Tag: Middle East

Turkish FM Ahmet Davutoglu said Cold War ended in Balkans in 1990s and now it was ending in Middle East. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has said that the Cold War ended in Balkans ...

In 1947, during a meeting at the United Nations (UN) to discuss creating a plan to partition Palestine between Jews and Arabs, Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsku declared to the entire ...

The world is rushing towards the new year, with rapid steps. Neither the issues encountered in diplomatic relations, dichotomies nor the contradictions can slow down the desire to move into ...

Politics is everywhere, here in Cairo, Egypt. People are discussing politics while they are walking in the streets, smoking Shisha and drinking Turkish coffee in the local coffee shops. It ...

With its caustic rhetoric on Israel and its gold-for-gas trade with Iran, Turkey is not the deferential U.S. ally it once was as it carves out a growing role in the fast-changing politics of the ...

Main opposition bloc calls for citizens to vote against draft constitution, rather than boycotting poll. Egypt's opposition has called for citizens to vote "no" in a referendum due this week ...

More than half a million people have now fled the conflict in Syria to neighbouring countries, according to the UN's refugee agency. The UNHCR says it has accounted for 509,559 refugees ...

Despite concrete barricades and a heavy military presence in the Egyptian capital Cairo, opposition leaders say they will keep up the pressure on the president to cancel Saturday's constitutional referendum. ...

Hamas leader-in-exile Khaled Mashaal made his first visit to Gaza, kissing the ground and saying he hoped he would one day die a “martyr” in the Palestinian territory. After his ...

The United States warned Syria in no uncertain terms Monday not to use chemical weapons amid intelligence reports indicating President Bashar al-Assad's regime could be preparing to take that step as ...