Visits by foreign delegations to Syria recently could indicate that the West is willing to break, even on a low profile, the isolation against the country since the war there broke out nearly four years ago, according to local political analysts.
U.S. President Barack Obama's criticism of the upcoming counterterrorism law of China is utterly groundless and another piece of evidence of arrogance and hypocrisy of the U.S. foreign policy.
The termination of all contracts with Turkish firms by Libya's interim government in Tobruk on Sunday is a price Ankara has to pay for its ill-thought-out foreign policy, analysts believe.
After almost one-month house arrest by the Houthi group, Yemen's outgoing President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi confirmed Sunday that he is carrying on with presidential duties after he left the country's capital Sanaa which is under the control of militia.
Greece won some time and breathing space pushing away scenarios of an imminent Grexit with the bridging arrangement reached on Friday with its euro zone interlocutors, but more tough challenges lie ahead, according to political analysts in Athens.
The agreement between Turkey and the United States on a long-anticipated deal to train and equip moderate Syrian opposition fighters does not signal that Turkey has given up on demands for no-fly zones or safe zones in Syria, Turkish analysts said.
The tense relations between Egypt and Qatar have been escalating regardless of reconciliatory efforts led by late Saudi King Abdullah and amid uncertain position of his successor King Salman.
Time was running out for a compromise deal on the Greek debt crisis between Greece and its international lenders after the ultimatum issued at the end of the latest Eurogroup meeting in Brussels on Monday evening, political analysts in Athens warned on Tuesday.
A lot of Egyptians believe that there should be an Arab alliance to combat terrorist groups in the Arab world, particularly the IS and its affiliates that have been growing fast in the region.
Marathon talks in Minsk have finally rekindled hope for a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine as four participating parties are involved in intense diplomacy to end the nearly one-year-old Ukraine crisis.
As Israeli products are available at a local mini-market in the West Bank city of Ramallah, the owner told Xinhua he is ready to cooperate with a boycott and remove these products off the shelves.
Besides their economic interests for both sides, the continuous closeness between Egypt and Russia and their growing strategic partnership indicate shared position on rejection of "U.S. hegemony."
The Obama administration is stepping up efforts to advance trade deals with Asia and Europe to cement a trade legacy as the administration has fallen short of its goal of doubling U.S. exports over five years.
With her scathing criticism of the U.S. proposal of providing Ukraine with arms still ringing in the ears, German Chancellor Angela Merkel travels to Washington on Monday in a trip that is likely to be tinged with embarrassment and bitterness.
Though the degree to which U.S. President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama will interact Thursday during the National Prayer Breakfast is unclear, any possible meeting or encounter between the two is sure to have negative consequences because the Dalai Lama is a political liability which backfires.
The expulsion of a Chinese Ph.D. student working at Norway's University of Agder has drawn worldwide attention as the authorities claimed his expertise could be used "for military purposes in other countries."
The cost of living in Italy dropped 0. 6 percent in January compared to the same month in 2014, the biggest single-month drop in more than half a century, a development economists say could erode some of the economic benefits from a weaker European currency.
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