Turkey: Ankara rejects U.S. threats for American Pastor’s release

President Tayyip Erdogan’s office and the foreign minister Thursday indicated that the United States will not attain the release of US pastor Andrew Craig Brunson with threats. The reaction came after President Donald Trump and Vice-President Mike Pence threatened to Read more

We want Palestine to have Eastern Jerusalem as its capital al–Sisi tells US top diplomat

Egyptian president Abdel Fatah al-Sisi on Monday told United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that his country’s stance towards the Israeli-Palestine peace process is to ‘establish a Palestinian state on the 1967 border, with Eastern Jerusalem as its capital’. Read more

Jerusalem: Trump doubles down to cut aid if Palestinians refuse to talk peace

President Donald Trump Thursday in Davos, Switzerland, reiterated his decision to cut aid to Palestinians if they refuse to embrace his peace plan, noting that Palestinians’ refusal to receive his Vice President was ‘disrespectful’. Speaking to the media, alongside Israeli Read more

Iran, U.S. Exchange Warnings

Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Consular, Parliamentary and Expatriates Affairs Hassan Qashqavi has stated that President Donald Trump’s anti-immigration policies towards the seven Muslim-majority nations are “unjustified decisions.” He stressed that Tehran will take “retaliatory actions” if Washington prevents Iranians Read more