Tag: Middle East

DUBAI: Saudi Arabia and the UAE on Saturday called for decisive action to protect energy supplies amid a tense US-Iran standoff as two tankers...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s trip to Tehran represents the highest-level effort yet to de-escalate tensions between the U.S. and...

WASHINGTON DC: White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and other administration officials are headed to the Middle East later this month to brief diplomats...

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Sunday said that Pakistan under the leadership of Prime Minister Imran Khan was going...

WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will tour eight Middle East capitals next week in an effort to shore up crucial alliances strained by...

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump spoke on Friday with French President Emmanuel Macron and they discussed trade, Iran and the Middle East, the White...

LONDON: The United Arab Emirates is ready to take on more of the security burden in the Middle East because it can no longer...

  BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Berlin on Tuesday to discuss Syria, the situation in the...

BEIRUT: Lebanese President Michel Aoun said on Monday the US withdrawal from world powers' 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran would have negative consequences for...

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday pledged a package of $20 billion in loans, and about $106 million in financial aid, to Middle...

NEW YORK: Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations (UN) Maleeha Lodhi remarked on Monday that regional tensions and big power politics in the Middle East can trigger a...

ISLAMABAD: Senator Farhatullah Babar said on Wednesday that Pakistanis were most vulnerable to get caught in the web of criminal justice system in the Middle...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Wednesday said that it expected Iran to understand its position on sending its troops to Saudi Arabia purely on a training task...

ISLAMABAD: President Mamnoon Hussain has said that peace and stability in the Middle East are necessary for both regional and international peace. He was talking to...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Tuesday that recent developments in the Middle East could create “an irreversible one-state reality” that would bury the two-state...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Palestine during a brief tour of the Middle East, the foreign ministry said Monday, just weeks after...

NEW YORK: Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United Nations (UN), Dr Maleeha Lodhi, speaking during the Security Council session on the debate on the Middle East, urged...