Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zangeneh on Thursday accused the United States of using oil as a “weapon” and said that balance in the oil market would be restored “soon”. “The United States is now using oil as a weapon; oil is not a weapon,” Zangeneh was quoted as saying by the Iranian oil...

Israeli forces rounded up 23 Palestinians in overnight raids carried out across the occupied West Bank, according to the military on Thursday. A military statement said the individuals had been arrested for “suspected involvement in popular terror activities", without elaborating about the...

Saudi Arabia's envoy to London described the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul last fall as a "stain" for the kingdom. "What happened in Istanbul almost a year ago, was a stain on Saudi Arabia, stain on our culture, our people, our...

The United Arab Emirates followed Saudi Arabia Thursday in joining a US-led force to protect Gulf shipping as tensions with Iran soared following twin attacks on key Saudi oil facilities. The United States has pushed for the creation of the International Maritime Security Construct to...

Interpol said Thursday it has detected more than a dozen suspected foreign terrorist fighters travelling across the Mediterranean during one of its coordinated maritime border operations. Out of 31 active investigative leads, "more than 12 of these linked to the movement of terror...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on his main challenger Benny Gantz Thursday to form a unity government together, a major development after deadlocked election results put his long tenure in office at risk. Netanyahu, in a video message, said he preferred to form a...

Russian police on Thursday said they had detained a Siberian shaman walking to Moscow on a mission to drive out President Vladimir Putin who he describes as a "demon". Police in the eastern Siberian region of Buryatia said they had detained the shaman, Alexander Gabyshev, on a highway near...

Iran's Revolutionary Guards' commander said Thursday the country is "so powerful" that it is "falsely" accused of being behind any regional incident, days after attacks on Saudi oil installations, Fars news agency reported. All paths are closed to Iran's enemies seeking to infiltrate the...

Britain’s Supreme Court will hear a third and final day of legal arguments on Thursday over whether Prime Minister Boris Johnson acted unlawfully when he suspended parliament in the run-up to Brexit. If Johnson loses, he may be compelled to recall parliament earlier than scheduled, giving...

 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized on Wednesday for wearing brown face make-up in 2001 after an embarrassing picture emerged less than five weeks before an election in which he faces a tough fight. The image of a 29-year-old Trudeau with his face in dark make-up is a...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the United States supports Saudi Arabia’s “right to defend itself” and said Iran’s behavior would “not be tolerated” in a meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, according to a statement on his official Twitter account on Thursday. Pompeo...

An early morning suicide truck bombing killed at least 20 people in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, an official confirmed. The massive bombing hitting the main public hospital in the Zabul province also left more than 90 others injured, Atta Jan Haq, the chairman of the provincial...

The U.N. Security Council is facing rival resolutions calling for a cease-fire in Syria's last rebel stronghold in Idlib, "to avoid a further deterioration of the already catastrophic humanitarian situation." Germany, Belgium and Kuwait finalized their text Wednesday afternoon and called...

More than eight years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a Japanese court will rule Thursday on the only criminal prosecution stemming from the worst nuclear accident in decades. Three former executives from Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the firm that operated the Fukushima...

Chinese tech giant Huawei launches its latest high-end smartphone in Munich on Thursday, the first that could be void of popular Google apps because of US sanctions. Observers are asking whether a phone without the Silicon Valley software that users have come to depend on can succeed, or...

Angel Di Maria was hailed as "exceptional" after scoring twice against his former club on Wednesday as Paris Saint-Germain shrugged off the absences of Neymar and Kylian Mbappe to crush Real Madrid 3-0. Di Maria beat Real goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois at his near post to put PSG ahead in the...

New weapons always have trouble, but especially when they weren't built with hotter climates in mind.  Russian missiles had problems operating in Syria. Why? Because parts of Syria are desert, and Russia lacked experience with designing weapons for such climates. That startling...

Saudi Arabian fighter jets participated in a recent operation targeting Iranian militia positions in the eastern Syrian city of Albu Kamal across from the Iraqi border, according to a report by Independent Arabia citing a western source. The source told the Saudi-funded news outlet that the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A Turkish court is due to hear a testimony of a Syrian child who witnessed the murder of his mother and grandmother by his father last April in Bursa city. The court seeks life imprisonment to Ali Hattab and his friend for murdering his wife, Hayat Mashael and his...

The governorate of Konya in central Turkey announced a suspected member of the Daesh terrorist group who shared a social media post threatening the city was captured. The unidentified suspect's post shows a view of the city from Aladdin Hill, with a hand holding a small paper with an...