The chief of MI5, the United Kingdom’s domestic counter-intelligence and security agency, has warned that terror attacks will show no sign of abating in the UK in the immediate future.“The threat is multi-dimensional, evolving rapidly and operating at a scale and pace we’ve not seen before. It’s at the highest tempo I have seen in […]

Qatar has accused Saudi Arabia of trying to engineer “regime change” during its four-month blockade of its neighbor.Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani told CNBC on Tuesday that Riyadh is attempting to destabilize Qatar’s leadership, Al Jazeera reported.“We see [Saudi] government officials talking about regime change … We see a country that is […]

In a report published on Wednesday, human rights group Amnesty International said Myanmar’s security forces had surrounded villages, shot fleeing inhabitants, set buildings alight and burned to death the elderly and those unable to flee.  “In this orchestrated campaign, Myanmar’s security forces have brutally meted out revenge on the entire Rohingya population of northern Rakhine […]

An explosion ripped through a police truck on Wednesday killing at least seven people in Pakistan’s southwestern city of Quetta, police said. The attack claimed by Pakistani Taliban killed five police officials and two passers-by on the outskirts of the city of Quetta, police chief Abdur Razzaq Cheema said, TRT reported. He said 24 people […]

The EU foreign policy chief has reaffirmed the bloc’s commitment to the 2015 international nuclear agreement between Iran and six other countries in the face of the belligerent US rhetoric against the accord. “At a time of acute nuclear threats the European Union is determined to preserve the JCPOA as a key pillar of the international non-proliferation architecture,” Federica […]

TEHRAN  – The Trump administration’s retreat from the Iran nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers will make it harder for other countries to take the US seriously on a range of topics, former US energy secretary Ernest Moniz said. Trump’s announcements have “challenged the cohesion of the US and its allies,” Moniz said, Washington […]

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps denounced the “featherbrained” US president for his recent insults against the Iranian nation and his hostile comments about the IRGC, pledging that it will press on with plans to broaden its regional clout and boost Iran’s missile power. In a statement on Thursday, the IRGC lashed out at US President […]

TEHRAN  – Taliban militants launched two separate attacks on Afghan security installations killing dozens of soldiers Thursday. At least 43 Afghan soldiers were killed in a Taliban-claimed assault on a military base in southern Afghanistan which saw the insurgents blast their way into the compound with at least one explosives-laden Humvee, the defense ministry said, […]

Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont has threatened to formally declare independence if Spain moves to suspend the region’s autonomy, a regional government source says, as a Madrid-imposed deadline arrives for Catalonia to unambiguously drop its secession bid. Puigdemont told members of his Catalan Democratic Party (CUP) on Wednesday that he would issue a formal independence declaration […]

The regional foreign minister of Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has said that the semi-autonomous region has never intended to engage in a confrontation with the Iraqi military. In an interview with broadcaster CNN, Falah Mustafa Bakir underlined the need for dialog between the KRG and Iraqi government in an attempt to achieve a common […]