Israel and Lebanon will resume negotiations next week over the two neighboring nation’s mutual – and disputed – maritime border, Reuters reported on Thursday. The talks, begun late last year and brokered by the United States, stalled several months ago and have yet to continue under the Biden administration. The …

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Wednesday visited Oman, where he met with Mohammed Abdul Salam, spokesman for the Houthi movement battling a Saudi-led coalition over control of Yemen. “The only solution for Yemen is the political one,” Zarif said, according to Tehran’s Foreign Ministry, stressing Iran’s “support for …

Gamliel noted that the Environmental Protection Ministry has been moving towards reducing its use of fossil fuels to “reduce air pollution and the resulting morbidity and mortality.” Environmental Protection Minister Gila Gamliel spoke out Wednesday against a deal Israel made to increase oil transport from Eilat to Ashkelon. This binding …

The recording, shedding a rare light on ties between the government and the elite Guards, has angered hardliners in Iran, who called the leak “an espionage act.” Iran imposed travel bans on 15 people for alleged involvement in a leaked audio recording in which the foreign minister complains about the …

‘Additional focus of Iran’s intelligence is the observation of and fight against opposition groups domestically and abroad.’ The German intelligence agency for the state of Bavaria said last week in its new report that the Islamic Republic of Iran has not ceased its drive to obtain weapons of mass destruction …

Reiterating Israel’s position that it does not consider itself bound by the diplomacy, Intelligence Minister Eli Cohen said: “A bad deal will send the region spiraling into war.” An Israeli cabinet minister sharpened his country’s warnings against what it would deem a bad new nuclear deal between Iran and world …

Afghan security forces broke up an alleged Chinese espionage ring in December that was operating in Kabul and trying to infiltrate terrorist networks in the country. The Afghan government said little about the issue besides acknowledging the arrests. Beijing publicly denied knowledge of the group’s activities.

The Russian envoy has been summoned to the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry after the authorities launched an investigation into six citizens of Russia suspected of involvement in a series of blasts at four weapons and armament facilities in Bulgaria between 2011 and 2020. “From the evidence gathered so far, it can …

A political deal is giving new hope to thousands of people who remain officially invisible because – even though some were born in the country – they cannot get citizenship documents. They were born or have lived in the country for years but have never managed to regulate their legal …

Kosovo’s involuntary involvement via the Washington Agreement in the thorny issue of Jerusalem’s status threatens to permanently damage its relations with the Arab and Muslim world. The proximity of the Western Balkans to the European Union bestows it with particular geopolitical significance and in recent years, an increasing number of …