WASHINGTON (AA) – The US on Tuesday “strongly” condemned a drone attack by the Houthi rebel group that killed two Bahraini service members and injured many others along the border between Yemen and Saudi Arabia. “This unprovoked attack threatens the longest period of calm since the war in Yemen began,” State Depar...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – A US prisoner of Iranian origin has died in Iran, Iranian authorities have confirmed. Faramarz Javidzad, 60, died at a hospital on Saturday due to health complications, Iran’s Prisons and Security and Corrective Measures Organization (PSCMO) said in a statement. It, however, rejected reports that the prisoner had died of me...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – The US has reiterated its call for Sudan’s warring rivals to end their “brutal conflict” and allow Sudanese people to live in peace. “The warring parties must end this brutal conflict,”c, assistant State Secretary, told Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan during a meeting on the sideli...
JERUSALEM (AA) – In a meeting with US President Joe Biden in New York, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke about the possibility of reaching a peace deal with Saudi Arabia. “I think that under your leadership, Mr. President, we can forge a historic peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia. And I think such a […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – The “world is changing” amid the emergence of a new international order and the “path is irreversible”, said Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi in his speech at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. Raisi, who arrived in New York on Monday, used the platform of the annual premier conference of world leaders […]...
WASHINGTON (AA) – When Mohamed Khairullah was abruptly turned away from a White House Eid al-Fitr celebration four months ago, he demanded answers. Khairullah, the longtime mayor of Prospect Park, New Jersey, had been invited to the event, and was on his way to the US capital when he received a call telling him that […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Five US citizens who had been imprisoned in Iran returned to the US on Tuesday after being released under a prisoner swap agreement by the Biden administration with Tehran. A plane carrying these five prisoners, along with two of their family members, touched down at a military facility in Virginia, located just […...
NEW YORK (AA) – The US expressed deep concern Monday over allegations by Canada that link India to the killing of a Canadian Sikh activist. “We are deeply concerned about the allegations referenced by Prime Minister (Justin) Trudeau earlier today,” said White House National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson in a s...
Doha, Qatar – AFP Frozen funds totalling $6 billion have been transferred to Qatari banks under a US-Iran prisoner swap deal, with a plane on standby in Tehran to fly out five American detainees, a source told AFP on Monday. The release of the funds by US ally South Korea, long blocked under US sanctions, […]
TEHRAN (AA) – Iran accused the US and the three European parties to the 2015 nuclear agreement on Saturday of “misusing” the UN nuclear watchdog to achieve “political objectives.” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said in a statement that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been “politicized” despite Tehran’...
