Bahrain Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa speaks during a news conference in Manama, Bahrain, August 29, 2016. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed/File Photo/ RIYADH (Reuters) - Bahrain's foreign minister accused Qatar on Monday of creating a military escalation in a dispute with regional ...
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks to the media after the Eid al-Fitr prayers in Istanbul, early Sunday, June 25, 2017. Eid al-Fitr marks the end of the Muslims' holy fasting month of Ramadan.(Presidential Press Service, Pool photo via AP)/ ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey's president on ...
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks to the media in Tbilisi, Georgia, April 18, 2017./ Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called on Monday for Europe to use its influence to defuse tensions in the Gulf where Saudi Arabia and its allies have cut ties with Qatar. Iran's ...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani holds a press conference in Tehran on May 22, 2017 (AFP Photo/ATTA KENARE)/ Tehran (AFP) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday said his country wants to bolster ties with Qatar and rejected a Saudi-led blockade of the Gulf Arab emirate. "Iran's policy is ...
Iranian president Hassan Rouhani gestures during a news conference in Tehran, Iran, May 22, 2017. TIMA via/ Iranian President Hassan Rouhani voiced support on Sunday for Qatar in its confrontation with Iran's rival Saudi Arabia and its allies, saying a "siege of Qatar is unacceptable", the state ...
and its allies, saying a "siege of Qatar is unacceptable", the state news agency IRNA reported. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain cut ties with Qatar on June 5, accusing it of support for They have since issued 13 demands including closing television, curbing relations ...
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif addresses a meeting of the European Council on Foreign Relations in the German capital Berlin on June 26, 2017./ Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has emphasized the need for setting up a security forum to promote dialogue among the ...
Israeli missiles hit classrooms on upper floors of the building in the overnight strike/ In a classroom-turned-bedroom at a UN school in Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, Palestinian children clamber through rubble and blood-stained mattresses. Just hours earlier, at least 35 people were ...
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying two astronauts aboard Boeing's Starliner-1 Crew Flight Test (CFT) on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, is launched, Cape Canaveral/ (Reuters) -Boeing's new Starliner capsule and its inaugural two-member NASA crew neared final approach to the ...
The strike took place on the Nuseirat refugee camp, seen here on Monday/ An Israeli air strike on a UN school packed with hundreds of displaced people in central Gaza has killed more than 20 people, local residents say. The Israeli military said it carried out a strike on a UN school that housed ...
Crowds gathered outside the Damascus Gate before marching through the Muslim Quarter/ Tens of thousands of Israelis, many from nationalist groups, have taken part in the annual Jerusalem Day flag march to mark the capture of the east of the city in the 1967 war. Crowds waving Israeli flags and ...
warned Wednesday that Russia could provide long-range weapons to others to strike Western targets in response to NATO allies allowing Ukraine to use their arms to attack Russian territory. Putin also reaffirmed Moscow’s readiness to use nuclear weapons if it sees a threat to its sovereignty. The ...
Dean Sweetland is one of a dozen residents tackling recent bushfires around Kibbutz Malkiya/ Three rusty water-trucks stand at the edge of Kibbutz Malkiya, on Israel’s border with Lebanon; little bigger than a family car, they look like something out of an old cartoon. A collection of industrial ...
electric aircraft from company Archer Aviation, is seen at the Salinas Municipal Airport in Salinas/ (Reuters) - Archer Aviation said on Wednesday the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted the company a certificate to begin commercial operations, making it the second electric ...
A symbol of safety and security for parents and students is being charged with heinous acts that completely contradict that notion. Kiara Lee, a 26-year-old crossing guard, is accused of distributing electronic cigarettes and substances containing marijuana to students at Penn Wood Middle School ...
Palestinian families have begun fleeing Bureij camp and surrounding areas/ The Israeli military says it has begun a ground operation against Hamas in the Bureij refugee camp and east of the town of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. Troops backed by air strikes were targeting “terrorists ...
Israeli forces pulled out of Gaza City's al-Shifa Hospital in April/ After Israeli forces pulled out of Gaza City’s vast al-Shifa hospital complex on 1 April, following their second raid there, stunned Palestinians who pored over the burnt-out ruins said it reeked of death. During the past eight ...