For many Iranians, the threat of war just became real as they heard the reports of Trump’s cancelled attack on Iran. Tehran, Iran – “If we go to war, it will push us back a hundred years. Do I like going to war? No, but I’ll go if I have to,” Amirhossein Eliasi, who runs […]

Ruling military council says it will hold elections within nine months as crackdown on protesters draws condemnation. Sudan’s Transitional Military Council (TMC) has decided to cancel all agreements with the main opposition coalition and will move ahead with elections to be held within nine months, its head has said. The announcement by Lieutenant General Abdel […]

DUBAI (AFP) – A “flying object” which flew over a Japanese tanker before it was rocked by a blast in strategic Gulf waters last week could have been a reconnaissance drone, experts have told AFP. The owner of the Kokuka Courageous said the tanker’s Japanese and Filipino crew saw a “flying object”, just before a […]

TEHERAN (AFP) – Iran gave two warnings before downing a US reconnaissance drone over the Gulf of Oman, the commander of the aerospace arm of the country’s elite Revolutionary Guards said on Friday (June 21). “Twice we… sent warnings,” Brigadier-General Amirali Hajizadeh told state television. Brig-Gen Hajizadeh said that even pilotless drones, like the one […]

As fears grow of an open conflict between US and Iran, here’s a look at the incidents contributing to the crisis. Mysterious attacks on tankers near the Strait of Hormuz, assaults on oil facilities and an airport in Saudi Arabia, and the downing of a US military drone by Iranian forces – these are just […]

Hundreds of ultra-nationalist Jews guarded by riot police stream into the compound, sparking violence. Protests erupted on Sunday after Israeli forces entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound along with hundreds of ultra-nationalist Jews whom they allowed to access the compound on Jerusalem Day – when Israelis celebrate the anniversary of their occupation of East Jerusalem at the […]

Conditions surrounding death of ex-president highlight dismal reality endured by thousands languishing in Egypt’s jails. The death of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has cast the spotlight on the dire conditions faced by political prisoners in Egypt under the government of army chief-turned-president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president was declared dead on […]

Iran shot down a United States surveillance drone early Thursday, both nations said, but they differed on the crucial issue of whether the aircraft had violated Iranian airspace, in the latest escalation in tensions that have raised fears of war between the two countries. Iranian officials said that the drone was over Iran, which the […]

Iran shot down a United States drone after it entered its airspace, state media reported on Thursday, the latest escalation in the tensions between the two countries. Press TV, a state-run news outlet in Iran, said that what it called a “spy drone” had been shot down in the province of Hormozgan, along the country’s […]

The elite forces say it had shot down the drone over its territory after it violated Iranian airspace, state TV reports. Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard Corps said Thursday it had shot down a US “spy drone” over its territory after it violated Iranian airspace, according to Iranian state television. “The US-made Global Hawk surveillance drone […]