An American political analyst said Europeans are “coddling” US President Donald Trump over the issue of Washington’s potential withdrawal from nuclear arms treaty with Russia feeling that it is in their interest not to ‘poke the bear’. “Very much like most Republicans in the US Senate and House, the Europeans are coddling President Trump. They […]

The US military will this year conduct its first ever missile drill around the Japanese island of Okinawa, according to a report Thursday, as Washington seeks to counter China. The US military has told its Japanese counterpart it plans to deploy surface-to-ship missiles in the strategically important Okinawa this year for the first such drill […]

Arm teachers, spend more on school security and mental health and train police to be more aggressive when responding to school shootings — those are some of the recommendations in a report into the deadliest US high school shooting released Wednesday. The 485-page report into the Parkland, Florida school massacre, that left 14 students and […]

At least 376 migrants died at the US-Mexico border in 2018, according to a UN monitor. The estimate from the International Organization on Migration’s Missing Migrants Project includes 214 men, 20 women and four children. The other 138 could not be identified from their remains. Others likely died, but their remains have not been found, […]

A commander of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), also known as Hashd al-Shaabi, said the PMU and other security forces are in full control of the common border with Syria. In a statement on Wednesday, Tahsin al-Husseini said he visited common borders between Iraq and Syria north of Euphrates earlier in the day to evaluate […]

 Chinese President Xi Jinping said that his country won’t promise to abstain from using force when countering foreign meddling and separatist movements in Taiwan. He made the remarks Wednesday at a gathering commemorating the 40th anniversary of issuing the Message to Compatriots in Taiwan that marked a thaw in China-Taiwan relations. “We make no promise […]

Leader of the Islamic Revolution representative to Syria Ayatollah Abolfazl Tabatabaei met and held talks with Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East John X Yazigi. The meeting was organized in Syria on the occasion of the New Year, Fars News Agency reported. Islam, Christianity, and all other religion do not contradict but […]

 A professor of political science at the University of Cambridge has strongly criticized the U.S. sanctions against Iran, calling the sanctions a “cowardly approach” toward the Islamic Republic. In an interview with ILNA published on Tuesday, John Dunn said the United States is only pursuing its own interests by imposing sanctions on Tehran. Dunn emphasized […]

European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini has said that the EU is working with the rest of the international community to preserve the 2015 nuclear agreement, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. “We are working, as a union of 28 member states and with the rest of the international community, to […]

 At least nine people died and over 30 others are missing following a landslide in Indonesia’s West Java region. The landslide triggered by heavy seasonal rains hit Sirnaresmi village, burying around 30 houses, said Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman of the National Disaster Management Agency. It also injured three people. Rescue teams scramble to find survivors, […]