U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo waits for the start of a meeting of NATO foreign ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Friday, April 27, 2018. NATO is set on Friday to hold its last major meeting in its old headquarters, with talks focused on strained ties with Russia, a fresh peace ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed new "dramatic" intelligence Monday which he claimed shows Iran is "brazenly lying" about its nuclear weapons program and shows the country is not complying with the vaunted nuclear deal it signed in 2015./ The information was obtained within the ...
The hawkish rhetoric marked the end of his first trip abroad as America's chief diplomat/ (TEL AVIV, Israel) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday ratcheted up the Trump administration’s rhetoric against Iran and gave warm boosts of support to Israel and Saudi Arabia in their standoffs ...
BEIRUT (AP) — A missile attack on government outposts in northern Syria killed more than a dozen pro-government fighters, many of them Iranians, a war monitoring group and an Iranian news agency said Monday. The strikes came amid soaring tensions between regional archenemies Israel and Iran. ...
In this Sunday, April 29, 2018 file photo, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. left. is greeted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of a press conference at the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv. Israel's prime minister has scheduled a special prime-time statement to reveal what ...
The strike targeted Syrian and Iranian military positions; national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin reports from the Pentagon./ Suspected Israeli missile strikes shook Syria on Sunday with enough force to register as an earthquake, as blasts targeted two Iran-linked military bases and ...
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, meets with Alaeddin Boroujerdi, left, the head of Iran's parliamentary committee on national security and foreign policy, in Damascus, Syria, Monday, April 30, 2018. The meeting came as a ...
Missile strikes on central Syria killed 26 pro-regime fighters, most of them Iranians, a monitor said Monday, in a raid that bore the hallmarks of Tehran's archfoe Israel. The Syrian regime, which denounced a "fresh aggression" after the strikes, meanwhile continued to flush out armed groups ...
A car drives past a damaged mosque in the eastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor in this November 5, 2017 file photo (AFP Photo/STRINGER)/ Beirut (AFP) - Rare clashes broke out Sunday between Syrian regime forces and a US-backed alliance in the east of the country, killing six alliance fighters, the ...
Syrian regime forces advance towards the town of Douma, the last opposition holdout in Eastern Ghouta, on April 7, 2018 (AFP Photo/STRINGER)/ Beirut (AFP) - Missile strikes on central Syria killed 26 pro-regime fighters, most of them Iranians, a monitor said Monday, in a raid that bore the ...
Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon points at a photograph of what he claimed to be an Iranian drone launched from Syria that was equipped with an "offensive weapon" intended to be used against Israel, during a press briefing before a United Nations Security Council meeting ...
or scroll down to read more about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's remarks./ Secretary of Defense James Mattis would not say Monday whether Iran was in compliance with the Nuclear Agreement, citing the ongoing decision making process by President Trump. He did say that the deal ...
Washington's new chief diplomat was to meet Saudi and Israeli leaders on Sunday to rally coordinated opposition to Tehran and brief them on President Donald Trump's threat to end the Iran nuclear deal. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo touched down in Riyadh on Saturday shortly after Tehran-backed ...
Soldiers loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad forces in Damascus, Syria, on April 29, 2018. (Omar Sanadiki/Reuters)/ Suspected Israeli missile strikes hit two Iran-linked military bases in Syria, according to a monitoring group on Monday, sharpening regional tensions as rival forces wage ...
Map locating city of Deir Ezzor where clashes occurred between regime forces and those of the US-back alliance (AFP Photo/)/ Beirut (AFP) - Rare clashes broke out on Sunday between Syrian regime forces and a US-backed alliance in the east of the country, killing a total of 15 combatants, a war ...
issile strikes overnight in central Syria killed at least 26 pro-regime fighters, most of them Iranians, a monitor said Monday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the missiles struck a military base in the province of Hama late Sunday, in an assault it said bore the hallmarks of an ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Iran had lied about never having pursued nuclear weapons and had continued to preserve and expand its nuclear weapons knowledge even after signing a 2015 deal with global powers./ “Iran’s leaders repeatedly deny ever pursuing nuclear ...
President Trump signaled that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's news conference about Iran's nuclear program has helped prove that he has been right about his criticism of the Iranian nuclear deal. "I think if anything what’s happening today and what’s happened over the last little ...
Israeli leader makes case against 2015 deal as Trump faces May 12 deadline/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented what he called new evidence that Iran maintained a secret and comprehensive plan to build nuclear weapons but lied repeatedly about it, building a case against the 2015 ...
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, seen during a news conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Sunday, is urging easing economic sanctions against Qatar./ U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, seen during a news conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Sunday, is urging easing economic sanctions ...
