The United Kingdom is keeping a close eye on the final use of weapons it sells to Saudi Arabia, according to a top diplomat.Matthew Rycroft, the UK’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, told reporters on Tuesday that the country has measures in place to ensure weapons are used correctly, Al Jazeera reported.“The UK has […]

A Kurdish security official confirmed Tuesday that hundreds of suspected self-styled Islamic State militants surrendered to Kurdish authorities after Iraqi government forces reclaimed the IS base in Hawija, a major Iraqi city north of Baghdad.“Approximately 1,000 men surrendered over the last week. Not all, however, are terrorists,” the security official said, explaining that many militants […]

Representatives of Afghanistan, China, Pakistan and the United States will meet in Oman next week to discuss reviving peace talks with Afghan Taliban militants, an Afghan official and a Pakistani Foreign Ministry source said on Wednesday.But it was not clear if Afghan Taliban representatives would join the talks. Taliban sources said they had not yet […]

Russia’s Foreign Ministry does not rule out ordering the United States to cut its diplomatic staff in Russia to 300 people or below, the RIA news agency cited Georgy Borisenko, the head of the ministry’s North America Department, as saying on Wednesday.In July, Moscow ordered the United States to cut the number of its diplomatic […]

Earlier Wednesday, Republican and Democratic leaders of the US House Foreign Affairs Committee urged Trump against abandoning the Iran nuclear deal on eve of Trump’s decision to decertify the JCPOA. US President Donald Trump said Wednesday he would soon reveal his strategy toward Iran and that he alone would decide on it, despite disagreement among […]

US President Donald Trump called the Iran deal “incompetently drawn” in an interview with Fox News on Wednesday night. “I think it was one of the most incompetently drawn deals I’ve ever seen,” Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity. “$150 billion given — we got nothing. They got a path to nuclear weapons very quickly, […]

The UN has announced that it is on “full alert” for a mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims as reports show a sharp spike of them fleeing Myanmar. “We’re back in a situation of full alert as far as influxes are concerned. It is a big increase to see 11,000,” said the spokesman for the UN High […]

British Prime Minister Theresa May has reaffirmed London’s commitment to the Iran nuclear agreement and called on Washington to remain committed to the landmark deal alongside other European signatories. The British premier made the plea in a telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump on Tuesday. “The (prime minister) reaffirmed the UK’s strong commitment to […]

TEHRAN  – Donald Trump has challenged his secretary of state to “compare IQ tests” – if Rex Tillerson did call the president a “moron”, as reported. Trump told Forbes magazine: “I think its fake news. But if he did [say] that, I guess we’ll have to compare IQ tests. And I can tell you who […]

Austria’s permanent representative to the United Nations (UN) says the Iran nuclear deal will continue to stand even if the United States, which is a party to the agreement, withdraws from it. In an exclusive interview with Iran’s IRNA news agency, which was published on Tuesday, Jan Kickert denounced as “wrong and unjustifiable” a possible move […]