Iranian army commandos and paratroopers started exercises near the mouth of the Gulf on Tuesday, the last full day of US President Donald Trump's administration.
State television showed paratroopers landing behind mock enemy lines near the port of (...)
Joe Biden's inauguration yesterday has ushered in a new era, raising the hope – in the Middle East and around the world – that the four years of American foreign policy wilderness under Donald Trump are well and truly behind us. This is as relevant (...)
The Middle East Donald Trump inherited from his predecessors in January 2017 was a place in tatters. The Islamic State (IS) was in control of large swathes of Iraq and Syria. Civil wars raged in Yemen and Libya. Iran and Turkey, each dreaming of (...)
Anxiety over what Donald Trump might be up to as president ended with Joe Biden's inauguration yesterday, though Trump is still likely to stir up trouble in other ways. Back here our concern is rather with Biden's plans for the Middle East. Biden's (...)
It has been ten years since widespread protests erupted in Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Libya and Yemen, in addition to smaller-scale ones in a few other Arab countries, with the protests as a whole being collectively named the Arab Spring.
The immediate (...)
A lot of the characters are the same for President-elect Joe Biden but the scene is far starker as he reassembles a team of veteran negotiators to get back into the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.
President Donald Trump worked to blow up the (...)
Syria said on Sunday it would import more crude oil to cover fuel shortages it blames on Western sanctions that disrupted regular Iranian oil shipments that had for years compensated for the country's loss of domestic oil production as a result of (...)
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the latest Houthi attack on Jazan governorate in Saudi Arabia, affirming Cairo's support to the kingdom against terrorism.
The "Egyptian government and people reiterate that they stand by the sisterly (...)
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has announced that the first presidential and parliamentary elections since 2006 will be held later this year. But the road to the vote — key to advancing Palestinian statehood and mending a rift between Abbas' (...)
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Sunday dismissed a claim by France that Tehran was in the process of building up its nuclear weapons, calling it "absurd nonsense".
French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, in an interview with the (...)
India started inoculating health workers Saturday in what is likely the world's largest COVID-19 vaccination campaign, joining the ranks of wealthier nations where the effort is already well underway.
India is home to the world's largest vaccine (...)
President-elect Joe Biden on Saturday filled out his State Department team with a group of former career diplomats and veterans of the Obama administration, signaling his desire to return to a more traditional foreign policy after four years of (...)
The global death toll from COVID-19 topped 2 million Friday, crossing the threshold amid a vaccine rollout so immense but so uneven that in some countries there is real hope of vanquishing the outbreak, while in other, less-developed parts of the (...)
The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on companies in Iran, China and the United Arab Emirates for doing business with the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines and on three Iranian entities over conventional arms proliferation.
They are (...)
The UN humanitarian chief is urging the United States to reverse its decision to declare Yemen's Houthi rebels a terrorist group, warning that the designation will likely lead to “a large-scale famine on a scale that we have not seen for nearly 40 (...)
Yemen's Houthi movement will not walk away from peace talks with the United Nations and Saudi Arabia despite the US decision to designate the Iran-aligned group as a foreign terrorist organisation, the Houthi chief negotiator told Reuters.
US (...)
The number of COVID-19 cases worldwide has surpassed 90 million, reaching 90,054,813 as of Wednesday, according to the latest numbers from the World Health Organization (WHO).
Globally, as of 9:47 am CET (0847 GMT) on Wednesday, there have been (...)
Iran's navy began a short-range missile drill in the Gulf of Oman on Wednesday and inaugurated its largest military vessel, state TV reported, amid heightened tensions over Tehran's nuclear program and a US pressure campaign against the Islamic (...)
تفاقمت حدة التوتر بين الولايات المتحدة وإيران، وسط توقعات بالإعلان عن مزيد من العقوبات ضد إيران، خلال الساعات المقبلة، بعد أن اتهم وزير الخارجية الأمريكى مايك بومبيو طهران مجموعة من المتطرفين يهتفون ب"الموت لأمريكا".
ونشر وزير الخارجية الأمريكى صورا (...)
شن وزير الخارجية الأمريكي، مايك بومبيو، اليوم الثلاثاء، هجومًا على عدد من القادة الإيرانيين، قائلًا إنهم يمثلون تهديدًا لأمريكا.
ونشر بومبيو صورًا عبر حسابه على موقع "تويتر" تضم المرشد الإيراني علي خامنئي، والرئيس الإيراني، حسن روحاني، ووزير (...)
كتب محمد عبد العظيم - أحمد عرفة
وصل التصعيد الإيرانى الأمريكى إلى مرحلة جديدة، وسط توقعات بالإعلان عن مزيد من العقوبات ضد إيران، خلال الساعات المقبلة، حيث يواصل وزير الخارجية الأمريكى مايك بومبيو إصدار تصريحات نارية ضد طهران.
ووفقا لموقع العربية، (...)
صرح مايك بومبيو، وزير الخارجية الأمريكي، أن الولايات المتحدة قد قامت بفرض عقوبات على إثنين من قادة تنظيم "القاعدة" في إيران وثلاثة من قادة كتائبها الكردية.
كما وقد أعلن بومبيو، في مؤتمر صحفي في نادي الصحاف الوطني في واشنطن، اليوم الثلاثاء "نعلن (...)
صرح مايك بومبيو، وزير الخارجية الأمريكي، أن إيران قد أصبحت الوطن الجديد ل تنظيم "القاعدة" الإرهابي، مُشيراً إلى أن نواب أيمن الظواهري متواجدون حاليًا هناك.
تصريحات مايك بومبيو:
كما كان قد أضاف بومبيو في مؤتمر صحفي، مساء اليوم الثلاثاء، أن "إيران (...)
In June 2017, Egypt joined three Gulf countries – Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain – in severing diplomatic ties with Qatar, starting a total boycott of the small country. Qatar's national carrier was no longer allowed to fly to the four countries (...)
Aid agencies were thrown into confusion Monday over the Trump administration's out-the-door decision to designate Yemen's Iranian-backed rebels as a terror organization, which they warned could wreck the tenuous relief system keeping millions alive (...)
