The UK, France and Germany say they deeply regret the move that will target Iran’s oil, shipping and banking sectors. The European Union has come up with a mechanism to facilitate payments for exports from Iran and offset the effects of US sanctions, reimposed on Monday. But some experts warn it may not be enough […]

Ashiq Masih’s request for asylum in US, UK or Canada comes a day after he criticised the government deal with TLP. The husband of a Pakistani Christian woman acquitted in a blasphemy case has pleaded for international help to leave the country, saying he feared for his family’s safety. The request on Sunday by Aasia […]

Iran greeted the re-imposition of US sanctions yesterday with air defence drills and an acknowledgement from President Hassan Rouhani the nation faces a “war situation”, raising Middle Eastern tensions as America’s maximalist approach to the Islamic Republic takes hold. The sanctions end all the economic benefits America granted Tehran for its 2015 nuclear deal with […]

ISTANBUL — More than a week after Saudi agents killed the journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul, Saudi Arabia sent an expert team to clean up evidence of the crime, under the guise of helping with the investigation, a senior Turkish official said on Monday — the latest twist in a case that has caused an […]

Kowsar jet features ‘advanced avionics’, multipurpose radar, and for the first time is ‘100-percent indigenously made’. Iran has started mass-producing its locally designed Kowsar fighter plane, state television reported. “Soon the needed number of this plane will be produced and put at the service of the Air Force,” Defence Minister Amir Hatami said on Saturday […]

Several reported dead and wounded following assault on vehicle travelling near monastery in Minya, south of Cairo. At least seven people have been killed in an assault on a bus carrying visitors to a monastery in northern Egypt, according to a Coptic Church official. The incident took place on Friday as the vehicle was nearby […]

DUBAI (REUTERS) – Iran has started production of the locally-designed Kowsar fighter plane for use in its air force, state television reported, as tensions mount with the United States after the reimposition of US sanctions on Teheran. “Soon the needed number of this plane will be produced and put at the service of the Air […]

ANKARA (AFP) – The body of journalist and Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi was “dissolved” after he was murdered and dismembered in Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul a month ago, according to a Turkish official. The claim echoed details a Turkish official had earlier given to the Washington Post – for which Khashoggi was a contributor […]

SADDAT AL-HINDIYAH, Iraq (AFP) – Iraqi fish farmers south of Baghdad have been left reeling after finding thousands of dead carp mysteriously floating in their cages or washed up on the banks of the Euphrates. Piles of the dead silvery fish, along with a few car tyres and plastic bags, could be seen on Friday […]