TEHRAN – Turkey said on Wednesday it would not hesitate to take action in Syria’s Afrin district and other areas unless the United States withdrew support for a Kurdish-led force there, but Washington denied such plans and said “some people misspoke”. Turkish President Erdogan has repeatedly warned of an imminent incursion in Afrin after Washington […]

TEHRAN – French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Theresa May will announce a new treaty on how to handle migrants hoping to head to Britain, the French presidency said Wednesday. The treaty, set to be announced at a summit in London on Thursday, will “complete the Le Touquet accord”, Macron’s office said in […]

TEHRAN – Yemeni forces launched a missile attack against an operations center of the Saudi military in the kingdom’s border province of Najran. The missile command of the Yemeni army fired a Qaher M2 missile at the center, the Arabic-language Al-Manar television network reported. The missile hit the center, located in the Khadhra crossing point […]

TEHRAN – Turkey will never accept a force in Syria led by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a group dominated by the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told the chief of NATO on Jan. 16. The phone conversation followed a recent decision by the United States to form a border protection […]

At least three Saudi-led troops have been killed over the past 24 hours during retaliatory military operations by Yemeni armed forces. In the latest incident, an Emirati slider, Abdullah al-Hosani, was killed on Thursday, the UAE’s official WAM news agency reported, citing the general command of the country’s armed forces. The report did not mention […]

TEHRAN – An Emirati soldier has been killed in Yemen, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) military announced Thursday. The General Command of the UAE Armed Forces announced the death of soldier Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah al-Hosani, the official Emirates News Agency (ENA) reported. Al-Hosani was reportedly killed while taking part in operations being conducted in Yemen […]

The European Parliament called Tuesday for a ban on electric pulse fishing in the European Union, defying Brussels which wants the experimental practice in the North Sea done on a larger scale. The parliament, the EU’s only directly elected body, will now try to strike a compromise with the European Commission, the bloc’s executive, and […]

TEHRAN – Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabi Berri said on Tuesday that a violation of the Iran nuclear deal will be detrimental to all parties, urging all the signatories to honor the clauses of the multilateral agreement. “Any violation of the nuclear deal with Iran by 5+1 countries will be harmful to all the countries,” noted […]

TEHRAN – European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini met on Monday with Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Adel Al Jubeir to discuss various issues, including the Iran nuclear deal, also known as the JCPOA. According to European Union’s website, “they discussed, among other issues, the Middle East peace process, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon, the JCPOA, […]

NEW DELHI – On Sunday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose animated bear hug easily beats Trump’s awkward handshake, went against protocol to welcome his new friend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the New Delhi airport. After a bear hug and handshakes, the six-day visit kicked off with both leaders extolling each other and […]