British lawmakers are certain to back a proposed Brexit agreement if it does not include the backstop, a controversial Irish border arrangement, British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt told a Polish newspaper. The British parliament will vote later on Thursday on Prime Minister Theresa May’s plan for an agreement with the European Union on the terms […]

President Nicolas Maduro said Wednesday that US President Donald Trump continues to threaten Venezuela with military intervention and urged all nations to stand in solidarity with his country. Speaking to reporters at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Maduro recalled Trump’s previous remarks signaling military intervention was “an option” after Washington recognized opposition leader Juan […]

Asserting congressional authority over war-making powers, the US House of Representatives approved a resolution Wednesday that would force the Trump administration to withdraw US troops from involvement in Yemen, in a rebuke of Donald Trump’s alliance with the Saudi-led coalition b Lawmakers in both parties are increasingly uneasy over the humanitarian crisis in Yemen and […]

US and Chinese negotiators began trade talks Thursday that President Donald Trump says will help decide whether he escalates a fight over Beijing’s technology ambitions by raising tariffs on $200 billion of imports from China. Businesspeople and economists say the two days of talks are unlikely to resolve the battle that threatens to drag on […]

The US Congress on Thursday aimed to end a dispute over border security with legislation that would ignore President Donald Trump’s request for $5.7 billion to help build a wall on the US-Mexico border but avoid a partial government shutdown. Late on Wednesday, negotiators put the finishing touches on legislation to fund the Department of […]

All commitments on the delivery of S-400 air defense missile systems to India under a $5 billion contract will be fully implemented, including schedule, Russian Ambassador to India Nikolay Kudashev said. “I’m sure that the contract will make a significant contribution to ensuring India’s security and will serve as proof of the special nature of […]

 A senior official at the Turkish Foreign Ministry said his country will not have any representatives in the US-sponsored anti-Iran conference, which is set be hosted by Poland in Warsaw later today. “Turkey’s political participation in such a meeting that targets one country is out of question,” a senior Foreign Ministry official told the Hürriyet […]

 The Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) minister for trade, Veronika Nikishina, said the EAEU member countries are ready to continue talks with Iran to develop trade and economic cooperation. She made the remark during the signing ceremony of a trilateral memorandum of understanding on wheat trade between Russia, Kazakhstan and Iran. The signing ceremony took place on February […]

 The Iranian foreign minister says that no other country in the world has faced as many foreign conspiracies as Iran, adding that the Islamic Republic of Iran has preserved its independence through reliance on its people. “Without people, we are nothing and with this people we are everything. This is a principle on which the […]

The US-led ‘International Coalition’ continued to shell residential areas as at least 20 civilians were martyred, including children, in al-Baghouz village in the far southeastern countryside of Deir Ezzor. Local sources told SANA that warplanes of the ‘International Coalition’ on Monday evening launched airstrikes on the outskirts of al-Baghouz village to the southeast of al-Bokmal […]