President Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday that the United States would fail with its "warmongering" and warned that Iran was ready to further reduce its nuclear commitments in response. "The Americans must understand that bellicosity and warmongering don't work in their favour. Both... must...

Israeli aircraft struck in Gaza on Wednesday hours after rockets from the Palestinian enclave triggered sirens that forced Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu off the stage at an election rally in Israel. The Israeli military said 15 targets were hit, including a weapons manufacturing...

Three Australian citizens have been detained in Iran, the Australian government said on Wednesday, adding that it was helping the families of the three but gave no further details. The brief statement from Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade came after the British newspaper...

 Lebanon’s president said he hopes the United States will resume mediation efforts to resolve a land and sea border dispute with Israel, after the man who had been leading them changed jobs. President Michel Aoun made the comments, reported in state news agency NNA, after meeting the...

The United States on Tuesday announced sanctions on a “wide range of terrorists and their supporters,” including the Palestinian group Hamas and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, on the eve of the 18th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. The targets include 15 leaders, individuals...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a deeply controversial pledge Tuesday to annex the Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank if re-elected in September 17 polls. "There is one place where we can apply Israeli sovereignty immediately after the elections," Netanyahu said in a...

The United States said Tuesday it was unacceptable that Iran was not fully cooperating with the International Atomic Energy Agency's investigation of its nuclear programme, but repeated it remained open to talks with Tehran on a "comprehensive deal". "Any indication that Iran is providing...

More than 30 pilgrims died and dozens were injured Tuesday in a stampede at a major shrine in the Iraqi city of Karbala on the Shiite holy day of Ashura. It is Iraq's deadliest stampede in recent history during Ashura, whose commemorative marches had previously been targeted by Sunni...

 Hezbollah’s leader said on Tuesday his Iran-backed movement had shot down an Israeli drone in Lebanon for the first time to strengthen deterrence against attack by arch-foe Israel. On Monday, Hezbollah said it downed and took possession of an Israeli drone in south Lebanon after a...

Iraqi security forces killed 15 Deash terrorists Tuesday in north central Saladin province of Iraq. Lieut. Numan al-Jouburi told Anadolu Agency clashes broke out in city’s north and Iraqi security personnel was supported with airstrikes. He said in addition to the terrorists who were...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday accused Iran of having a previously undisclosed site aimed at developing nuclear weapons that it destroyed. Iran destroyed the site located near the city of Abadeh, south of Isfahan, sometime between late June and late July after realising...

In Gaza alone, Israeli forces have injured 30 journalists since March 22, a UN rights body said on Monday. "30 journalists covering the protests were injured" by the Israeli army, UN Human Rights High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet said in a statement, referring to the protests held along...

His people’s link to the land goes back to biblical times, says the comics illustrator. His neighbor, a farmer, says the land belonged to his ancestors and has been stolen. One is an Israeli settler, the other a Palestinian living across the road. Israel’s settlements in the occupied West...

Iran has begun installing more advanced centrifuges and is moving towards enriching uranium with them even though that is forbidden under its nuclear deal with major powers, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday. The 2015 deal only lets Iran produce enriched uranium with just...

A Palestinian detainee held in Israel died on Sunday due to medical negligence, according to a local NGO. "Bassam al-Saysh, 47, died in the Israeli hospital of Assaf Harofeh after he was transferred from Israeli prison due to his medical condition," the Palestinian Prisoner Society said in...

Lebanon’s Hezbollah downed an Israeli unmanned aircraft outside the southern town of Ramyah near the border with Israel, the movement’s Al-Manar TV said early on Monday. The Israeli drone is now in the hands of Hezbollah’s fighters, the Iran-backed group said in a statement. Hezbollah...

Ali Hatoum, former official in the powerful Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah, was found dead in his flat in a Beirut neighborhood, the state-run Lebanese news agency said on Sunday. Security forces immediately opened an investigation and were awaiting the arrival of a forensic...

The United States will continue to impose sanctions on whoever purchases Iran’s oil or conducts business with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and no oil waivers will be re-issued, a U.S. official said on Sunday. Iran’s crude oil exports were slashed by more than 80% due to re-imposed sanctions...

Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson said Sunday an Iranian oil tanker at the center of a dispute between Tehran and Western powers had reached its destination and sold its oil, state television reported. "The tanker has gone to its destination; the oil has been sold," spokesperson Abbas...

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Sunday Iran’s reduction of commitments under its 2015 nuclear deal were allowed under the accord, the semi-official Fars news agency reported. Zarif told the acting head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog IAEA, Cornel Feruta, that Iran was acting...