Iran signaled “significant progress” Monday in talks on reviving a stalled accord on its nuclear program. But President Ebrahim Raisi, on his first visit to a Gulf state, insisted Washington must lift its crippling sanctions on Iran. The country’s president is a personal target of United States’ sanctions. Raisi spoke out ahead of a summit [&h...
University students whose peers were killed in a rocket attack by the YPG/PKK terrorist group last week in northwestern Syria want the perpetrators held accountable. The terror group has recently increased its attacks on civilians, disrupting security in the safe zones of northern Syria. On Feb. 15, four people, including two students from Ale...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian group Hamas on Saturday welcomed Jordanian opposition to Israeli participation in the Baja Rally hosted by Jordan. The Jordanian position against Israel taking part in the country’s Baja Rally, “which sees the participation of a number of Zionist athletes, expresses the deep-rooted authenticity of t...
ANKARA (AA) – Germany, Egypt, France, and Jordan voiced their commitment on Saturday to a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine for lasting peace in the Middle East. Following a meeting of these countries’ foreign ministers in Munich, a joint statement said the they “continue their coordination and consultation with...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi will visit Qatar on Monday with a high-ranking delegation, according to Iranian media. The visit comes at the official invitation of Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, state news agency IRNA reported. During the visit, the Iranian leader will witness the signing of several agreemen...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Lebanese Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi has said he asked the authorities to prosecute the organizers of a symposium held by a banned Bahraini group in the capital Beirut. On Tuesday, Al-Wefaq Society held a symposium in Beirut to mark the anniversary of opposition protests that erupted against the ruling regime in [&h...
BAGHDAD (AA) – A bomb attack targeted the party headquarters of Iraqi Parliament Speaker Mohamed al-Halbousi in the western Anbar province, according to a local security source on Saturday. The source, who requested anonymity, said the attack on the Progress Party took place on Friday evening and was carried out by unidentified attackers. No c...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Sunday denied any progress in Egypt-mediated talks to broker a prisoner swap with Israel. Israeli media reports said that progress has been made in talks for a prisoner exchange deal between Israel and Hamas. “There is no progress until now,” senior Hamas member Zaher Jabareen [...
MUNICH, GERMANY: Turkiye’s defense minister has said that Ankara and Iraq have agreed on getting rid of terrorism as soon as possible. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said: “We all agree on the fight against terrorism and getting rid of it as soon as [&...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Saudi Arabia said it plans to hold a fifth round of direct talks with regional rival Iran. “We are looking to schedule a fifth round of direct talks with Iran despite a lack of substantive progress so far,” Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud said in a speech at the Munich […]
