obama

Obama hoped that in long-term democracy would bring peace to the region.

`Freedom gained during Arab Spring uprising under threat`

Democratic governance declined throughout the world in 2011, showing that gains made in the Middle E...

Al Qaeda calls for more attacks on US embassies

Al Qaeda`s most active branch in the Middle East has called for more attacks on US embassies to "set...

UN chief asks for help to end Syrian conflict

UN Sec-Gen Ban Ki-moon has called on outside parties, especially countries in the Middle East, "to d...

Iran could strike US bases if Israel attacks N-facility: Hezbollah

Militant group Hezbollah has warned that Iran could strike American bases in the Middle East if the ...

Decline of Christianity in Middle-East a `catastrophe`: Teule

Theologian Dr Horman Teule attributed the decline of Christianity to demographic evolution, dictator...

SCO members opposed to forced "regime change" in Middle East

The declaration came hours before Annan is scheduled to present his latest assessment of the Syrian ...

‘We don`t seek to export democracy in Mideast’

As a country where the Arab Spring began, Tunisia is not keen to "export" it to the region but canno...

Obama calls Abbas to discuss Middle East peace

US President Barack Obama spoke to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for the first time in six mon...

USD 25 mn for Internet freedom in the Middle East

US this year anticipated USD 25 million towards internet freedom programming efforts in the Middle E...

`Strong India-Middle East ties will benefit both`

Underlining the need for increased cooperation between India and Middle East, Deputy Chairman of Ra...

Protesters attack 5 Syrian embassies

Demonstrators have stormed five Syrian embassies in Europe and the Middle East after Syrian forces....

Kerala Tourism on marketing blitz in Australia, ME

Kerala is on a marketing blitz to attract more travellers from the Middle East and Down Under.

Middle East`s first gurudwara opens in Dubai

There are an estimated 50,000 Sikhs in the UAE, hailing from both India and Pakistan.

‘Intervention in Iran would trigger war and chaos’

French Prez warned that any foreign military intervention against Iran`s nuclear programme would tr...

`Iran nuclear crisis may destabilise Middle East`

British foreign secretary called on the Iranian government to negotiate a peaceful resolution of the...

Mideast govts fail to see scale of change: Amnesty

Reform movements showed no sign of flagging despite bloodshed on the streets and arrests last year, ...

Israel must address its growing isolation: Panetta

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta called on Israel to take diplomatic steps to address what he describe...

Iran boycott mars rare Middle East nuclear talks

Israel and its Arab neighbours sat in the same room for rare discussions on banning nuclear weapons ...

Iran to boycott Middle East nuclear talks

The 35-nation governing board of the IAEA has adopted a resolution rebuking Iran over its nuclear pr...

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