A senior Syrian official on Tuesday criticised the international community for excluding Damascus from recent talks on building a coalition to tackle the Islamic State group. Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Muqdad, quoted by state news agency SANA, expressed "astonishment" that Syria was not ...
Top from left, Jordanian Foreign Minister, Sheikh Sabah Khaled al Hamad, Foreign Minister of United Arab Emirats sheik Abdullah Bin Zayed al Nahyan, unidentified, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo, Norwegian Foreign Borge Brendem, front row from left, Iraqi President Fouad ...
US warplanes carried out their first air strike on the Islamic State near Baghdad, as world diplomats pledged to support Iraq in its fight against the militants./ The United States early last month began air strikes against IS positions in northern Iraq, but Monday's announcement that the ...
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, speaks on state-run TV, in a picture released by his office./ President Obama’s effort to build broad international support to destroy the Islamic State erupted Monday in a long-distance dispute between the United States and Iran's Ayatollah Ali ...
Iraq's foreign minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari gives a press conference as part of the International Conference on Peace and Security in Iraq, September 15, 2014, in Paris (AFP Photo/Thomas Samson)/ Paris (AFP) - Iraq's foreign minister on Monday voiced "regret" that Iran was not invited to an ...
PARIS/DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader said on Monday he had personally rejected an offer from the United States for talks to fight Islamic State, an apparent blow to Washington's efforts to build a military coalition to fight militants in both Iraq and Syria. World powers meeting in ...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry refused be drawn into a "back and forth" with Iran on Monday following Tehran’s assertion that it had rebuffed a U.S. request to coordinate a response to the Islamic State jihadist group. "I’m not going to get into a back and forth. I don’t want to do that. I ...
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks live on television after casting his ballot in the Iranian presidential election in Tehran June 12, 2009./ (Reuters) - Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday he had vetoed a U.S. invitation to cooperate in fighting Islamic ...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry leaves after a family photo at the International Conference on Peace and Security in Iraq, at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris September 15, 2014./ (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry refused be drawn into a "back and forth" with Iran on Monday following ...
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (L) meets with Shiite Grand Ayatollah Bashir al-Najafi during a visit in the holy city of Najaf on August 25, 2014, during the minister's two-day visit to Iraq./ - Diplomats from around the world sought a global strategy to fight extremists Monday, ...
The world's top diplomats pledged Monday to support Iraq in its fight against Islamic State militants by "any means necessary", including "appropriate military assistance", as leaders stressed the urgency of the crisis./ Representatives from around 30 countries and international organisations, ...
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says he has rejected Obama administration requests for help in fighting against Islamic State militants in Iraq. U.S. officials say there is no military coordination with Iran but Washington is open to future talks on fighting the Islamic State. ...
Islamic State militants parade a tank through a street in the Syrian city of Raqa, as the CIA recently estimated that IS has up to 31,500 fighters (AFP Photo/)/ Tehran (AFP) - Tehran ridiculed an international conference on the jihadist threat that opened in Paris on Monday, insisting the ...
French President Francois Hollande called on Monday for united international action to tackle the threat from Islamic State militants as he opened a conference on Iraq bringing together members of a U.S.-led coalition. The United States this week unveiled an outline plan to fight the Islamist ...
PARIS (AP) — Reconnaissance planes at the ready, France's president said there was "no time to lose" in the global push to combat extremists from the Islamic State group, minus the two countries who share most of Iraq's borders./ With memories of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq still fresh, the U ...
The region is experiencing the worst flooding in 50 years./ (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry refused be drawn into a "back and forth" with Iran on Monday following Tehran's assertion that it had rebuffed a U.S. request to coordinate a response to the Islamic State jihadist group. ...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry refused be drawn into a "back and forth" with Iran on Monday following Tehran's assertion that it had rebuffed a U.S. request to coordinate a response to the Islamic State jihadist group. "I'm not going to get into a back and forth. I don't want to do that. I ...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday it was "not appropriate" for Iran to join talks on confronting Islamic State militants, as he appeared to play down how fast countries can commit to force or other steps in an emerging coalition. Kerry met Turkish leaders to try to secure backing ...
PARIS/DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader said on Monday he had personally rejected an offer from the United States for talks to fight Islamic State, an apparent blow to Washington's efforts to build a military coalition to fight militants in both Iraq and Syria. World powers meeting in ...
PARIS (AP) — Newly outraged by the beheading of yet another Western hostage, diplomats from around the world are in Paris pressing for a coherent global strategy to combat extremists from the Islamic State group — minus two of the main players and without any ground troops — in a conflict that ...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says he refuses to get into a "back and forth" with Iran about whether U.S. officials asked Iran to help fight against Islamic State (IS) militants. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said earlier on September 15 that Tehran had rejected a request by ...
In this photo released by the official website of the Iranian supreme leader's office, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, waves during a meeting in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014. Iran's supreme leader underwent prostate surgery on Monday at a government hospital in Tehran, state media ...
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday dismissed as hollow and self-serving U.S. efforts to build a coalition against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria./ Iran says it backs the Syrian and Iraqi governments in their fight against the insurgents, but Tehran has not been ...
Iraq urges quick response to tackle Islamic State * Iran not attending after certain Arab states object * France sends fighter jets for reconnaissance mission over Iraq (Releads with Hollande opening conference, new quotes and details) PARIS, Sept 15 (Reuters) - French President Francois ...
