Member states of the United Nations

Romania's Foreign Minister Titus Corlatean said on Monday at the end of an official meeting with his Azeri counterpart, Elmar Mammadyarov that he evoked the possibility of setting up a freight corridor linking the Caspian Sea region to the Black Sea and then further to the European Union market.

A few Arab countries are ready to offer assistance in the air strikes carried out against the Sunni militants in Iraq and Syria, according to US officials.

Several waves of Western sanctions against Moscow for its involvement in the Ukraine crisis have limited access to foreign capital for Russia's largest banks and key oil companies

The violence in Iraq has further dimmed Turkey’s hopes to get a trade boost from its neighbors, after trade with Syria had already been badly hit by the war

The 10-day detention of two World Cup 2022-related labor rights researchers from Britain points to escalating hostilities between Qatar and the United Arab Emirates over Doha’s support for the Muslim Brotherhood

Leaders of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood group and allied clerics say they are departing Qatar, where they had sought refuge

Ukraine is 'still in a state of war' with neighboring Russia despite a cease-fire between Kiev's forces and Moscow-backed rebels in the east, the country's prime minister says

Stronger China-Russia ties "against external risks"

DUSHANBE -- China and Russia should strengthen their ties against the rise of "external risks", Chinese President Xi Jinping has said.

He made the comments in his talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

ISIL now have about 20,000 to 31,500 fighters on the ground in Iraq and Syria, the Central Intelligence Agency, much higher than a previous estimate of 10,000

BERLIN - Konstantin Samofalov, spokesperson of the New Democratic Party (NDS), which has seats in the Serbian parliament, has taken part in a conference organised by the ASPEN institute in Berlin, where the topics were the rule of law in the Western Balkans and the EU enlargement policy.