Middle East
Israel considers recognition of Morocco’s rule over Western Sahara
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s national security adviser visited Rabat on Wednesday as his government mulls a possible announcement of ...Qatar prime minister, Taliban chief hold secret Afghan talks
The Qatari prime minister held secret talks with the supreme leader of the Taliban this month on resolving tension with ...Turkey’s Erdogan prevails in election test of his 20-year rule
President Tayyip Erdogan extended his two decades in power in elections on Sunday, winning a mandate to pursue increasingly authoritarian policies which ...Iran says it has successfully launched ballistic missile
Iran successfully tested a 2,000 km-range ballistic missile on Thursday, Iranian state media said, two days after the chief of ...Saudi embrace of Assad sends strong signal to US
Once labelled a pariah, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman took centre stage as master of ceremonies last week when ...Indonesia, Iran sign preferential trade agreement
The leaders of Indonesia and Iran on Tuesday signed a preferential trade agreement to expand economic relations during an official ...Three Palestinian militants killed in Israeli raid in West Bank
Israeli security forces killed three Palestinian militants during a large-scale raid in the occupied West Bank on Monday, Palestinian and ...G7 offers Ukraine long-term support, Zelenskiy laments Bakhmut ‘tragedy’
Leaders of the world’s richest democracies said on Sunday they would not back down from supporting Ukraine, in a warning ...Zelenskiy joins Japan G7 as democracies take aim at Russia and China
Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy brought his call for support against Russia’s invasion to a Group of Seven (G7) summit on Saturday ...Syria’s Assad wins warm welcome at Arab summit after years of isolation
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was given a warm welcome at an Arab summit on Friday, winning a hug from Saudi Arabia’s crown ...