The European Union's senior diplomat said on Monday there was no Cold War climate between Moscow and the West as they agreed to a pause in the fighting in Syria, although Russia's prime minister said tension was growing. At a security conference in Munich on Friday, world powers agreed to a ...
The Kingdom pledged to send troops last week, amid an international campaign to fight the Islamic State./ After announcing its willingness to deploy ground forces in Syria last week, Saudi Arabia’s officials now appear to be more hesitant about their initial plans./ Saudi Arabia's foreign ...
Saudi Arabia is currently leading a military campaign against Iran-backed rebels in its southern neighbour Yemen (AFP Photo/Fayez Nureldine)/ Riyadh (AFP) - Armed forces from around 20 countries were gathering in northern Saudi Arabia Sunday for "the most important" military manoeuvre ever ...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia's foreign minister says Switzerland has agreed to handle its diplomatic services in Iran so that Iranian pilgrims can continue to visit the oil-rich kingdom. Saudi Arabia cut diplomatic ties with Iran last month after protesters outraged over the ...
BEIRUT (AP) — Turkey shelled positions held by the main Kurdish militia in northern Syria for a second day Sunday, drawing condemnation from the Syrian government and adding complexity to an inflamed situation in the area where Russian-backed Syrian government forces are also on the march, ...
In this file photo dated Saturday, Feb. 6, 2016, the Turkish border crossing with Syria, is closed near to the town of Kilis, in southeastern Turkey, as some thousands of Syrian migrants are known to be moving toward the border, fleeing from fierce fighting inside Syria. Despite the wintry ...
Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir delivers a statement after a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at the State Department in Washington, February 8, 2016./ Switzerland will handle Saudi Arabia's consular affairs in Iran and will facilitate Iranian pilgrims coming to the kingdom, ...
TEHRAN – The Iranian foreign minister has said Tehran is seeking to broaden its ties with the European Union in the near future. “It seems that Iran’s relations with the European Union, particularly Belgium, that hosts the EU meetings, will expand in the near future,” Mohammad Javad Zarif told ...
Switzerland will handle Saudi Arabia's consular affairs in Iran and will facilitate Iranian pilgrims coming to the kingdom, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said on Sunday, following a diplomatic dispute between Riyadh and Tehran. "Switzerland offered to ... handle the (consular) interests of ...
Saudi Arabia said on Sunday that any move to deploy Saudi special forces into Syria will depend on a decision by the U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State./ U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Friday he expected both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to send special operations ...
The Latest on the civil war in Syria (all times local): Iran's air defense chief says his country is ready to help defend Syria's airspace. The semi-official Tasnim news agency on Sunday quoted Gen. Farzad Esmaili as saying "We will help Syria in a full-fledged manner if the Syrian government ...
Iran will spare no effort to provide Syria with assistance in the air defense field, if Syrian government requests, commander of Iran's Khatam ol-Anbiya Air Defense Base Brigadier General Farzad Esmaili said. He underlined that Iran’s activities in Syria is only in the form of advisory help as ...
A senior Iranian commander warned Saudi Arabia on Sunday against sending troops to Syria after the kingdom deployed combat aircraft to Turkey. “We definitely won’t let the situation in Syria go forward the way rebel countries want... We will take necessary actions in due time,” Brigadier-General ...
The Iranian foreign minister says the precedent of the nuclear agreement between Tehran and the P5+1 group of countries can be employed to help resolve all crises around the globe. “The nuclear agreement was one of the rare cases where diplomacy prevailed,” Mohammad Javad Zarif said in an ...
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Brussels, Belgium, February 15, 2016/ Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has dismissed as “propaganda” claims by certain regional countries that they might deploy troops to Syria, saying no outsider can make decisions for the ...
Brigadier General Massoud Jazayeri, deputy chief of Staff of Iran's Armed Forces has warned Saudi Arabia about sending troops into Syria. Iran will not permit that “rogue” states to change the situation in Syria in accordance with their desires, Jazayeri said in an interview with Iran’s state ...
Syrian government soldiers celebrate after retaking control of the village of Ratian, north of the city of Aleppo, February 6, 2016. (Photo by AFP)/ Press TV has interviewed Foad Izadi, a professor at the University of Tehran, to discuss the remarks made by Deputy Chief of Staff of Iran’s Armed ...
The United Nations has said that an Indian staff member's death this week in Gaza was caused by an Israeli tank attack on his vehicle. Col Waibhav Kale, a former Indian army officer, died on Monday after a UN vehicle was struck near the city of Rafah. Another staffer was injured. Col Kale's ...
(Reuters) — The day before Elon Musk fired virtually all of Tesla’s electric-vehicle charging division last month, they had high hopes as charging chief Rebecca Tinucci went to meet with Musk about the network’s future, four former charging-network staffers told Reuters. After Tinucci had cut ...
However, the disparity between Supermicro and its peers is too tough to gloss over. Dell and IBM, in particular, are diversified businesses, with integrated systems representing just one of many services. While neither company is growing anywhere near commensurate levels to Supermicro, the ...
The White House has informed Congress it wants to send more than $1bn (£800m) in weapons to Israel, officials say. The package would include tank rounds, mortars and armoured tactical vehicles, according to Reuters news agency. The plan - confirmed by a congressional aide to CBS, the BBC's US ...
Israel and Egypt are locked in a row over the Rafah border crossing, blaming each other for its continued closure as Gaza's humanitarian crisis worsens. Israeli forces have taken control of the Gaza side of the crossing. On Tuesday Israel's Foreign Minister Israel Katz said he had told the UK ...
assailed the U.S. judicial system on Tuesday, becoming the highest-ranking Republican to and using his powerful position to attack the hush money case against the former president as an illegitimate “sham.” It was a remarkable moment in modern American politics: The turning his Republican Party ...
Reporters always carry some kind of baggage with them when they head off to cover a story - whether it's the tools of their trade, a camera or a microphone, or something less tangible, such as memories of a past encounter or story. It was on a recent deployment that the BBC's Middle East analyst ...
The body of a man who had been traveling down the Colorado River on a wooden raft has been found in Grand Canyon National Park, officials said. Thomas Robinson, a 58-year-old man from Santa Fe, New Mexico, was believed to have attempted to travel down the Colorado River on a wooden raft with his ...
A UN car pictured in the Gaza Strip in April this year/ The United Nations says one of its staff members was killed and another injured as they travelled to a hospital in southern Gaza on Monday. It said the workers were travelling in a UN vehicle to the European Hospital in Rafah when it was ...
The Kansas City area has one of the most deadly roads in the country, according to an analysis of data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Interstate 670 had the third most traffic deaths per mile of any road in the country, an analysis by Florida law firm Also known as the ...