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 ...
To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser./ Nada Tawfik in New York explains what happened when Netanyahu spoke/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fiercely defended his country's military campaigns in Iran, Gaza and elsewhere in the Middle East in a speech to ...
Reconstruction has yet to begin in Gaza almost a year after a ceasefire came into force/ US President Donald Trump's Board of Peace has announced a $2.45bn (£1.85bn) Gaza recovery plan at a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. The funding will be spread across 66 programmes over ...
President Masoud Pezeshkian has said Iran will never "bend the knee" after almost seven months of war with the US and Israel, but is ready for a diplomatic solution to the conflict. Responding to US President Donald Trump's threat to "annihilate" the Islamic Republic if a deal is not reached ...
Iran must "end its arming of and support" for the Houthis in Yemen, the foreign ministers of G7 nations have said in a joint statement. The G7 also condemned "in the strongest terms" Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia, adding that the recent escalation in fighting against Saudi-backed pro-government ...
To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser./ Watch: Thick black plumes of smoke rise from near Riyadh's international airport/ Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen say they carried out drone and ballistic missile attacks on the Saudi capital Riyadh, as well as energy sites ...
Locals said 10 families had been living in the building despite warnings that it was unsafe/ At least 12 people have been killed, including children, and dozens are missing after a war-damaged building collapsed in the Gaza Strip, according to local rescue teams. Video footage shows the search ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google./ FILE - Fighters from the Badr Brigades Shiite militia clash with an Islamic State militant group at the front line on the outskirts of Fallujah in the Anbar province of Iraq, June 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)/ FILE - ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google./ President Donald Trump greets Lee Greenwood at the Republican convention, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026, in Dallas. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)/ on Monday nominated the wife of "God Bless the USA" singer Lee Greenwood to ...
Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor were given the Special Jury Award at the Venice International Film Festival/ Israel's culture minister has called for the Oscar-winning Israeli co-directors of Naza, a documentary that accuses the Israeli army of mass civilian killings in Gaza, to be stripped of ...
To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser./ How Houthi gains in Yemen could drive up oil prices/ Saudi Arabia has closed a critical oil pipeline after it was attacked by drones launched from Iraq, as conflict in the Middle East widens. Iraq said it had fired a military ...