President Donald Trump said on Monday the US has had good and productive conversations with Iran and he will order the military to postpone any military strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for five days. Trump’s move followed a threat by Iran to attack Israel’s...

Seven people have been killed in a helicopter crash in Qatar’s territorial waters on Sunday including four Qatari military personnel and three Turkish nationals, the Ministry of Defense said. The ministry identified the deceased as Captain (Pilot) Mubarak Salem Daway al-Marri, Captain...

Israel’s military has been ordered to destroy all bridges over Lebanon’s Litani River and to step up the demolition of Lebanese homes near the Israeli border, the country’s defense minister said on Sunday. The military struck a bridge in south Lebanon, AFP reported, after a warning was...

Critical infrastructure and energy facilities in the Middle East could be “irreversibly destroyed” should Iranian power plants be targeted, Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said in comments posted on X on Sunday. Qalibaf said regional infrastructure would become “legitimate...

President Donald Trump assailed NATO allies on Friday over their lack of support for the US-Israel war against Iran, calling the longtime US allies “cowards.” “Without the U.S.A., NATO IS A PAPER TIGER!” Trump said in a social media post. Trump has been calling for major US allies and...

Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei on Friday said the enemies of the Islamic republic were being defeated in the war against the US and Israel in a written message for the Persian New Year, Nowruz. “At the moment, due to the particular unity that has been created between you our...

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Tuesday that senior Iranian officials, including Ali Larijani, were killed in Israeli airstrikes carried out overnight. In a video statement reported by AFP, Katz said he had been informed by the military chief of staff that Larijani, secretary of...

Tehran welcomes any initiative that leads to a complete end to the war, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Sunday, adding that diplomacy remains in place with Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman and neighboring countries. The top diplomat said that Iran was ready to form an investigative...

Legal and financial circles in Damascus are awaiting the anticipated decision from the First Sharia Court regarding the appointment of a "representative for an absentee" to manage the assets and businesses of businessman Hashem Anwar al-Aqqad. The significance of this decision stems from...

In stark contrast to the behavior of most international companies, the experience of Chinese companies operating in Syria's oil sector stands out as an exceptional case. While global and regional companies declared force majeure one after another as oil fields fell out of the Assad regime's...

In a highly sensitive technical analysis, expert Dilshad Othman revealed that the "Sham Cash" application has moved to a new domain, shamcash[.]sy. Following its recent shutdown, this move was more than just a technical change; it exposed security vulnerabilities related to the management of...

Saudi Arabia said Monday evening that its air defenses had intercepted and destroyed 12 drones targeting an oilfield in the country’s south. A Defense Ministry statement said the drones were shot down in Rub' al-Khali (Empty Desert Quarter) as they targeted the Shaybah oilfield in southern...

Israeli strikes on Lebanon have killed 394 people in the past week, including 83 children and 42 women, the country’s health minister said Sunday. Rakan Nassereddine also said at a press conference that nine rescue workers were among the dead, condemning attacks on medical teams and...

Donald Trump disregarded threats made by Iranian top national security official, Ali Larijani, who on Saturday said that “Trump must pay” for the United States strikes on Iran. “I have no idea what he is talking about, who he is. I couldn’t care less,” Trump said in an interview with CBS...

The US Central Command denied on Saturday that any US service members had been taken hostage or captured by Iran. In a post on X, Iranian security chief Ali Larijani said: “It has been reported to me that several American soldiers have been taken prisoner.” It has been...

The clerical body that will choose Iran’s next supreme leader, succeeding the slain Ali Khamenei, has more or less reached a majority consensus, Assembly of Experts member Mohammadmehdi Mirbaqeri said on Sunday. The Mehr news agency quoted him as saying “some obstacles” still...

US President Donald Trump said on Friday there would be no deal struck with Iran except “unconditional surrender,” a week after launching war with Israel against Tehran. “After that, and the selection of a GREAT & ACCEPTABLE Leader(s), we, and many of our wonderful and very brave allies...

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Thursday warned that the global economy is moving from a period of risk into a new era of uncertainty, where traditional forecasting models are increasingly inadequate. Speaking at the Global Risk Conference organized by Johns Hopkins...

Israeli strikes have hit the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, state-run media say, while 10 people are reported killed across the country as Israel’s deadline for Iranian officials to leave Lebanon expires amid a wider regional war. The Lebanese National News Agency (NNA)...

US President Donald Trump said Thursday he would approve of an offensive by Iranian Kurdish fighters into Iran in support of the US-Israeli war against Iran. “I think it’s wonderful that they want to do that, I’d be all for it,” Trump said in an interview with Reuters. When asked if the...