Britain will only pay its EU divorce bill if the bloc agrees the framework for a future trade deal, the new Brexit Secretary warned in an interview published Sunday. Dominic Raab, who replaced David Davis earlier this month after he quit the role in protest over the government’s Brexit strategy, said “some conditionality between the […]

President Donald Trump on Sunday hit back at bellicose comments by Iran’s president, warning him of dire consequences as the US intensifies its campaign against the Islamic republic. “NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE,” Trump said on Twitter […]

Iranian social media activists have launched a Twitter and Instagram hashtag calling on American Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iran. Iranians have taken to the social networking services, venting their anger at the American government trying to frame domestic economic dissatisfaction as a sign for regime change […]

The most damaging scandal of Emmanuel Macron’s presidency deepened on Saturday with his interior minister due to face a grilling in parliament over his response to a top security aide of Mr. Macron caught on video beating up a young man at a Paris protest in May. Opposition lawmakers have demanded that Mr. Macron, who […]

 Russia’s military said it had shot down two unidentified drones that attacked its Syrian airbase at Hmeimim military airport Saturday and Sunday, Russian agencies reported. The attacks caused no casualties or damage and the Hmeimim military airport is operating as normal, Interfax said. In January, Russia said that its troops had successfully repelled multiple drone […]

French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire says his country won’t engage in free trade talks with the US “with a gun to its head,” urging the Trump administration to revoke its tariffs on the imports of European steel and aluminum.  The prospect of a sweeping trans-Atlantic trade deal is becoming increasingly bleak as European officials […]

The Israeli military calls it “the campaign between the wars” — short but increasingly harsh operations against the Hamas rulers of Gaza that are meant to warn off the Islamist militant group and postpone, if not prevent, the next major conflagration. The problem is that each round of escalating violence may instead bring the next […]

The Russian Defense Ministry said that Russian air defenses destroyed on Friday night a drone that was sent from an area controlled by terrorists towards Hmeimim airbase in Lattakia. In a statement on Saturday, the Ministry said that monitoring systems in the airbase detected a drone heading towards the base after being launched from an […]

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Israel to avoid “further inflaming the situation” after the regime’s strikes claimed four lives on Friday. “I am gravely concerned over the dangerous escalation of violence in Gaza and southern Israel,” he said in a statement, AFP reported late on Saturday. “It is imperative that all sides urgently step […]

The warplanes of the US-led international coalition committed a new massacre against civilians from al-Sousa town in the countryside of al-Bukamal city southeast of Deir Ezzor. Local sources told SANA that the coalition’s warplanes carried out an airstrike targeting a group of civilians fleeing al-Sousa town to escape the coalition’s arbitrary bombardments and the crimes […]