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Iran said on Monday new U.S. sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic's ballistic missile program were illegitimate because of Washington's arms sales in the Middle East. "The U.S. sanctions against Iran's ballistic missile program ... have no legal or moral legitimacy," foreign...
The head of the United Nations atomic watchdog Yukiya Amano arrived in Tehran Monday for talks with President Hassan Rouhani, two days after Iran's nuclear deal with world powers went into force. The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed late Saturday that Tehran had complied with its...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 7,000 people have fled regime major attack on rebel-held areas in southern countryside of Hama to the neighboring region of al-Houla, local revolutionary council said Sunday. Hundreds of displaced families of villages of Har Banafsheh, Talaf and Deir al-Faris...
Iran's release from sanctions testifies to its new relationship with the United States as it moves from pariah state to regional power, a status that could come at the cost of Saudi Arabia, Washington's chief Arab ally. Enemies and allies alike must adjust to Iran becoming an...
Israel bristled on Sunday at the lifting of international sanctions on Iran and vowed to flag up any violations of its arch-foe's nuclear restrictions while drawing on U.S. defense aid to prepare for a possible military face-off in the future. The International Atomic Energy...
The United States imposed sanctions on 11 companies and individuals for supplying Iran's ballistic missile program in a move delayed by over two weeks so as not to endanger this weekend's release of U.S. prisoners, sources familiar with the matter said. The U.S. Treasury...
An employee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) who was reportedly close to the organization’s negotiation team has been arrested on charges of "collaborating" with Israel, the Palestinian Ma'an news agency reported Sunday. Ma'an quoted an unnamed PLO official as saying that the...
Five people were killed and another 11 injured by airstrikes carried out by Russian warplanes on Sunday in Aleppo’s opposition-held Kallaseh district, according to local sources. Local civil defense officials told Anadolu Agency that the airstrikes had targeted residential parts of the...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hundreds of ISIS fighters are expected to be evacuated soon from besieged southern Damascus suburb due to a U.N.-brokered deal that was suspended late December 2015 after the killing of Islam Army's commander Zahran Alloush in Russian air strike. Zaman al-Wasl sources said the...
The death toll from Saturday's air strikes on the Syrian city of Raqqa, de facto capital of the Islamic State group, has risen to 40 civilians, including eight children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday. The group, which monitors the conflict in Syria through...
Islamic State militants kidnapped at least 400 civilians when they attacked government-held areas in the eastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor on Saturday, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday families of pro-government fighters were among...
Queen Rania of Jordan has hit out with total class at Charlie Hebdo’s Alan Kurdi cartoon . The drawing showed Alan, the drowned Syrian refugee whose death shook Europe out of inertia, as an adult chasing a woman. It was paired with a caption saying the two-year-old would have grown up...
(Washington Post)- When you are a major nuclear power and you want to make a secretive deployment to a faraway ally, what is the first thing you do? Draw up the terms, apparently, and sign a contract. That’s what the Kremlin did with Syria in August, according to an unusual document...
International sanctions on Iran have been lifted after a watchdog confirmed it had complied with a deal designed to prevent it developing nuclear weapons. The EU foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, said the deal would contribute to improved regional and international peace and...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 civilians have been killed on Saturday in Russian air strikes on rebel-held Aleppo, activists said. Seven people were killed in al-Sakhour neighborhood when Russian warplanes fired vacuum missile into the local marketplace, Zaman al-Wasl reporter said. 8 more...
The United States and its allies targeted Islamic State with 18 strikes in Iraq and 11 in Syria on Friday, the U.S. military said. Eight of the strikes in Iraq hit Islamic State tactical units and five command and control nodes near Mosul, a statement issues on Saturday said....
Unverified reports say 15 to 20 people died of starvation in the Syrian city of Deir al-Zor last year, the United Nations said on Saturday, warning that 200,000 residents there face a severe food shortage and sharply deteriorating conditions. Western parts of the city have been...
The United Nations' refugee agency will seek additional resources for Turkey, the world's largest host of refugees, and push for more resettlement, its head said on Saturday, as the civil war in Syria is set to enter its sixth year. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees...
Syrian regime is launching a major assault in the northern province of Aleppo, seeking in part to cut off rebel access to Aleppo city, a security source told AFP. "Through its operations, the army is trying to broaden its security zone around the city," and prevent the rebels from...
Iran has released four prisoners with dual Iranian-U.S. nationality, the Tehran public prosecutor was quoted as saying on Saturday, without giving further details. "In line with orders from the Supreme National Security Council and in the national interest, four Iranian dual...
