A Lebanese man, thought to be associated with Hezbollah, has been extradited from Cyprus to the US on money laundering charges, the US Department of Justice announced on Saturday. Ghassan Diab,...

The first of three similar missions to take place this month

US President Donald Trump has told Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that Washington backs the expansion of Turkey’s efforts in Libya, the New Khaleej reported yesterday. Citing the intelligence news website, Tactical...

The oil tanker MT Gulf Sky, which was said to have been hijacked earlier this month off the UAE coast as it was allegedly trying to smuggle Iranian oil,...

Russian officials are now convinced that implementing a military solution in Syria is not possible, a US official has said. “Russia is convinced that a military solution cannot be...

An Iranian accused of spying for US and Israeli intelligence was executed on Monday, according to Iran’s official IRIB news agency, Reuters reports. Last month, the judiciary said Mahmoud...

An exiled Iranian opposition group that was the target of a failed bomb plot in France two years ago took its annual rally to the internet on Friday as...

Member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Washington and Baghdad, renewed their full support for the project to link GCC and Iraqi power grids, and invited participants of...

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said on Friday he is now getting intelligence briefings and has been told Russia continues to try to meddle in November’s US election....

Lebanese Minister of Industry Imad Hoballah revealed on Friday that: “Pressure has been exerted by the US administration on Arab countries not to cooperate with the Lebanese government.” Hoballah explained...

Israel aims to provoke Iran into a confrontation before the US general election in November, an EU intelligence official has said, according i24 News. In reference to a chain...

A missing security guard hired by a UAE diplomat in the southern Indian state of Kerala has been found with his wrists slashed. S R Jayaghosh was alleged to...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani discussed their countries’ fights against COVID-19 and Iran’s nuclear program. The two presidents “agreed to continue their cooperation in...

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, will address the nation’s largest Muslim American PAC (political action committee) on Monday, amidst an internal tug of war within the party over its...

The British army has withdrawn its remaining troops stationed at Camp Taji, north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, bringing an end to a six-year training mission of Iraqi security...

The US Court of International Trade has ruled that the additional tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump on Turkish steel exports are unconstitutional. Following the court’s decision, Turkish steel exporters...

The Egyptian and US military have discussed increasing military cooperation, according to a statement from the Egyptian Army. The statement came after a meeting between Egyptian Defence Minister Mohamed...

The commander of the Libyan National Army, renegade Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, has met with a high-level US military and political delegation, Al-Sharq Al-Awsat has reported. Sources close to...

The United States and the Gulf Arab states have imposed sanctions on six targets they believe are associated with the terror group Daesh and its financing, the US announced...

The US military command in Africa (AFRICOM) has accused a Russian company of ignoring the safety and security of civilians in Libya and planting mines and explosives in the...

US President Donald Trump has joined throngs of social media users posting the Persian hashtag meaning “No to Executions” to protest the planned execution of three men over their...

Lebanon has turned east, seeking to secure investments from China in a bid to overcome its financial crisis, the Associated Press reported. The agency said in a report published yesterday that...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that sanctions against Iran have no chance of succeeding, the Kremlin said, Anadolu reports. In a phone conversation with German Chancellor Angela...

Foreign ministers from 11 European countries have requested a list from the EU of the possible consequences of Israel’s plan to annex the occupied West Bank. The ministers also...

Iran has reportedly decided to proceed with construction of the Chabahar railway project without India’s assistance citing a funding delay from New Delhi and will instead tap into approximately...

Thailand has summoned the Egyptian ambassador after an Egyptian military crew member left a hotel where he was supposed to be self-isolating and later tested positive for COVID-19. Spokesman...

A Lebanese man accused of financing Hezbollah was freed from jail in the United States last month as a result of indirect contacts between Tehran and Washington that are...

Iran has executed a former defence ministry employee who sold information to the US Central Intelligence Agency, the Islamic Republic’s judiciary said on Tuesday. Reza Asgari had linked up...

The health of a Palestinian prisoner held at the Federal Correction Institute in Seagoville, Texas has been deteriorating due to a “lack of appropriate treatment” for Covid-19, Shehab news...

The military arm of Lebanon’s Hezbollah has filed a formal complaint against the US Ambassador Dorothy Shea following comments she made in a recent interview. Secretary-General of the Iranian-backed Shia militia Hasan...

Bangladesh police said on Monday they have arrested three men over the trafficking of hundreds of young women taken to Dubai on the promise of jobs in hotels and...

An attack on pro-Palestine activists by lobby groups favouring the state of Israel took a violent turn in Canada over the weekend as the right-wing Jewish terrorist group the...