Iran's deputy foreign minister said a decision by a Saudi-led bloc of Gulf states to label the Lebanese group Hezbollah a terrorist organization was a "mistake." Iranian state TV Thursday quoted Hossein Amir Abdollahian as saying the Gulf Cooperation Council's move was a "new mistake"...

Egypt's parliament voted on Wednesday to expel an independent lawmaker who invited the Israeli ambassador in Cairo for dinner, drawing widespread criticism and prompting a fellow deputy to attack him with his shoe. Speaker Ali Abdelaal announced that 465 lawmakers, out of 490 who...

Palestinian group Hamas has rejected a French initiative aimed at resuming peace talks between the Palestinians and Israel. In January, then-French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius unveiled plans to hold an international conference aimed at ending the perennial Israeli-Palestinian conflict with...

The Arab Gulf countries have agreed to blacklist Hezbollah as a terrorist group, but they are still studying ways to do that, undersecretary of Bahrain’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Hamad al-Amir told Al Arabiya on Wednesday. Gulf Cooperation Countries, which include Saudi Arabia, Kuwait,...