TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran and the United States share a common enemy in the Islamic State militant group, but a deep-seated lack of trust has so far kept the longtime foes from publicly joining hands in a coalition to defeat the extremists./ Their inability to work together complicates efforts to ...
US Secretary of State John Kerry appears before the House Foreign Affairs Committee to testify on the administration's strategy for dealing with the Islamic State (IS) group on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on September 18, 2014 (AFP Photo/Mandel Ngan)/ United Nations (United States) (AFP) - ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials hope to prevent two diplomatic challenges with Iran from colliding next week: the Iranian nuclear program and the threat posed by the Islamic State militant group. Their basic dilemma is how to keep Iran from hardening its stance in the nuclear talks out of ...
United Nations (United States) (AFP) - US Secretary of State John Kerry brought together 35 countries at the UN Security Council on Friday to build support for Iraq's new government and the campaign to confront jihadists./ The crisis triggered by the so-called "Islamic State" group's seizure of ...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday that Iran had a role to play in a global coalition to tackle Islamic State militants who have seized swaths of Iraq and Syria and proclaimed a caliphate in the heart of the Middle East. "The coalition required to ...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council urged the international community Friday to expand support for the Iraqi government as it fights the Islamic State group and its allies, and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said there is a role for nearly every country in the world — including ...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday that there was a role for Iran to play in the global effort to tackle hardline Islamic State militants, who have seized swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria. "The coalition required to eliminate ISIL (Islamic State) is not only, or even ...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday that there was a role for Iran to play in the global effort to tackle hardline Islamic State militants, who have seized swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria. "The coalition required to eliminate ISIL (Islamic State) ...
Iraqi President Fouad Massoum says Iran should have been invited to an international conference to discuss the battle against ISIL Takfiri terrorists in Iraq./ Iran’s participation in the conference was necessary, said the Iraqi president in an interview with the London-based Highlighting Iran’s ...
The UN Security Council condemned Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants on Friday as Secretary of State John Kerry invited Iran to play a helpful role in arresting the group’s momentum in Iraq and Syria./ The 15-member council urged the world to expand support for the new Iraqi ...
Iraqi politician calls Iran key player in Middle East/ Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq chairman Ammar al-Hakim has called for close cooperation among world countries to counter-terrorism, saying that the US-led coalition against ISIL militants will fail without Iran, an Iranian news service ...
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says Tehran will not team up with the US in its so-called coalition against Takfiri ISIL militants./ Iran will not team up with the US against the ISIL because “we were not convinced that the United States government was serious” in its claim to ...
Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for International and Legal Affairs Abbas Araqchi addresses the United Nations Security Council on September 19, 2014./ A senior Iranian official has reiterated that fight against extremism, currently promoted by the Takfiri ISIL, entails regional cooperation./ ...
The US has formed the so-called coalition against the ISIL terrorist group to fool the minds of people around the world, an Iranian lawmaker says./ Casting doubt on the sincerity of the anti-ISIL coalition, Ismail Kowsari, who sits on the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of Iran’s ...
A brawl involving three people on a busy Los Angeles freeway was captured on video earlier this week and shared with KTLA. The incident occurred around 2 p.m. Tuesday on the 10 Freeway near Normandie Avenue in the Adams-Normandie neighborhood, according to “I was stuck in traffic and came upon a ...
Former film producer Harvey Weinstein appears in court in Los Angeles, Oct. 4 2022. (Etienne Laurent/Pool Photo via AP, File)/ NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s highest court on Thursday overturned ’s 2020 rape conviction, finding the judge at the landmark trial prejudiced the ex-movie mogul with ...
In interviews with investigators last year, former aides and national security officials who were close to Trump in the White House described a president who could erupt in anger when presented with intelligence he didn't want to hear, who routinely reviewed and stored classified information in ...
Bettersten Wade speaks to the attendees of her son Dexter Wade's funeral service in Jackson, Miss. Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. Looking on are the Rev. Al Sharpton, right, who delivered the eulogy, civil rights attorney Ben Crump, background, and one of her son's daughters, Jaselyn Thomas. Bettersten ...
A mother will search anywhere for her missing child. And while she has the strength, she will never stop./ For four days Kareema Elras has moved through the noise, dust and overpowering stench of the mass graves at Nasser hospital./ She is the mother of 21-year-old Ahmed, who was killed on 25 ...
This undated photo provided by University of Wisconsin Marketing & Communications, shows UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow. The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Interim Chancellor Betsy Morgan has started the process in late March 2024, to strip Gow, the former chancellor who was fired over his ...
Satellite images show two new tent encampments in southern Gaza as reports suggest Israel's military is preparing for an offensive in the city of Rafah./ Rafah, by the border with Egypt, is the only city in Gaza it has not yet entered. Well over a million people have been sheltering there for ...
Activists of Jammu and Kashmir Dogra Front shout slogans against Chinese President Xi Jinping next to a banner showing the logos of TikTok and other Chinese apps banned in India during a protest in Jammu, India, July 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Channi Anand, File)/ NEW DELHI (AP) — The hugely popular ...
More than six months into the devastating Gaza war, its impact on the Israeli and Palestinian economies has been huge./ Nearly all economic activity in Gaza has been wiped out and the World Bank says the war has also hit Palestinian businesses in the occupied West Bank hard./ As Israelis mark ...
Megan Thee Stallion arrives at the Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, May 15, 2022, in Las Vegas. A photographer who worked for the hip-hop star said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday, April 23, 2024, that he was forced to watch her have sex, was unfairly fired soon after and was ...