A senior Syrian official on Tuesday criticised the international community for excluding Damascus from recent talks on building a coalition to tackle the Islamic State group. Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Muqdad, quoted by state news agency SANA, expressed "astonishment" that Syria was not ...
Top from left, Jordanian Foreign Minister, Sheikh Sabah Khaled al Hamad, Foreign Minister of United Arab Emirats sheik Abdullah Bin Zayed al Nahyan, unidentified, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo, Norwegian Foreign Borge Brendem, front row from left, Iraqi President Fouad ...
US warplanes carried out their first air strike on the Islamic State near Baghdad, as world diplomats pledged to support Iraq in its fight against the militants./ The United States early last month began air strikes against IS positions in northern Iraq, but Monday's announcement that the ...
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, speaks on state-run TV, in a picture released by his office./ President Obama’s effort to build broad international support to destroy the Islamic State erupted Monday in a long-distance dispute between the United States and Iran's Ayatollah Ali ...
Iraq's foreign minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari gives a press conference as part of the International Conference on Peace and Security in Iraq, September 15, 2014, in Paris (AFP Photo/Thomas Samson)/ Paris (AFP) - Iraq's foreign minister on Monday voiced "regret" that Iran was not invited to an ...
PARIS/DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader said on Monday he had personally rejected an offer from the United States for talks to fight Islamic State, an apparent blow to Washington's efforts to build a military coalition to fight militants in both Iraq and Syria. World powers meeting in ...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry refused be drawn into a "back and forth" with Iran on Monday following Tehran’s assertion that it had rebuffed a U.S. request to coordinate a response to the Islamic State jihadist group. "I’m not going to get into a back and forth. I don’t want to do that. I ...
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks live on television after casting his ballot in the Iranian presidential election in Tehran June 12, 2009./ (Reuters) - Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday he had vetoed a U.S. invitation to cooperate in fighting Islamic ...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry leaves after a family photo at the International Conference on Peace and Security in Iraq, at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris September 15, 2014./ (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry refused be drawn into a "back and forth" with Iran on Monday following ...
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (L) meets with Shiite Grand Ayatollah Bashir al-Najafi during a visit in the holy city of Najaf on August 25, 2014, during the minister's two-day visit to Iraq./ - Diplomats from around the world sought a global strategy to fight extremists Monday, ...
The world's top diplomats pledged Monday to support Iraq in its fight against Islamic State militants by "any means necessary", including "appropriate military assistance", as leaders stressed the urgency of the crisis./ Representatives from around 30 countries and international organisations, ...
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says he has rejected Obama administration requests for help in fighting against Islamic State militants in Iraq. U.S. officials say there is no military coordination with Iran but Washington is open to future talks on fighting the Islamic State. ...
Islamic State militants parade a tank through a street in the Syrian city of Raqa, as the CIA recently estimated that IS has up to 31,500 fighters (AFP Photo/)/ Tehran (AFP) - Tehran ridiculed an international conference on the jihadist threat that opened in Paris on Monday, insisting the ...
French President Francois Hollande called on Monday for united international action to tackle the threat from Islamic State militants as he opened a conference on Iraq bringing together members of a U.S.-led coalition. The United States this week unveiled an outline plan to fight the Islamist ...
PARIS (AP) — Reconnaissance planes at the ready, France's president said there was "no time to lose" in the global push to combat extremists from the Islamic State group, minus the two countries who share most of Iraq's borders./ With memories of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq still fresh, the U ...
The region is experiencing the worst flooding in 50 years./ (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry refused be drawn into a "back and forth" with Iran on Monday following Tehran's assertion that it had rebuffed a U.S. request to coordinate a response to the Islamic State jihadist group. ...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry refused be drawn into a "back and forth" with Iran on Monday following Tehran's assertion that it had rebuffed a U.S. request to coordinate a response to the Islamic State jihadist group. "I'm not going to get into a back and forth. I don't want to do that. I ...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday it was "not appropriate" for Iran to join talks on confronting Islamic State militants, as he appeared to play down how fast countries can commit to force or other steps in an emerging coalition. Kerry met Turkish leaders to try to secure backing ...
PARIS/DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader said on Monday he had personally rejected an offer from the United States for talks to fight Islamic State, an apparent blow to Washington's efforts to build a military coalition to fight militants in both Iraq and Syria. World powers meeting in ...
PARIS (AP) — Newly outraged by the beheading of yet another Western hostage, diplomats from around the world are in Paris pressing for a coherent global strategy to combat extremists from the Islamic State group — minus two of the main players and without any ground troops — in a conflict that ...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says he refuses to get into a "back and forth" with Iran about whether U.S. officials asked Iran to help fight against Islamic State (IS) militants. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said earlier on September 15 that Tehran had rejected a request by ...
In this photo released by the official website of the Iranian supreme leader's office, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, waves during a meeting in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. Iran's supreme leader underwent prostate surgery on Monday at a government hospital in Tehran, state media ...
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday dismissed as hollow and self-serving U.S. efforts to build a coalition against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria./ Iran says it backs the Syrian and Iraqi governments in their fight against the insurgents, but Tehran has not been ...
Iraq urges quick response to tackle Islamic State * Iran not attending after certain Arab states object * France sends fighter jets for reconnaissance mission over Iraq (Releads with Hollande opening conference, new quotes and details) PARIS, Sept 15 (Reuters) - French President Francois ...
