Syria’s foreign minister blamed Israel for mysterious attacks over more than a year targeting oil tankers heading to Syria, saying they violate international law and will not go unpunished. Faisal Mekdad told Lebanon-based Al-Mayadeen TV in an interview aired late Sunday that oil...

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif urged the US administration on Monday to lift current sanctions against Iran which were imposed under former US President Donald Trump. In response to a recent statement by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken regarding US sanctions on Iran, Zarif said on...

Iraqi President Barham Salih said on Sunday that a total of $150 billion have been smuggled outside Iraq since 2003. "Government and international statistics and data estimate that Iraq’s financial revenues from oil since 2003 are close to $1 trillion," Salih said in a televised...

Over 1.65 billion coronavirus vaccine shots have been given worldwide, figures compiled by Our World in Data, an online portal, showed on Sunday. China was the most vaccinated country with 497.27 million jabs, according to the data, followed by the US with almost 284 million....