Author: Steven Sahiounie

Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Fayssal Mikdad, discussed with his Iraqi counterpart, Fouad Hussein, bilateral relations, the situation in the Arab region in general and Gaza in particular. Eelier, Mikdad discussed with Secretary-General the Arab League, Ahmed Abu al-Gheit, the conditions and developments on the Arab and regional arenas. The meetings come on the sidelines of the 161st session of the Arab League’s Council on the Ministerial level. During the two meetings, Mikdad called for activating the Arab joint action and supporting the Arab central issues, on top, the Palestinian cause, ending the Israeli occupation of the Syrian Golan and halting the…

The foreign ministers of Egypt and Somalia met on Tuesday to discuss ways to enhance relations between the two countries and joint efforts to tackle regional and international challenges. Sameh Shoukry welcomed Ali Mohamed Omar in Cairo during the Somali minister’s visit to Egypt. The pair expressed their keenness to maintain close contact on regional and international issues of common interest, Ahmed Abu Zeid, spokesman for the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, said. Shoukry reiterated Egypt’s backing for Somalia’s efforts to enhance peace and security in the Horn of Africa region, which he said “represents a basic pillar of regional and continental…

Syria has condemned attempts to target The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in service of the Israeli occupation’s agenda aiming at liquidating the right to return and the Palestinian issue, calling on donor countries that suspended their funding to UNRAW to resume donations. “The Israeli brutal aggression and the genocide war still continue against the Palestinians and the 5-month huge humanitarian suffering in Gaza is now escalated by the occupation’s attempts to liquidate the UNRWA,” Qusay al-Dahhak, Syria’s permanent Ambassador to the UN in New York said at General Assembly meeting. He added that Syria calls on…

The Israeli hostilities prove the regime is “deliberately” pursuing the policy of destroying Palestine, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian stated. The Iranian minister was addressing an emergency meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)’s foreign ministers in the Saudi city of Jeddah on Tuesday. The meeting, requested by Iran and some other Islamic countries, was held to review the latest developments in Gaza and to discuss effective measures to halt the Israeli campaign of death and destruction in the besieged Palestinian territory. “In a situation where we are once again witnessing the inability of the UN Security Council to deal with the oldest…

Syria condemned in the strongest terms the United States’ repeated use of veto to paralyze the Security Council and prevent it from assuming its responsibilities, stressing its rejection of the pretexts it uses to defend the Israeli occupation and its crimes against the Palestinian people in blatant disregard for the will of the peoples and countries of the world. “The General Assembly meets today to express its stance regarding the United States’ use of veto against a draft resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza Strip, with the aim of protecting “Israel”, providing it with immunity, and enabling it to…

Prime Minister of the Caretaker Government Mohammed Shtayyeh met today at his in Ramallah with the Chairman of the Human Rights Committee in the European Parliament (DROI), Udo Bullmann. The meeting was also attended by the European Union Representative in Palestine, Alexandre Stutzmann. Shtayyeh briefed Bullmann on the latest developments in the occupation’s aggression and genocide crimes which are being waged against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including Jerusalem. During the meeting, Shtayyeh said the Palestinian people have been suffering for more than 75 years, facing murder, detentions, colonial expansion, land seizure and attacks…

Moscow and Yerevan will live ‘in peace and harmony,’ the history of Russian-Armenian relations forms the foundation for the development of bilateral cooperation, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told TASS on Tuesday. Zakharova’s statement for TASS comes on the sidelines of the World Youth Festival in response to numerous questions from Armenian teenage participants about what could be done to improve relations during the present-day turbulent times. “It’s not about me lecturing Armenia’s young participants [of the festival], but it’s about them approaching me speaking about the possible development of bilateral relations, they ask to take pictures and they…

Israel will allow a similar number of worshippers into Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the first week of Ramadan as in previous years, a statement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Tuesday.The decision was agreed with top Israeli security officials during a meeting on preparations ahead of the Muslim fasting month, without providing a specific number.“During the first week of Ramadan a similar number of worshippers will be allowed on the Temple Mount as in previous years,” the statement said, using the Jewish name for the site.“Every week a security assessment will be conducted and a decision will…

President Mahmoud Abbas met today with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, at the presidential palace in Ankara as part of an official visit to Turkey, during which they discussed the latest developments in the Palestinian arena. During the meeting, President Abbas reviewed the latest developments in the Palestinian arena, the ongoing contacts with all parties to immediately stop the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people, and the introduction of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, especially to the north which is suffering from a real and unprecedented famine. He reiterated his rejection of the displacement of the Palestinian people, whether in…

Turkish authorities have arrested seven individuals, including a former public servant working as a private detective, over suspicions of providing information to the Israeli Mossad intelligence service. The detained detective is believed to have gathered intelligence on Middle Eastern entities in Turkey, employing tactics, such as placing tracking devices and conducting surveillance, according to the MIT intelligence agency. A video released by the Interior Ministry depicted police conducting raids on residences in Istanbul, confiscating firearms, bags of narcotics, and electronic devices. “We will never allow espionage activities to be carried out within the borders of our country. We will catch them…