Saudi Arabia and Israel do not share official diplomatic ties, but the two countries have started to normalize relations in recent years, particularly in terms of Iranian foreign policy In the latest display of warming [ More … ]
US Senator Bob Menendez says Trump administration is currently trying to sell thousands of precision-guided bombs to Riyadh Top Senate Democrat Bob Menendez has warned that Mike Pompeo has been pursuing another arms deal with [ More … ]
The US and Sudan have reached a typical understanding on the “contours” of a future bilateral claims settlement linked to the 1998 al Qaeda bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, the U.S. State [ More … ]
A Democratic House committee chairman said the investigation into arms sales might have been “another reason” for the firing of the inspector general, Steve A. Linick, reported the New York Times. The US State Department [ More … ]
In an alert that appeared aimed squarely at Iran, the U.S. Navy issued a warning on Tuesday to mariners in the Gulf to stay 100 meters (yards) away from U.S. warships or risk being “interpreted [ More … ]
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has announced that Palestine will reconsider the deals and understandings reached with both Israel and the US, should Israel annex parts of the occupied West Bank. “We will hold the US [ More … ]
The US is removing four Patriot missile batteries and dozens of troops deployed to Saudi Arabia amid heightened tensions with Iran, according to a report published Thursday, Anadolu Agency reported. The military assets were sent [ More … ]
A recent U.S. report, prepared by POMED and CIP has questioned the feasibility of the U.S. Security Assistance to Egypt In a new report jointly published by the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) and [ More … ]
Iranian foreign ministry says the sanctions, which are part of Washington’s ‘maximum pressure’ campaign, are impeding Tehran’s fight against Covid-19 Iran’s foreign ministry has urged the international community to ignore US sanctions and help the [ More … ]
The US Congress has passed a resolution limiting President Donald Trump’s power to wage war or take military action against Iran. The House of Representatives joined the Senate in the move by voting 227 to [ More … ]
Ethiopia will skip the latest round of U.S.-brokered talks this week on a disputed Nile dam project with Egypt and Sudan, the country’s water ministry announced Wednesday, reported The Associated Press. The U.S.-sponsored trilateral talks [ More … ]
Member of Hamas Political Bureau, Mousa Abu Marzouq, revealed that his movement has rejected holding talks with the US due to its bias towards the Israeli occupation, Quds Press reported on Friday. According to Quds [ More … ]
Bezos’ security team has concluded his phone probably had been hacked with a tainted video sent from bin Salman’s, pictured, WhatsApp account. Organization to recommend both Saudi Arabia and US investigate claims against Mohammed bin [ More … ]
Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi asked U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo to send officials to Iraq to work out a mechanism for the withdrawal of American troops, according to his office, as the [ More … ]
US president says sites ‘will be hit very fast and very hard’ if Iran takes revenge for Soleimani assassination US President Donald Trump threatened that 52 “high level” Iranian targets “will be hit very fast” [ More … ]
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