Saudi Arabia's monarch expressed hope Wednesday that the kingdom's direct talks with Iran will lead to confidence building as the two bitter regional rivals take small steps toward dialogue following several years of heightened tensions.
King Salman (...)
A convoy of tanker trucks carrying Iranian diesel crossed the border from Syria into Lebanon early Thursday, a delivery organized by the militant Hezbollah group to ease crippling fuel shortages in the crisis-hit country.
The delivery violates U.S. (...)
Lebanon formed a new government after 13 months of political feuding and economic meltdown, exacerbated by the Beirut Port blast of August 2020.
The names of the cabinet ministers generated heated debate in public and political circles. Although, as (...)
It is too early to talk about recognizing the future Afghan government or attending its inauguration ceremony, the spokesman for Iran's Foreign Affairs Ministry said on Monday during his weekly press conference.
"We must observe the formation of the (...)
The head of Iran's civilian nuclear program says Tehran will allow UN inspectors to install new memory cards into surveillance cameras at its sensitive atomic sites and to continue filming there.
Mohammad Eslami made the comment Sunday after a (...)
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi will meet Iran's president on Sunday in Tehran to discuss issues including energy and Iran-Saudi relations, a government source said Friday.
The visit will mark Kadhemi's first meeting with Ebrahim Raisi since (...)
Iran has continued to increase its stockpile of highly enriched uranium that could be used to make nuclear weapons in contravention of a 2015 accord with world powers that was meant to contain Tehran's nuclear program, the U.N. atomic watchdog said (...)
Leader of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan Ahmed Massoud wrote on Facebook on Sunday that he welcomed a proposal by religious scholars to negotiate a settlement with the Taliban to end the fighting in the provincial capital of (...)
UN new Envoy to Yemen Hans Grundberg was greeted with a series of escalations in the conflict in the country this week, as the fighting continued both domestically and through attacks on neighbouring Saudi Arabia.
Grundberg, who assumed his new role (...)
A senior Lebanese government delegation arrived in Syria on Saturday for talks expected to focus on the crippling fuel crisis that has paralyzed Lebanon. It marked the highest official visit since Syria's civil war began more than a decade (...)
A delegation of four U.S. senators said Wednesday that America is looking to help Lebanon overcome fuel shortages that have paralyzed the country. But they warned the import of Iranian oil into the crisis-hit country could have 'severely damaging (...)
Iran's state TV is reporting that the country's Interior Ministry has approved a new hard-line mayor for the capital, Tehran, after a city council election.
Alireza Zakani, 55 heads a parliamentary research center, and he was one of the seven (...)
China is commonly perceived as the "great enigma." More common is the tendency to work around the puzzle of how to deal with Beijing by lumping it together with more familiar contemporary or historical powers. Whether one takes this tack or that, (...)
Eight years into the war local Yemeni reports indicate that Hans Grundberg, who had replaced Martin Griffiths as UN special envoy earlier this month, has familiarised himself with and reached out to all political factions and social components (...)
Iran and the Western countries are trying to prepare the ground for the resumption of the talks on Iran's nuclear programme, suspended since June because of the Iranian presidential elections.
While European diplomatic sources say there is no clear (...)
أكد مسؤولان أمريكيان لوكالة أنباء رويترز أن الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية نفذت ضربة عسكرية في العاصمة الأفغانية كابول.
أعلنت الشرطة في محيط مطار كابول أن صاروخًا أصاب المنطقة التاسعة في كابول، حسبما أفادت مصادر لشبكة سكاي نيوز.
Li Efxanistanê teqîn (...)
أعلنت الشرطة في محيط مطار كابول أن صاروخًا أصاب المنطقة التاسعة في كابول، حسبما أفادت مصادر لشبكة سكاي نيوز.
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— ÎLKHA (@ilkhakurdi) (...)
Iran and Syria vowed on Sunday to take ``mighty steps'' to confront U.S. sanctions imposed on the two regional allies, saying their relations will strengthen under Iran's new leadership.
The announcement was made by Iran's new Foreign Minister (...)
The police chief for Iran's capital says a gang of thieves has robbed scores of COVID-19 vaccines after attacking a hired car carrying the doses, media reported.
The robbery comes as Iran, with over 106,000 virus-related deaths, has the highest (...)
President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett are set to hold their first face-to-face meeting Thursday, and Israel's new leader intends to press Biden to give up pursuit of reviving the Iran nuclear deal.
Before arriving in (...)
The Iranian parliament has been discussing the cabinet lineup submitted by the new President Ebrahim Raisi ahead of approving it. The discussions inside the legislature of the Islamic Republic have been largely left out by international media: only (...)
For nearly four decades, the Middle East has been picking up the pieces of the US strategic folly in Afghanistan and paying the price for its unending wars in the region.
The debacle led to the creation of Islamic jihad by CIA proxies that rose (...)
The leader of the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group said Thursday that an Iranian fuel tanker will sail toward Lebanon ``within hours,'' warning Israel and the United States not to intercept it.
The delivery organized by Lebanon-based Hezbollah, (...)
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has discussed the situation in Afghanistan with his Chinese and Russian counterparts.
The Iranian president's website, president.ir, reported on Wednesday that he talked on the phone with Chinese President Xi Jinping (...)
Recent indications of the continued failure by Tehran and Washington to reach an agreement on how to revive the 2015 nuclear deal about. There is Iran's alleged attack on an oil tanker belonging to an Israeli company off the coast of Oman, the (...)