Several Arab countries have offered to join the United States in air strikes against Islamic State targets, U.S. officials said on Sunday, indicating a possible widening of the air campaign against militants who have seized parts of Iraq and Syria. The officials declined to identify which ...
PARIS (AP) — As more than two dozen nations pledged Monday to help Iraq fight the Islamic State militants, the United States said it was open to talking to Iran about a role in resolving the crisis, despite Washington's earlier opposition to Tehran even attending the conference. U.S. Secretary ...
An informed source at Iran’s Foreign Ministry has dismissed contradictory remarks by Bahraini Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa about the necessity to fight the Takfiri ISIL militants./ “Contradictory remarks by certain politicians in the [Middle East] region stem ...
IRGC Commander Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari said that Tehran doubts Washington’s intentions in its fight against ISIL militant group. “The U.S. is now disappointed at ISIL and other militant groups’ performance so it is forming the international coalition to fight the group,” he said, ...
Iran’s ambassador to Azerbaijan has questioned Washington’s sincerity about launching a military coalition against the Takfiri ISIL terrorist group, saying such a coalition is only meant to deceive world’s public opinion./ In an interview with Trend news agency on Tuesday, Mohsen Pak-Ayeen said ...
The chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the US and its allies will regret any military operation in Syria./ “The Islamic Republic of Iran’s policy is to support Syria and this US action is from a bullying position and is condemned and if it does so it will regret it,” ...
Alaeddin Boroujerdi, the chairman of the National Security and Foreign Policy of the Iranian Majlis, (R) meets Slovak Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Miroslav Lajcak in Tehran on September 15, 2014./ A senior Iranian lawmaker says the US formed the so-called international ...
An Iranian Foreign Ministry official says conflict-stricken Syria and Iraq are able to resolve their own crises without any foreign interference as Takfiri ISIL militants continue to wreak havoc on both countries./ “The Islamic Republic of Iran believes that the wise and courageous nations of ...
The United States said on Monday it was opposed to military cooperation with Iran in Iraq but was open to further talks, hours after Tehran said it had rejected US overtures to help in the fight against Islamist militants./ “We are not and will not coordinate militarily... There may be another ...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (R) talks with Slovak Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Miroslav Lajcak in Tehran on September 15, 2014./ Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has cast doubt on the sincerity of the so-called coalition to fight terrorism, saying it is a “joke” ...
Iraq's Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari speaks at a press conference in Paris on the sidelines of the International Conference on Peace and Security in Iraq, September 15, 2014./ Iraq's Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari says he "regrets" that Iran has not been invited to an international ...
Iran’s Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani-Fazli says the Islamic Republic will never trust the US-led so-called international coalition to tackle the Takfiri ISIL militants./ Addressing reporters on Monday, Rahmani-Fazli said Iran would never trust the Americans in the fight against ISIL ...
Deputy Foreign Minister in Arab and African Affairs said Iran would not wait for any international coalition to fight against terrorism and will act upon its responsibilities and in the framework of international regulations, IRNA reported. According to the report of Foreign Ministry Media ...
Representatives from Iran and the P5+1 group – Russia, China, France, Britain, the US and Germany - hold nuclear talks (file photo)/ A senior Iranian lawmaker says any possible failure of talks between Iran and six world powers over Tehran’s nuclear energy program would be the result of US ...
A senior Iranian official has underlined the significance of close consultation between regional and international governments for the resolution of problems in the Middle East region. Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks in a ...
A senior Iranian official says the Islamic Republic is committed to fighting terrorism within the framework of international regulations./ "For fighting terrorism, the Islamic Republic of Iran will not wait for any international coalition and it will act based on its international responsibility ...
A UN report into the Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA has concluded it must do more to improve its neutrality, staff vetting and transparency./ But the independent review also said that Israel had failed to back up a claim that many of the agency's staff belonged to terror groups./ Some of ...
An Uber driver from Southern California is looking to spread the word on the potential risks associated with being a rideshare driver after he was violently assaulted by a passenger over the weekend. that he comes to the L.A. area from his home in the Antelope Valley on the weekends since there ...
GOOSE CREEK, S.C. (AP) — Out of air and pinned by an alligator to the bottom of the Cooper River in South Carolina, Will Georgitis decided his only chance to survive might be to lose his arm. The alligator had fixed his jaws around Georgitis' arm and after he tried to escape by stabbing it with ...
A premature baby was saved when doctors performed an emergency caesarean in Rafah, after the city was hit by Israeli air strikes on Saturday night. Her mother, Sabreen, could not be saved, and died along with the baby's father and sister. Medics said the baby was born in respiratory distress and ...
which sparked settler rampage/ A Palestinian man has been arrested over the murder of a 14-year-old Israeli boy, whose disappearance from an outpost in the occupied West Bank sparked a deadly rampage by settlers./ Benjamin Achimeir went missing on 12 April after going to herd sheep near the ...
Trump Organization civil trial in New York State Supreme Court in New York/ tried to convince a judge on Monday that the insurer that provided the former U.S. president with a $175 million bond in his New York civil fraud case was empowered and strong enough to issue the guarantee. The bond ...
North Korean illustrators and graphic designers appear to have helped produce work for US animation studios unbeknownst to those companies, suggesting that unreleased episodes of a few popular American cartoons could include work from one of the most closed-off economies in the world. The ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Terry Anderson, the globe-trotting Associated Press correspondent who became one of America’s longest-held hostages after he was snatched from a street in war-torn Lebanon in 1985 and held for nearly seven years, has died at 76. Anderson, who chronicled his abduction and ...
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