“The goal remains simple,” US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday while announcing new measures against Iran. That goal, he said, was “to deprive the outlaw regime of the funds it has used to destabilise the Middle East for four decades, and incentivise Iran to behave like a normal country”. The US, Mr […]

Saudi Arabia has said that it executed 37 of its citizens on Tuesday on charges of terrorism. One of the men was crucified after his execution, according to a statement by the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA). The statement added that the men were charged with “adopting terrorist extremist ideology, forming terrorist cells” and harming […]

ANKARA, Turkey — Saudi Arabia executed 37 people on Tuesday after they had been sentenced to death for terrorism-related crimes. The executions were announced in a statement on the state-run news agency, which said the men had been put to death for “their adoption of extremist, terrorist ideology and forming terrorist cells to corrupt and […]

DUBAI (REUTERS) – Teheran is prepared for a US decision to end waivers granted to buyers of Iranian crude, an Iranian oil ministry source said on Monday (April 22) , as the Revolutionary Guards repeated their threat to close the strategic Strait of Hormuz, Iranian media reported. The United States will fail to cut Iranian […]

US President Donald Trump has decided to end exemptions from sanctions for countries that buy oil from Iran. The White House said waivers granted to the five main buyers – China, India, Japan, South Korea and Turkey – would expire in early May. This decision is intended to bring Iran’s oil exports to zero, denying […]

Thousands of children from around the world remain trapped in Syria facing an uncertain and dangerous future, a charity has warned. Save the Children says it has found more than 2,500 children from 30 countries in three camps alone. They are being held away from the camps’ populations, in segregated areas with foreign women believed […]

CAIRO — The message blared from social media videos, from banners too big to miss, and from the upbeat Election Day songs playing so boisterously on jumbo speakers that they rose above the nonstop honking of Cairo traffic: “Do the right thing. Vote.” On many of banners, a green checkmark next to President Abdel Fattah […]

President Trump on Friday abruptly reversed American policy toward Libya, issuing a statement publicly endorsing an aspiring strongman in his battle to depose the United Nations-backed government. The would-be strongman, Khalifa Hifter, launched a surprise attack on the Libyan capital, Tripoli, more than two weeks ago. Relief agencies said Thursday that more than 200 people […]

HEBRON, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES (AFP) – Israeli forces destroyed two apartments in the occupied West Bank on Friday (April 19) that housed the family of a Palestinian accused of killing an Israeli woman in February, the army said. Soldiers surrounded the apartment block in the flashpoint southern city of Hebron beginning late on Thursday. They then […]

An Iranian who became the first woman from her country to contest an official boxing match says she has cancelled her return home from France after a warrant was issued for her arrest. Sadaf Khadem beat the French boxer Anne Chauvin in an amateur bout on Saturday. She had planned to fly to Tehran with […]