FIVE YEARS ago Barack Obama delivered a bracing message to Saudi Arabia. “The competition between the Saudis and the Iranians,” he warned, “has helped to feed proxy wars and chaos…
Former White House senior adviser Jared Kushner and his deputy, Avi Berkowitz, have been nominated for the Nobel peace prize for their role in negotiating four normalisation deals between Israel and Arab nations known…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18wAj8E9Hf4 Israel's Health Minister gives unconvincing reasons for non-vaccinations of Palestinians....The short interview starts at 43:00 and lasts a couple of minutes. While Israel has sprinted ahead in vaccinating its…
The US flew nuclear-capable B-52 bombers to the Middle East Wednesday in the latest show of force meant to deter Iran, as defense officials remain divided over the risk posed by the…
A burnt-out car at the site where Blackwater guards opened fire in western Baghdad on 16 September 2007. Photograph: Ali Yussef/AFP/Getty Images Iraqis have reacted with outrage to Donald Trump’s move…
Former Israeli space security chief says extraterrestrials exist, and Trump knows about it.
Iran will not accept preconditions from a new Biden administration over its nuclear programme and the US must return to a 2015 deal before talks can take place, its foreign…
If the Iranians retaliate, giving Mr. Trump a pretext to launch a return strike before he leaves office in January, Mr. Biden will be inheriting bigger problems than just the…
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Father of Iran's Nuclear Program Iran has vowed retaliation after the architect of its nuclear programme was assassinated on a highway near Tehran, in a major escalation of…
The Israel Defense Forces have in recent weeks been instructed to prepare for the possibility that the U.S. will conduct a military strike against Iran before President Trump leaves office,…
The agreement was finalized Thursday during a meeting between Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Defense Secretary Mark Israel has agreed to allow the U.S. to sell "certain weapons" to…
Iranian tankers delivering gasoline to Venezuela in late May 2020 The United States revealed on Thursday it had seized Iranian missiles shipped to Yemen and sold 1.1 million barrels of…
Treatment at a centre in Sana’a combating malnutrition. Photograph: Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images “Food security crisis means acute malnutrition among under-fives at highest levels since war engulfed the country.” https://twitter.com/OCHAYemen/status/1320989469869301761?s=20 Almost…
"Where's my favorite dictator?" US President Donald Trump reportedly asked while waiting for his Egyptian counterpart, former general Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, on the sidelines of the G7 summit last year. It…
Hosted by his close ally Donald Trump, Netanyahu will on Tuesday sign agreements with Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates that, while falling short of full peace deals, allow the countries to establish open business, direct flights and diplomatic relations.
In retaliation to Trump’s decision to kill a powerful Iranian general earlier this year, it appears the Iranian government is weighing an assassination attempt against the American ambassador to South Africa,…
A huge fire broke out at the Port of Beirut on Thursday, triggering panic among residents traumatized by last month's massive explosion there that killed and injured thousands of people. It was…
Trump son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner will hold talks with U.K. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab in London on Thursday.The top White House aide is flying to Britain on Wednesday…
Over 44,000 people have signed an online petition to "place Lebanon under a French mandate for the next 10 years" as of Thursday afternoon. The petition on the community petition website…
Europe and Iran have completed their first transaction under a complicated barter system set up to dodge US sanctions on the Islamic Republic. Germany's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that the…
He has become known as the crown prince of propaganda. Armed with a series of very expensive strategy documents authored by the Boston Consulting Group and branded as his Vision…
Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed victory in Israel’s third election within a year, even as the country looked set for further political deadlock after early counts suggested he was still short of…
"The government of Afghanistan has made no commitment to free 5,000 Taliban prisoners," President Ghani told reporters in Kabul on Sunday, a day after the accord was signed in Qatar's capital, Doha.…
On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to allow 3,500 new Israeli settlements in a contested region of the West Bank known as the “E-1 zone,” short for East-1. E-1 is an “underpopulated”…
Iran said on Tuesday that its top court had confirmed a death sentence for an Iranian man accused of spying for US intelligence. Amir Rahimpour was found guilty of passing…