Iran said it had asked the US and French authorities for equipment to download information from black boxes on a downed Ukrainian airliner, potentially angering countries which want the recorders analysed abroad.
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Following the mass protests in the Arab world that toppled decades-long regimes in major Arab nations like Egypt and Tunisia, the gas-rich statelet Qatar has tried to have a foot in the political future of both nations, among others, through (...)
Former Iran coach Branko Ivankovic has been handed the reins of the Oman national team, replacing Erwin Koeman at the helm.
The Oman Football Association made the announcement on its social media channels late on Sunday, a month after Koeman's (...)
A roadside bomb struck a car with Afghan government employees in southern Zabul province on Thursday, killing the driver and four passengers, officials said.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack though the provincial police (...)
Four dilemmas have long dominated Iranian thinking. The first is cultural. Iran was the first major empire that fell to the Islamic forces that emerged from Arabia in the 7th century. The highly sophisticated civilisation embraced the religion that (...)
Five days after Qassem Suleimani, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard's Al-Quds Force, was killed in an American drone attack in Iraq, Israel bombed Iranian military locations in the city of Al-Bukamal in eastern Syria on the border (...)
Japan and the world as a whole recently lost a prominent Japanese woman who had had a national and global impact for over five decades in the person of the late Dr Sadako Ogata who has passed away at the age of 92. I had the great privilege of (...)
Two U.S. service members were killed and two others injured when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said in a statement Saturday.
In keeping with defense department rules, the U.S. military did not (...)
Iran acknowledged that it "unintentionally" shot down the Ukrainian passenger plane that crashed last week killing all 176 people on board, after initial denial.
The Iranian Army, known as AJA, said on Saturday that the plane flew near “a sensitive (...)
Iran military officially acknowledged that it shot down a Ukrainian passenger plane that crashed shortly after it took off from Tehran's main airport last week.
In a statement that was published on Saturday by Iran's official news agency, the (...)
A powerful explosion ripped through a mosque in southwest Pakistan during Friday evening prayers, killing a senior police officer and at least eight civilians, police said.
The bombing also wounded 11 other worshipers in the city of Quetta, the (...)
“Egyptian political leaders have long believed that their country should be the centre of gravity in the Middle East and the bridge that connects this troubled part of the world to Europe, Asia, and Africa, citing geostrategic, demographic, (...)
There is nothing new in the way Democrats and their camp in the United States portray decisions taken by US President Donald Trump as both unilateral and uninformed, and Trump's order to assassinate Qassem Suleimani, the commander of the Al-Quds (...)
The United States and some other Western powers deploy weaponry and other military equipment in the Gulf to provide security to its allies in the oil-producing region.
For years there have been between 60,000 and 80,000 troops deployed to the U.S. (...)
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday accused Iran of working to thwart efforts to bring peace to Afghanistan, but he offered no specific details to support his allegation.
Pompeo leveled his charge amid an escalating crisis with Iran (...)
During the eight-year Iraq-Iran war, Esmail Ghaani was the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) divisions Nasr-5 and Imam Reza -21, playing a pivotal role in the war, according to the official IRNA news agency. Ghaani had also (...)
Qassem Soleimani, the commander of Iran's elite Quds Force and the second most powerful in Tehran, was killed by an overnight drone strike early on Friday near the Baghdad airport in an attack authorised by United States President Donald Trump.
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The U.S. airstrike that killed a prominent Iranian general in Baghdad raises tensions even higher between Tehran and Washington, after months of trading attacks and threats across the wider Middle East.
How Iran will respond remains in question as (...)
For Iranians whose icons since the Islamic Revolution have been stern-faced clergy, Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani widely represented a figure of national resilience in the face of four decades of U.S. pressure.
For the U.S. and Israel, he was a shadowy (...)
Thousands of Indians are set to ring in the New Year by holding protests against a citizenship law, despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi's attempts to dampen demonstrations that have run for nearly three weeks.
India has been rocked by the protests (...)
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has devised technology to restrict the use of anti-aircraft missiles after they leave American hands, a researcher said, a move that experts say could persuade the United States that it would be safe to (...)
The chief minister of India's Uttar Pradesh state has rebuffed accusations from rights groups of police abuses during protests against a new citizenship law, crediting his tough stand with restoring calm to the streets.
The northern state has seen (...)
A group of protesters in New Delhi was beaten and shoved into buses by police on Friday as they attempted to demonstrate against a new citizenship law that has triggered nationwide protests in recent weeks.
About two dozen people gathered near an (...)
A boat carrying migrants capsized in a lake in eastern Turkey on Thursday, killing seven people on board, officials said. At least 64 migrants were rescued.
The boat sank in Lake Van as it approached the town of Adilcevaz in Bitlis province, the (...)
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government did not anticipate the protests against a new citizenship law that have raged across the country and is now scrambling to control the damage, members of his ruling party said.
In Modi's biggest (...)
