China sees “enormous potential” in Saudi Arabia’s economy and wants more high-tech cooperation, the Chinese government’s top diplomat said, as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman began a two-day...

The commander of the overseas arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards threatened Saudi Arabia with revenge over a suicide bomb attack in southeastern Iran on February 13 that killed 27...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said yesterday that tension between his country and the United States had reached their peak, calling the US sanctions on his country a “terrorist act”...

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif accused Israel of engaging in “adventurism” with its bombing campaigns in Syria and said he could not rule out the possibility of a...

China’s desire to develop close ties with Iran will remain unchanged, regardless of the international situation, President Xi Jinping told the speaker of Iran’s parliament, ahead of Thursday’s visit...

France is in touch with Iran to improve the conditions of a French woman who was arrested in October on the Gulf island of Kish for allegedly signing an...

The Bahrain Supreme Criminal Court yesterday sentenced six people to varying prison terms and stripped five of them of their nationality after finding them guilty of receiving military training...

Iran lawmakers,  Hossein Ali Haji Delijani has accused Saudi Arabia of paying large sums of money to purchase Iranian cattle and sheep and smuggling them abroad via Iran’s southern...

The Russian-sponsored Palestinian unity talks in Moscow on February 11 were neither a success nor failure. Uniting Palestinian factions was not the primary objective of the Moscow conference, in...

Chief of Staff for the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Major general Mohammad Bagheri blamed on Monday Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for last...

Iran has become self-sufficient in gasoline production, Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said on Monday after the inauguration of the third phase of the Persian Gulf Star Refinery in...

Revolutionary Guards have broken up a group of militants in southeast Iran who were linked to a suicide bombing that killed 27 guards near the border with Pakistan last...

The lavish welcome for visiting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Islamabad this weekend could hardly have made more clear Pakistan’s dependence on foreign investments to prop up...

A committee of Iranian lawmakers has been formed to summon and question President Hassan Rouhani, which could potentially lead to a vote of confidence that could he seem removed...

Kuwait has reiterated its rejection of Arab countries’ normalisation with Israel, slamming those ministers who met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at last week’s Warsaw Conference. In a...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said yesterday that the risk of starting a war with Israel is “great”. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference in Germany, Zarif warned...

In 2009, then US Vice President Joe Biden came to Munich to “press the reset button” with Russia. A decade later he came again to offer the world better...

Yemeni government and Houthi representatives have reached an agreement on the first phase of their redeployment of forces under a UN-sponsored deal for the warring armies to leave the...

Iran is ready to work with all of its neighbours to secure peace in the Middle East in the face of US and Israeli aggression, President Hassan Rouhani said...

Iran on Saturday rejected accusations of anti-Semitism levelled against it by US Vice President Mike Pence, saying it respected Judaism but opposed Israel, which Tehran said was acting like...

Iran warned neighbouring Pakistan on Saturday it would “pay a heavy price” for allegedly harbouring militants who killed 27 of its elite Revolutionary Guards in a suicide bombing near...

Former general Benny Gantz, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s strongest challenger in an election scheduled for April, voiced support on Sunday for the right-wing leader’s tough policy towards Iran,...

The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday leaked a video of a speech made by Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir behind closed doors during this week’s Warsaw...

There are “shared interests” between Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Jordan and Israel, the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday. “The US is building...

Confronting “the Iranian threat” is more important than dealing with the Israel-Palestine issue, Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Khalid Bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa said in a panel discussion at this week’s Warsaw...

The geographical area occupied by Daesh is diminishing, according to the Pentagon, but the organisation itself will not disappear. The US Secretary of State has told his counterparts from...

Israel’s military intelligence has said that “Iran may use Iraq as a launching pad to target Israel, which would call for a response from Tel Aviv”. “Israeli airstrikes against...

Republican and Democratic members of the US Senate asked the Trump administration on Thursday to tell them more about the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at a Saudi consulate...

US Vice President Mike Pence accused European powers on Thursday of undermining Washington’s crackdown on Iran by trying to break US sanctions against Tehran, in remarks that were likely...

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia, Turkey and Iran had agreed to take unspecified extra steps to clear Syria’s Idlib region of what he called “a hotbed...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu let his guard slip yesterday by announcing that he was intent on starting a war with Iran. The belligerent remark was made by the...

Russia has decided not to attend the US-led international conference inaugurated yesterday in Polish capital Warsaw. The Russian Foreign Ministry said on social media that the meeting “is a...