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(Reuters) - Iran on Tuesday rejected as "unacceptable" a demand by U.S. President Barack Obama that Tehran freeze its sensitive nuclear activities for at least 10 years, the semi-official Fars news agency reported. "Obama’s stance ... is expressed in unacceptable and threatening...
Egypt's Administrative Court issued a ruling on Tuesday that effectively halts the March/April parliamentary election process, judicial sources said. The state-run Al Ahram news portal confirmed the Administrative Court's ruling. "The Administrative Court ruled ... halting...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- An explosive device detonated near a military car in the Old City of Damascus killed Syrian regime army Brigadier Ali Darwish with his two companions on Monday. Ahrar al-Sham Islamic movement said its fighters who had carried out the...
A Lebanese soldier and a wanted militant were killed in an exchange of gunfire in northern Lebanon on Tuesday, security sources and a medic said. The militant, Abdulrahman Tamar, was wanted in connection with several days of fighting with the army last October in the...
Three Ukrainian servicemen were killed and nine were wounded in the last 24 hours in the country's east where government troops are fighting with pro-Russian rebels, a Ukrainian military source told Reuters on Tuesday. The military source, speaking on the condition of...
(Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday he hopes the United States will open an embassy in Cuba by the time of a Western Hemisphere summit in Panama in mid-April. In an interview with Reuters, Obama also cautioned that it will take more time to fully establish...
(Reuters) - Iran must commit to a verifiable freeze of at least 10 years on sensitive nuclear activity for a landmark atomic deal to be reached, but the odds are still against sealing a final agreement, U.S. President Barack Obama told Reuters on Monday. Interviewed at the...
At least seven people were killed and 33 others were wounded Monday in several bomb attacks across Baghdad, security sources said. Officials said two people were killed and six others were injured after an explosion near a football field in al-Husayniyah...
(Zaman Al Wasl- Video)- Zaman al-Wasl reporter took a tour with Syrian rebels under ground as they dig a new tunnel to blow up regime’s military strongholds. According to the reporter, the current tunnel is 500 meters length; rebels need to dig more...
(Anadolu Agency)- The spokesperson for the Revolutionary Forces in Aleppo, Yasser Hajj, accused UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura of working in the interests of Bashar al-Assad's regime. Hajj gave an exclusive interview to The Anadolu...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud have agreed on the need to increase support for the opposition in Syria. The two leaders met on Monday at the royal palace in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh and discussed...
(Reuters) - Iran monitored 8 million Facebook accounts with new software and will watch other social media sites for content that contravenes the Islamic Republic's moral codes, state television reported on Monday. The Center...
(Reuters) - High-level discussions are under way to more closely involve Arab states in the work of the Middle East Quartet and reinvigorate the four-member group that has been seeking to mediate in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since 2002. Rather than formally expanding the...
(Reuters) - Khalifa Haftar, one of the most divisive figures in post-revolutionary Libya , was appointed army commander for the country's internationally recognized government on Monday in a move that could complicate U.N. talks to end the conflict. Four years after Muammar...
The train-and-equip program for Syrian opposition forces will be held in Turkey's central Anatolia province of Kırıkkale, the national defense minister said on Monday. İsmet Yilmaz was answering reporters' questions in Ankara before attending the ruling Justice and Development Party's...
An explosive charge went off on Monday outside a court complex in downtown Cairo – for which a shadowy group has claimed responsibility – amid conflicting reports of casualties. A group calling itself "The Revolutionary Punishment" said on Twitter that its members had planted an...
The Egyptian government said Monday that 33,247 Egyptians had returned home from next-door Libya since Feb. 16. In statements to Egyptian state television, Al-Anani Hammouda, security chief in Egypt's Matrouh province, said that some 787 Egyptians had returned home via the Salloum...
(Zaman Al Wasl )- The Shiite villages of Homs province have formed a new militia this week with main mission to attack neighboring Sunni villages in the northern countryside, activists said. Mahmoud al- Lawz , media activist, said at least 6 Shiite...
The United States and Israel showed signs of seeking to defuse tensions on Sunday ahead of a speech in Washington by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he will warn against a possible nuclear deal with Iran. Policy differences over the negotiations...
