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Russia yesterday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution aimed at extending cross-border aid delivery to Syria from Turkiye through the Bab Al-Hawa border crossing. The move blocks millions of...

Russia, on Tuesday, vetoed at the UN Security Council, a nine-month renewal of an aid operation delivering assistance to some 4 million people in rebel-held north-west Syria from Turkiye...

A top Ukrainian official has accused Syria of granting citizenship to a number of Russian athletes in order to circumvent international sanctions placed on Moscow and compete in global tournaments. He published the identities of Russians whom he says are currently representing Syria at the Pan Arab Games in Algeria under different names.

A new bill introduced by the UK government, which is designed to shield Israel from boycotts, will have damaging consequences for the UK if the legislation went ahead in...

The UN Security Council yesterday postponed a vote to renew a cross-border mechanism that allows the use of the Bab Al-Hawa border crossing through Turkiye to deliver humanitarian aid...

The 20th century had no more prolific writer on the dangers of authoritarianism than Eric Arthur Blair, better known by his pen name, George Orwell. Orwell's writings continue to...

The Russian Foreign Minister, on Monday, said Moscow and countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) possess all the mechanisms to promote their mutually beneficial partnership, Anadolu Agency reports....

Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has returned home from a visit to Turkiye, with five commanders of Ukraine's former garrison in Mariupol, a move Russia said violated the terms of...

Ukrainian club Dynamo Kyiv blasted Turkiye's Fenerbahce FC for playing in Russia, accusing them of accepting 'bloody handouts from the sponsors of terrorism'. As mediator in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Turkiye has a balancing act in its relationships with the warring countries.

Focusing on Russia again, just like in the first Cold War, NATO has returned to its default settings. As of 2021, it has turned toward expanding its sphere of...

An increasing number of countries are repatriating gold reserves as protection against the sort of sanctions imposed by the West on Russia, according to an Invesco survey of Central...

Presidents Bashar Al-Assad of Syria and Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkiye may hold a meeting in the presence of their Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, after the work on a...

The recent decision by Saudi Arabia and Russia to extend existing crude oil supply cuts did not have the expected effect on prices, but analysts said the limited increase...

In March, the South African Communist Party (SACP) denounced what it described as the "imperialist bias" of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The denunciation of the ICC as a...

The UN Aid chief said on Friday that Turkiye plays a "very active" role in the Black Sea grain deal as the deadline is nearing to extend the agreement...

As Wagner mercenaries advanced on Moscow in an attempted mutiny in late June, authorities in Syria and Russian military commanders there took a series of swift measures against local...

Turkish, Ukrainian Presidents meet in Istanbul for talks

The Russian authorities in the city of Ulyanovsk have detained an Egyptian citizen who appeared in a video desecrating the Quran. According to Russian media outlets, the man, identified...

The conversation about climate change needs to shift from simply reducing carbon emissions to ensuring developing nations can take part in a diversified green economy in the Middle East...

The US State Department has declassified footage from a US operation in Syria, which it alleges shows Russian jets 'harassing' an unmanned American bomber aircraft. The US' Reaper drone was part of an operation with Kurdish forces against Daesh targets in Syria

An Israeli-Russian academic, who went missing in Iraq a few months ago, is alive and being held there by Shia group, Kataib Hezbollah, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office...

Tensions which had long been brewing reached a climax on 24 June when the leader of the infamous Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, announced a march on Moscow against...

Israel has recently signed the largest arms deal in its history with Germany, worth a staggering €4 billion. The occupation state will provide Germany, which is concerned about getting...

Russia, on Tuesday, restated a demand for its state agricultural bank to be reconnected to the global SWIFT payments system and said it would not accept a reported compromise...

Russia sees no grounds for extending last year's Black Sea Grain Initiative deal, which is set to expire in less than two weeks, the Kremlin said Tuesday, Anadolu Agency...

Iran, on Tuesday, gained full membership of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) at the end of the 23rd summit of the SCO Council of Heads of States, Anadolu Agency...

Saudi Arabia and Russia, the world's biggest oil exporters, yesterday deepened oil cuts, sending prices higher despite concerns over a global economic slowdown and possible further interest rate increases...

Russia will cut oil exports by 500,000 barrels per day (bpd) in August, President Vladimir Putin's point man on oil said on Monday, as Moscow seeks to nudge up global oil prices...

The Kremlin, on Monday, said it is not much hopeful that its demands regarding Russian exports as part of the Black Sea grain deal, set to expire later this...

The president of the Palestinian Authority (PA) Mahmoud Abbas expressed his support to Russia's President Vladimir Putin, a week after the failed and aborted coup attempt by the mercenary...

Former Israeli National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat considers the normalisation of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia "an important goal, but not at any price," pointing out: "Israeli practises...

Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, said on Friday that Russia will seek the expansion of the UN Security Council with Asian, African and Latin American countries. Speaking at a news...