Generals say negotiations with protest leaders will resume on Sunday following 72-hour suspension over Khartoum unrest. Sudan’s military council has announced plans to resume talks with protest leaders, paving the way for the two sides to iron out differences over an interim body to steer the country towards democratic elections. In a statement on Saturday, the […]

Air defences intercept missiles fired at western Damascus from direction of occupied Golan Heights, state media reports. Syrian air defences have targeted projectiles coming from “occupied territory”, a reference to Israel and the Palestinian territories, and brought some of them down, Syrian state television reported. Loud blasts echoed across Damascus late on Friday, residents said, […]

Urging ‘friends’ to take action, Zarif said only Russia and China supported Iran and helped keep the nuclear deal going. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has urged “friends”, including China and Russia, to take “concrete action” to safeguard the 2015 nuclear deal after the United States withdrew from the agreement. On a visit to […]

The United States has warned of increasing threats to Western military forces from Iran-allied groups. Germany and the Netherlands have suspended their training of Iraqi soldiers, it emerged on Wednesday. Berlin has about 160 troops in Iraq and Amsterdam has about 50, with both missions based mainly in Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdish region. […]

The British Council has said it believes one of its Iranian employees, Aras Amiri, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison in Iran for spying. Sir Ciarán Devane, chief executive of the UK cultural organisation, said he was dismayed by the reported sentence and was “profoundly concerned for Aras’ safety and wellbeing”. “We firmly […]

Congresswoman defends remarks on Palestine and Holocaust, saying policing or twisting her words ‘will not work’. US Congresswoman and lawyer Rashida Tlaib is standing by her comments on Israel and the Holocaust after drawing intense criticism, accusing her detractors of purposefully “policing my words, twisting [and] turning them to ignite vile attacks”.  During an interview with […]

Police in Israel have arrested a man suspected of poisoning nearly half of the rare vulture population in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The suspect, in his 30s, was detained in the Bedouin village of Tuba-Zangariyye, police said. Eight out of 20 griffon vultures remaining in the area were found dead on Friday morning The incident […]

Saudi Arabia’s energy minister says two Saudi oil tankers hit in ‘sabotage attack’ off UAE have ‘significant damage’. Saudi Arabia says two of its oil tankers were sabotaged off the coast of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in attacks that caused “significant damage” to the vessels. One of the ships was en route to pick […]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi Arabia’s minister of energy said Monday two of its oil tankers were sabotaged off the coast of the United Arab Emirates in attacks that caused “significant damage” to the vessels, one of them as it was en route to pick up Saudi oil to take to the United States. […]

Iranian president Hassan Rouhani has warned of a wave of approaching economic hardships that will be worse than during the 1980s war with Iraq as “unprecedented” pressure from international sanctions brings the country to its knees. “During the war we did not have a problem with our banks, oil sales or imports and exports, and […]