Iran rejected an accusation by Bahrain that it was involved in an oil pipeline bombing in the Sunni-ruled kingdom, accusing its rival of making "false claims". Bahrain said Wednesday that it had arrested four men suspected of attacking the Saudi Aramco pipeline on November 10,...
Israel named a new ambassador to Jordan on Thursday, the foreign ministry announced, bringing to an end a months-long spat sparked by a deadly shooting. The foreign ministry named Amir Weissbrod as the new ambassador, the first since the incident at the Israeli embassy in Amman...
MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia sold around $15 billion worth of weapons in 2017, maintaining a similar level of sales to the previous year, the country's agency responsible for military exports Rosoboronexport said on Wednesday. "In 2017 Rosoboronexport signed contracts worth approximately...
The United Nations launched an appeal Wednesday for $17 million to rebuild essential health facilities for children in Iraq after a devastating three-year battle to expel Daesh (ISIS). The U.N. children's fund, UNICEF, said next week's reconstruction conference for Iraq to be staged in...
