Category: 1. Iran

Why it matters:

This move changes the legal…

ISTANBUL 

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council on Saturday said it will suspend cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) after the UN Security Council voted against permanently lifting…

“Two nights ago, we tested one of the country’s most advanced missiles, which had not been tested so far, and it was successful,” Mohsen Zanganeh told state broadcaster IRIB.

“I want to say that even under these circumstances, we are…

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The Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk went down around 9 p.m. PDT in rugged terrain about 15 miles southeast of Tacoma.

All four personnel aboard were members of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, 4th…

Why it matters:

Given the relatively high rate…

The outgoing chief of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Richard Moore, has confirmed that London maintained clandestine communications with the extremist group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) before the fall of Bashar al-Assad.

Speaking…

New Zealand’s former prime minister Jacinda Ardern has called on “those with power” to take action in the face of the ongoing “genocide in Gaza. 

“There is a path to stopping the genocide still happening daily before us: more countries…

Hardliners and ultra-hardliners in Tehran, who have long dismissed the 2015 nuclear deal (JCPOA) as a “total failure,” downplayed the impact of the UN’s decision. For them, renewed sanctions are little more than symbolic.

“In the past,…

Why it matters:

The Venezuelan government says that at least 14 people were killed in two fishing boats targeted by U.S. forces. The incident represents a grave escalation and demands international scrutiny.

The big…