Netanyahu met in Tel Aviv with new U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday and both spoke in strong terms about Iran./ TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will make a televised announcement on Monday evening (1700 GMT) in what his office said would be a ...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo lashed out at Iran during a rapid tour of Middle East allies on Sunday ahead of a crucial White House decision on whether to quit the nuclear deal with Tehran. After setting off on his first diplomatic trip only hours after being sworn in, Pompeo met with Saudi ...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will make a televised announcement Monday evening (1700 GMT) in what his office said would be a “significant development” regarding the nuclear agreement with Iran./ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly ...
Syrian troops on Sunday tightened the noose around a Palestinian refugee camp held by Islamic State militants in southern Damascus where hundreds of civilians face an uncertain future, state media, witnesses and residents said. Nearly two weeks into a campaign to capture the last area near the ...
Smoke rises from buildings in Yarmuk, a Palestinian refugee camp on the edge of Damascus, during regime shelling targeting Islamic State group positions in the southern district of the capital on April 28, 2018 (AFP Photo/STRINGER)/ Damascus (AFP) - The Syrian government and rebels have reached ...
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Saudi Arabia on Saturday on a hastily-arranged visit to the Middle East as the United States aims to muster support for new sanctions against Iran. The visit to Riyadh, Jerusalem and Amman just two days after Pompeo was sworn-in comes as President Donald ...
Syrian state media say an overnight missile attack in the country's northern region has killed 26 pro-government fighters, mostly Iranians. The Syrian news agency SANA on April 30 quoted a military source as saying positions in the provinces of Hama and Aleppo had been "subjected to a new ...
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo waits for the start of a meeting of NATO foreign ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Friday, April 27, 2018. NATO is set on Friday to hold its last major meeting in its old headquarters, with talks focused on strained ties with Russia, a fresh peace ...
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government forces on Sunday briefly captured four villages east of the Euphrates River in the eastern province of Deir el-Zour after rare clashes with U.S.-backed Kurdish-led fighters, then lost the area in a counteroffensive by the Kurdish-led force. The area close to the ...
The Syrian army said on Sunday it had captured a string of villages from U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) east of the Euphrates river near the border with Iraq where Kurdish-led forces are in control, state television said. The U.S.-backed proxy forces spearheaded by the Kurdish YPG ...
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Saudi Arabia on Saturday on a hastily arranged visit to the Middle East as the United States aims to muster support for new sanctions against Iran. The visit to Riyadh, Jerusalem and Amman just two days after Pompeo was sworn-in comes as President Donald ...
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is pushing the international community during his Middle East trip to impose new sanctions an people or entities that aid Iran’s missile program, a senior official has said. "We are urging nations around the world to sanction any individuals and entities ...
The new museum will show all of the artefacts discovered by Howard Carter and his team in the tomb of Tutankhamun/ Near one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World - the Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza - Egypt is officially opening what it intends as a cultural highlight of the modern age. The ...
right protesters broke into Sde Teiman base after military police questioned reservists over the video/ The Israeli military's top lawyer has resigned after saying that she was responsible for the leaking of a video that purportedly shows soldiers sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee last ...
Red Cross staff transferred the two coffins to Israeli forces in Gaza/ Israel has received via the Red Cross in Gaza two coffins which the Palestinian armed group Hamas says contain the bodies of deceased hostages, according to the Israeli prime minister's office. Israeli forces will now ...
Footage shows scale of ultra-Orthodox protest against conscription/ Hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish Israelis are taking part in a protest in Jerusalem against changes to a legal exemption for religious students from conscription in the military. Almost all sects and factions of ...
The Israeli military said it was conducting an operation to "dismantle Hezbollah infrastructure" (file photo)/ Israeli troops carried out an incursion into a south Lebanese town overnight, killing a municipal employee, state media report, amid an escalation of Israeli attacks in Lebanon. The ...
First responders say Israel's overnight strikes hit residential areas, schools and tents housing displaced families/ When is a ceasefire no longer a ceasefire? It depends on who you ask. According to US President Donald Trump on Wednesday, "nothing is going to jeopardise" the truce between ...
Four people were killed in an Israeli strike in Nuseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza/ At least 104 Palestinians were killed in a wave of Israeli strikes in Gaza on Tuesday night, the territory's Hamas-run health ministry says. The Israeli military said it struck "dozens of terror targets and ...
by the Israeli army three years ago alleges that new revelations from an American military officer who investigated her killing reveals a US cover-up. Tony Abu Akleh's comments come after the New York Times reported that a US colonel said he concluded in 2022 that Ms Abu Akleh, a ...
Efforts are continuing to find the bodies of the hostages that are still in Gaza/ Israel has received, through the Red Cross, a coffin that Hamas says contains the body of another deceased hostage held in Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said its troops had taken the coffin from Gaza back ...
Released Israeli hostage Evyatar David gestures to crowds as he returns to his home in Kfar Saba, central Israel/ The father of a released Israeli hostage who was forced to dig his own grave in a Gazan tunnel by Hamas has told the BBC his son's health is "improving every day". Avishai David was ...