German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas told Mehr News correspondent that his country has provided Iraq with over 1.5 billion euro worth of financial aid to help with its reconstruction process. German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas travelled to Baghdad on 17 December to hold talks with President Barham Salih, Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi and Foreign Minister Ali Al-Hakim, with […]

 The foreign ministers of Russia, Iran and Turkey said on Tuesday that a new Syrian Constitutional Committee should convene early next year, kicking off a viable political peace process. In a joint statement read out by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov after the trio met UN Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura in Geneva, they said […]

The scope of British interaction with the Southeast Asian region extends from security-military to economic-educational, and as predicted, this gets more intense post-Brexit, with the Five Power Defense Arrangements (FPDA) treaty, Asia’s only collective security arrangement. British presence in the southeastern Asia security treaty, the adherence to the deployment and maintenance of some British military […]

The U.S. Senate voted on Thursday to end American military assistance for Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen. This was reported by the media as the strongest show of bipartisan defiance against Trump’s support for the Saudi family over the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi journalist who was against bin Salman policies. Accordingly, the New […]

Prof. Nasir uddin is a cultural anthropologist based in Bangladesh, and professor of anthropology at Chittagong University. He has been working with Rohingya people in the borderland of Bangladesh and Myanmar for more than two decades and has written on the Rohingya refugee situation extensively in the form of both academic and popular pieces. His […]

On Wednesday, December 12, Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh hosted the first Arab-African conference of foreign ministers of six countries bordering the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, a strategic area vital to global shipping. Representatives from Egypt, Djibouti, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, and Jordan gathered in Riyadh to discuss the initiative. The Red Sea is a […]

 17 civilians were martyred in a new massacre committed by the US-led international coalition on Hajin town in Deir Ezzor countryside under the pretext of fighting ISIL terrorist organization. Civil sources told SANA that warplanes of the US-led international coalition shelled on Sunday the locals’ houses in al-Bou Khatir village to the southeast of Hajin […]

Negotiators at an international UN climate change conference in the southern Polish city of Katowice have adopted a final declaration after two weeks of debate. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki wrote on Twitter: “We have managed to reach an agreement during the COP24 Climate Conference. The ‘Katowice Package’ was… adopted by all UN member states.” […]

 The European Union is working on organizing a conference that could help solve the crisis among member states of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC), Romanian foreign minister Teodor-Viorel Meleşcanu said on Saturday. Addressing the annual Doha Forum, Meleşcanu said Romania will take rotating presidency of the Council of the EU from January for the […]

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India suffered a major setback last week after losing three key states to the main opposition party Indian National Congress (INC). The results, which come barely four months before the general elections in India, have handed an opportunity for Congress to bounce back and recoup the political space […]