The decision came after Hamas said it had responded positively to an American-backed cease-fire proposal. President Trump says he hopes for a truce as soon as next week.

A top UAE diplomat has stressed the need for a political horizon that lays the foundation for a just and lasting peace in the Middle East which he described as a region that "remains in crisis". The ...

Thomas J. Barrack Jr., the U.S. ambassador to Turkey, says Washington is facilitating the discussions and prioritizing ...

India’s pivot from Nehru’s moral stand to Modi’s Zionist embrace reveals a story of betrayal, diplomacy, and decline. Can justice survive realpolitik?

The vibe essentially was 'it can't get any worse - we may as well give Trump a shot'.Mingling among diplomats from Middle ...

1979: Iran ’s pro-western leader, Mohammed Reza Shah, who regarded Israel as an ally, is swept from power in an Islamic ...

Indian native Imtiaz Muqbil is one of the longest-serving travel and trade journalists in the Asia Pacific. Started career in ...

American, while a sizeable portion of the organised Jewish leadership has denounced the roadmap as requiring far too many Israeli concessions. But, the establishment press keeps reminding us that ...

It is apparent to Tehran that Netanyahu is determined to go for the jugular and destroy its nuclear programme completely. In ...

The president said he hasn’t reached out to Iran for peace talks, describing reports as “highly fabricated, fake news.” “If they want to talk, they know how to reach me,” Trump wrote in a post on his ...

A year before the assassination, Arafat, Peres and Rabin were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. After the assassination Hamas intensified its suicide bomb campaign. Within a few days in February ...