Several Arab countries have offered to join the United States in air strikes against Islamic State targets, U.S. officials said on Sunday, indicating a possible widening of the air campaign against militants who have seized parts of Iraq and Syria. The officials declined to identify which ...
PARIS (AP) — As more than two dozen nations pledged Monday to help Iraq fight the Islamic State militants, the United States said it was open to talking to Iran about a role in resolving the crisis, despite Washington's earlier opposition to Tehran even attending the conference. U.S. Secretary ...
An informed source at Iran’s Foreign Ministry has dismissed contradictory remarks by Bahraini Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa about the necessity to fight the Takfiri ISIL militants./ “Contradictory remarks by certain politicians in the [Middle East] region stem ...
IRGC Commander Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari said that Tehran doubts Washington’s intentions in its fight against ISIL militant group. “The U.S. is now disappointed at ISIL and other militant groups’ performance so it is forming the international coalition to fight the group,” he said, ...
Iran’s ambassador to Azerbaijan has questioned Washington’s sincerity about launching a military coalition against the Takfiri ISIL terrorist group, saying such a coalition is only meant to deceive world’s public opinion./ In an interview with Trend news agency on Tuesday, Mohsen Pak-Ayeen said ...
The chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the US and its allies will regret any military operation in Syria./ “The Islamic Republic of Iran’s policy is to support Syria and this US action is from a bullying position and is condemned and if it does so it will regret it,” ...
Alaeddin Boroujerdi, the chairman of the National Security and Foreign Policy of the Iranian Majlis, (R) meets Slovak Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Miroslav Lajcak in Tehran on September 15, 2014./ A senior Iranian lawmaker says the US formed the so-called international ...
An Iranian Foreign Ministry official says conflict-stricken Syria and Iraq are able to resolve their own crises without any foreign interference as Takfiri ISIL militants continue to wreak havoc on both countries./ “The Islamic Republic of Iran believes that the wise and courageous nations of ...
The United States said on Monday it was opposed to military cooperation with Iran in Iraq but was open to further talks, hours after Tehran said it had rejected US overtures to help in the fight against Islamist militants./ “We are not and will not coordinate militarily... There may be another ...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (R) talks with Slovak Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Miroslav Lajcak in Tehran on September 15, 2014./ Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has cast doubt on the sincerity of the so-called coalition to fight terrorism, saying it is a “joke” ...
Iraq's Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari speaks at a press conference in Paris on the sidelines of the International Conference on Peace and Security in Iraq, September 15, 2014./ Iraq's Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari says he "regrets" that Iran has not been invited to an international ...
Iran’s Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani-Fazli says the Islamic Republic will never trust the US-led so-called international coalition to tackle the Takfiri ISIL militants./ Addressing reporters on Monday, Rahmani-Fazli said Iran would never trust the Americans in the fight against ISIL ...
Deputy Foreign Minister in Arab and African Affairs said Iran would not wait for any international coalition to fight against terrorism and will act upon its responsibilities and in the framework of international regulations, IRNA reported. According to the report of Foreign Ministry Media ...
Representatives from Iran and the P5+1 group – Russia, China, France, Britain, the US and Germany - hold nuclear talks (file photo)/ A senior Iranian lawmaker says any possible failure of talks between Iran and six world powers over Tehran’s nuclear energy program would be the result of US ...
A senior Iranian official has underlined the significance of close consultation between regional and international governments for the resolution of problems in the Middle East region. Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks in a ...
A senior Iranian official says the Islamic Republic is committed to fighting terrorism within the framework of international regulations./ "For fighting terrorism, the Islamic Republic of Iran will not wait for any international coalition and it will act based on its international responsibility ...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli military said Friday its troops in Gaza found the bodies of three Israeli hostages taken by Hamas during its Oct. 7 attack, including German-Israeli Shani Louk. A photo of the 22-year-old Shani’s twisted body in the back of a pickup truck ricocheted around the world and ...
A homeless man on parole for an assault conviction dragged a jogger by her hair on a beach near before attempting to rape her earlier this week, police said. The alleged incident occurred at around 7:15 a.m. on the Ocean Front Walk in Santa Monica. Witnesses told a 911 dispatcher that a woman, ...
A former Orlando police officer, David Arenas, passed away earlier this week after jumping into Lake Minneola in Clermont. Arenas served with the department from 1992 until his retirement as a lieutenant in 2020. The tragic incident occurred on Monday, May 13, while Arenas was enjoying the water ...
Watch a previous NBC4 report on O’Charley’s Ohio closures in the video player above. ) — A national steakhouse, which once operated several central Ohio restaurants that shuttered after the chain filed for bankruptcy, is returning to Columbus after purchasing a former O’Charley’s that closed ...
on Thursday rejected a conservative-led attack that could have undermined the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The justices ruled 7-2 that the way the CFPB is funded does not violate the Constitution, reversing a lower court and drawing praises from consumers. wrote the majority opinion, ...
Smoke rises during protests in Noumea, New Caledonia, Wednesday May 15, 2024. France has imposed a state of emergency in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia. The measures imposed on Wednesday for at least 12 days boost security forces' powers to quell deadly unrest that has left four ...
LONDON (AP) — They appear like ghosts in the night, standing outside your house, one holding up an antenna while the other crouches next to the car parked on the driveway. Within seconds, your car is gone, yet another victim amid enabled by the technology designed to make it easier to unlock and ...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The iconic Mirage hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip will shut its doors this summer, the end of an era for a property credited with helping transform Sin City into an ultra-luxury resort destination. The July 17 closure will clear the way for major renovations and construction ...
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 ...