NEW YORK (REUTERS) – Cruise missiles used in several attacks on oil facilities and an international airport in Saudi Arabia last year were of “Iranian origin,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council in a report seen by Reuters on Thursday (June 11). Guterres also said several items in US seizures of weapons and […]

AMMAN (REUTERS) – Hundreds of Syrians in the mainly Druze city of Sweida took to the streets for a fourth day on Wednesday (June 10), protesting worsening economic conditions and demanding the downfall of Syrian President Bashar al Assad. Residents said demonstrators near a main square of the southwestern city called for Mr Assad’s overthrow, […]

MAKESHIFA, IRAQ (NYTIMES) – The assailants came at dusk, creeping on foot through the dusty palm groves near the Tigris River, armed only with a rocket-propelled grenade, a light machine gun and Kalashnikovs. They had laid roadside bombs to kill anyone who rushed to help the unsuspecting local guards, who were in their sights. When […]

TEHERAN (AFP) – Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday (June 10) urged UN Security Council members, especially veto-wielding China and Russia, to oppose a US “conspiracy” to extend an arms embargo on the Islamic republic. “We will reach a point… when, based on Resolution 2231, all arms embargoes on Iran will be lifted,” said Mr […]

Iran’s judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili says Iranian named Mahmoud Mousavi-Majd worked as spy for CIA, Mossad. Iran says its citizen who provided information to US and Israeli intelligence services on the whereabouts of the slain Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander Qassem Soleimani will be executed soon. Soleimani, leader of the IRGC’s Quds Force, was […]

As ice melts, there is risk of large glacial lakes bursting through banks and creating deadly flash floods downstream. Late last month, residents of the tiny village of Hassanabad, in Pakistan’s mountainous Hunza District, noticed floodwaters quickly rising in the stream that runs near their homes, carrying water from the towering Shishper glacier. “The flows […]

Renegade commander Haftar’s forces suffer another setback as UN-recognised gov’t wrests control of another key town. Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA) has recaptured the strategic town of Bani Walid in the country’s northwest from the forces of renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar. The latest development comes a day after the UN-recognised government seized the […]

As hard-hit country sees record number of COVID-19 cases, authorities threaten to reimpose restricting measures. An alarming flare-up in coronavirus cases in Iran has raised fresh fears of a broad COVID-19 resurgence, sparking official warnings of new restrictions and underlining the sanctions-battered country’s challenge of returning to post-virus normality. Since June 1, the number of […]

TULKAREM, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES (AFP) – Palestinians in the West Bank on Friday (June 5) rallied to mark 53 years of Israeli occupation and protest against the Jewish state’s plans to annex part of the territory. In Tulkarem, in the northern West Bank, dozens of demonstrators waved Palestinian flags and chanted slogans against Israeli settlements and […]

Series of events mark anniversary of Fariba Adelkhah’s arrest as Paris city hall displays her portrait on its facade. French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah has spent one year imprisoned in Iran, in a case that has intensified tensions between Paris and Tehran and angered supporters who fear she is the victim of a political battle. The […]