Category: 3. Middle East

Syria’s Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani raised his country’s new flag at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Friday, in what he called a “historic” moment.

Shaibani “raises the new Syrian flag in front of the United Nations building…

US President Donald Trump yesterday signed an executive order aimed at ActBlue, the Democratic Party’s main online fundraising platform to crack down on supposed foreign contributions to elections.

Trump directed…

World leaders began arriving in Rome on Friday before Pope Francis’s weekend burial, a ceremony that, although more low-key than usual, is still set to be a historic event.

Pope Francis, who died on Monday from heart failure following a stroke…

Moscow and Tehran have reached a deal on 55 billion cubic metres (bcm) of Russian gas supplies a year, though prices are yet to be agreed, while Russia also pledged to fund construction of a new nuclear power plant in…

Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court yesterday ordered a lower panel to reconsider Israel’s objections to the court’s jurisdiction over arrest warrants issued against Israeli leaders for their…

Israel received three more F-35 fighter jets on Thursday, bringing its total fleet of the advanced stealth aircraft to 45, the Israeli army announced on Friday.

According to Avichay Adraee, spokesperson for the…

Tehran, Iran – Iran and the United States are expected to hold more nuclear negotiations mediated by Oman amid efforts to shape an agreement to avoid the US attacking Iran.

The Iranian delegation will arrive in Muscat on Friday evening in…

A drone strike, Friday, targeted the Atbara power station in northern Sudan, cutting off electricity to the River Nile and Red Sea states and sparking a large fire, according to Sudan’s electricity company.

“The…

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Firearms are the leading cause of death for US young people aged 18 to 25, surpassing drug poisoning and other causes.

After a gunman at Florida State University killed…