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 […]

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussed over phone cooperation in solving the crisis in Syria. The Russian Foreign Ministry said in statement on Saturday that Lavrov and Pompeo discussed during the call initiated by the US side the situation in Syria and means of cooperation to deliver humanitarian […]

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 after he quit the role earlier this month in protest over the government’s Brexit strategy, said “some conditionality between the […]

TEHRAN – Francis Boyle, a professor of international law at the University of Illinois, has said that Iran can call on the International Court of Justice to temporarily stop the return of U.S. sanctions. “The Islamic Republic of Iran can call for the court’s ruling on stopping the sanctions which would be temporarily. This action […]

US President Donald Trump on Friday signed into law a bill designed to promote human rights in North Korea. The legislation, called the North Korean Human Rights Reauthorization Act of 2017, renews a law that was first adopted in 2004 during the George W. Bush administration. It will be in effect until 2022. “This legislation […]

 A former adviser to Hillary Clinton brought a hip hop band and dancers to the White House for the fifth night of a multi-day protest on Friday. Adam Parkhomenko has been organizing the “Occupy Lafayette Park” protests since President Trump’s controversial summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday. Footage captured from the Friday protest […]

Israel and Palestine’s Hamas resistance movement have agreed to restore calm in the Gaza Strip, a spokesman for Hamas said on Saturday. “With Egyptian and United Nations efforts it has been agreed to return to the era of calm between (Israel) and Palestinian factions,” Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum told Reuters. Israel did not immediately comment […]