A commander in Iran's Revolutionary Guards has said the country would use missiles to defend itself from its "enemies". It followed hostile rhetoric from US President Donald Trump, after he said on Twitter that Iran was "playing with fire" and announced fresh sanctions on the country. Head of...
(Sky News)- A four-month-old baby from Iran stopped from entering the US for life-saving heart surgery under Donald Trump's travel ban is to be allowed in for the urgent operation. The granting of permission for Fatemeh Reshad and her family to travel to America for the emergency procedure...
Air France said on Saturday it had reopened U.S.-bound flights to passengers affected by President Donald Trump's travel ban on nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries, after the executive order was temporarily suspended by a federal court. "Starting today we are implementing this...
Art lovers returned to the Louvre in Paris on Saturday, 24 hours after a soldier shot a machete-wielding attacker at the museum, believed to be an Egyptian who entered the country a week ago. The incident on Friday thrust security and the terror threat back into the limelight three months...
An alliance of U.S.-backed militias said it had started a new phase of its campaign against the Islamic State-held city of Raqqa on Saturday, aiming to complete its encirclement and sever the road to militant strongholds in Deir al-Zor province. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said...
(The Telegraph)- Receipts from taxi rides, ledgers listing internet usage for the privileged few and random logbooks documenting an ever tighter economy are just some of the documents that Islamic State militants left behind when they fled eastern Mosul in the face of advancing Iraqi forces....
Turkey hit 59 ISIS targets and killed 51 militants in northern Syria as part of its ongoing incursion, the Turkish military said on Saturday. Turkish forces have surrounded the ISIS-controlled town of al-Bab for weeks as part of an operation that has been going on for more than five months....
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia's warplanes killed 6 rebel fighters on Friday in air strikes on the newly-formed Haya't Tahrih al-Sham alliance in Idlib province, local reporter said. The aerial bombing hit a bastion for the formerly known as Nusra Front in Sarmin town, killing and wounding dozen....
(TRT World)- Syrians gathered at an Aleppo stadium to watch a live football match on Saturday, the first in nearly six years of war. The Al-Ittihad club beat Al-Hurriya 2-1 in their first match after war divided the northern city into regime-held west and rebel-controlled east....
Iran is to deploy missiles for a Revolutionary Guards exercise Saturday in a show of defiance a day after the United States imposed sanctions over a ballistic missile test launch last weekend. The Guards' Sepahnews website said the maneuvers in the northeastern province of Semnan were aimed...
A Seattle federal judge on Friday put a nationwide block on U.S. President Donald Trump's week-old executive order that had temporarily barred refugees and nationals from seven countries from entering the United States. The judge's temporary restraining order represents a major setback for...
The chief executive of Phillips 66 said on Friday he expects the Dakota Access Pipeline to start operations in the second quarter, even though the project - which has sparked protests by Native Americans and environmentalists - is still in the midst of legal battles and a U.S. regulatory review....
Islamic State militants in Iraq are steadily losing ground. Iraqi forces successfully recaptured the eastern side of Mosul from the militants, forcing the group from Mosul University and advancing to the east bank of the Tigris River which divides the city in two. All of Mosul's bridges...
In an attack on Germany, U.S. President Donald Trump’s top trade adviser said the euro was “grossly undervalued,” a charge which may ring true for the German economy but not for the 19-member currency zone as a whole. The adviser, Peter Navarro, said Germany, the eurozone’s economic powerhouse,...
US Defense Secretary James Mattis said Saturday that Iran was the world's biggest state sponsor of terrorism, as President Donald Trump slapped fresh sanctions on the country's weapons procurement network. "As far as Iran goes, this is the single biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the...
The Trump administration on Friday imposed sanctions on 25 individuals and entities, ratcheting up pressure on Iran in what it said were just "initial steps" days after it had put Tehran "on notice" over a recent ballistic missile test-launch. "Iran has a choice to make. We are going to...
The head of the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday that safe zones would not work inside Syria for people fleeing the country's nearly six-year-old war. U.S. President Donald Trump said last week he would "absolutely do safe zones in Syria" for refugees escaping violence and that...
(Washington Post)- President Trump is “foolish” and has ignited the “flame of jihad” with a raid in Yemen in which civilians were killed, al-Qaeda said Friday in its first official comments on the new U.S. administration. That the raid came only days after Trump’s vow to eradicate...
United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk on Friday called on UN Security Council and UN General Assembly to stop illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory. Lynk urged "effective diplomatic and political measures to ensure Israeli compliance with Security...
For the tenth day in a row, Syrian armed opposition groups have resisted attempts by the Assad regime and allied militias to advance on Daraa’s northern countryside. Clashes between the two sides remain ongoing on the outskirts of Daraa’s Al-Waredat village. Located on the eastern side of the...
