Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state told US legislators on Thursday that fixing “the flaws” in the Iran nuclear deal would be a priority for him if given the job. Revising the 2015 nuclear accord (JCPOA) was in “America’s best interest”, Mike Pompeo told Senate Foreign Relations Committee at his confirmation hearing. The CIA […]

Russia said the Syrian army has liberated Douma, the last Eastern Ghouta town under militant control, less than two months into its counter-terrorism operation in the suburban area near the capital, Damascus. “The raised state flag over a building in the town of Douma has heralded the control over this location and therefore over the […]

Fifteen months into Donald Trump’s presidency, the United States finds itself on the cusp of a grave constitutional emergency at home — and closer to stumbling into direct conflict with Russia than at any time since the Cold War. It’s a moment when the chaos, wild rhetoric and crushing of presidential norms on which Trump […]

Yulia Skripal, who was poisoned in Britain last month along with her father, a former Russian spy, has said she did not wish to take up the offer of assistance from the Russian embassy in London. In a statement issued on her behalf by British police late on Wednesday, Skripal said her father, Sergei, remained […]

US President Donald Trump has scaled back from his position this morning, suggesting Russia working together and ending an arm race. Just this morning, Donald Trump threatened to attack Syria but now he retreated from his morning’s position only 40 minutes later calling for cooperation between Moscow and Washington, working together between them, and ending what […]

TEHRAN – Israel’s ambassador to Paris, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) and Maryam Rajavi, leader of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), have met in France, Pars Today quoted unnamed sources as saying on Wednesday. According the sources, the meeting was probably held in bin Salman’s recently purchased chateau, located an hour’s drive […]

In another hateful remarks, this time by Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, Iran is surprisingly characterized as a “vision of darkness” and Saudi Arabia as a “vision of light”. “There are two visions in the Middle East, a vision of light where you want to reform your country … and then there is a vision of […]

Germany’s head of domestic intelligence said on Wednesday there was a “high likelihood” that the Russian government was behind a cyber attack on German computer networks, although he conceded it was difficult to be 100-percent certain. Hans-Georg Maassen told reporters that German authorities carefully monitored the attack after it was discovered in December, and it […]

Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg accepted personal responsibility Tuesday for the leak of data on tens of millions of its users, while warning of an “arms race” against Russian disinformation during a high-stakes hearing with US lawmakers. In his first formal congressional appearance, the Facebook founder and chief executive answered questions for nearly five hours as […]

Azerbaijan votes on Wednesday in a snap presidential election boycotted by the main opposition parties and expected to extend the autocratic rule of President Ilham Aliyev. An Aliyev victory is widely seen as a foregone conclusion with the Caspian state’s downtrodden opposition unable to mount a serious challenge to his authoritarian rule. His position has […]