U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu said they discussed on Sunday a standoff over disputed territory in the eastern Mediterranean, where Ankara is at loggerheads with Athens and the European Union. After the meeting in Santo Domingo, Pompeo said on...

French President Emmanuel Macron urged fresh Middle East peace talks after Israel and the UAE agreed to normalize ties in a move praised by many Western governments, including Paris, but unanimously denounced by the Palestinians. Taking to Twitter after a phone conversation with Mahmoud...

The agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates to normalise ties would kill the two-state solution, strengthen "extremists" and undermine the "possibility of peace", chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said Sunday. The fractured Palestinian leadership -- from the Palestinian...

After two years under house arrest, Palestinian resistance icon Raed Salah began a 17-month jail term on incitement charges. The sentence was scheduled to start in March, but was postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak. Salah, the leader of the northern branch of Islamic Movement in...

 The United Arab Emirates has summoned Iran's charge d'affaires in Abu Dhabi in response to a speech by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani that the foreign ministry described as "unacceptable", state news agency WAM said Sunday. Rouhani said in a speech on Saturday the UAE had made a...

A day after the UN Security Council rejected a US draft resolution to extend an arms embargo on Iran, Tehran said Sunday it will export weapons once the ban is lifted. “Iran will export and sell weapons” once the UN-mandated embargo is lifted, Defense Minister Gen. Amir Hatami told...

Lebanon’s top Christian cleric called on Sunday for early parliamentary elections and a government formed to rescue the country rather than the ruling “political class” after the vast explosion in Beirut’s port threw the nation into turmoil. The now-caretaker cabinet resigned amid protests...

 Bahrain and Oman could be the next Gulf countries to follow the United Arab Emirates in formalising ties with Israel, Israel’s intelligence minister said on Sunday. “In the wake of this agreement (with the UAE) will come additional agreements, both with more Gulf countries and with...

Turkey Sunday condemned remarks made by US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden criticizing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and calling for support for the Turkish leader's opponents. Biden made the comments in an interview filmed by the New York Times in December but a video of the...

Kuwait's position towards Israel is unchanged after its accord with the United Arab Emirates and it will be the last country to normalize relations, newspaper al-Qabas reported Sunday citing Kuwaiti government sources. Israel and the UAE announced an agreement on Thursday that will lead to...

Telephone service between the United Arab Emirates and Israel has begun as the two countries open diplomatic ties. Associated Press journalists in Jerusalem and Dubai were able to call each other from both landline and cellular phones Sunday. Officials in Israel and the UAE did not...

US President Donald Trump vowed Saturday to use a controversial technique to unilaterally reinstate UN sanctions on Tehran, a move with huge repercussions for the Iran nuclear deal. His declaration came a day after the UN Security Council overwhelmingly rejected a US resolution to extend an...

Israel's army launched new air strikes Sunday against Hamas positions in Gaza and closed the fishing zone around the Palestinian enclave in response to rockets and firebombs sent into Israeli territory. The measures came after a week of heightened tensions, including clashes on Saturday...

The deputy leader of the separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC) in Yemen, Hani bin Breik, said he intends to visit Israel after the signing of a deal with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to normalize their relations. "If visits are open to the southerners [in Yemen] to Tel Aviv,...

The shock announcement that the UAE and Israel are normalizing relations has been applauded by allies and booed by rivals, but for many Gulf citizens there is deep unease over the embrace of a longtime enemy. Palestinian leaders have cast the deal as a "betrayal", a view shared by many...

The Arab League and Saudi Arabia remained silent Friday on a deal between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel to normalize relations.    Among the Gulf countries, Saudi Arabia’s close ally, Bahrain, became the first to congratulate the UAE on the deal. Oman also...

Fresh Israeli air and tank strikes hit Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip late Friday, Israel's army said, in further reprisals for firebombs suspended from balloons that floated over the border from Gaza. "Fighter jets, military helicopters and tanks targeted Hamas positions in the Gaza...

Hezbollah's leader said Friday the group was not concerned with the verdict of a U.N.-backed tribunal over the 2005 assassination of ex-PM Rafik Hariri due on August 18. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said if any members of the four members of the group are indicted, Hezbollah would stand by their...

 Lebanon's Prosecutor General Ghassan Oueidat has pressed charges against 25 people, including senior port and customs officials and security officers, over the massive Beirut port blast that killed 172 people, a judicial source told Reuters on Friday. It was not immediately clear what...

Claudette Halabi cried out from beneath the rubble of her house for an hour before she died. The neighbors couldn't save her. "We kept hearing the screams. I heard her voice. But we couldn't do anything. It still hurts," said Johnny Khawand, near the remains of her Beirut building. The...