Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Beijing where they pledged to establish mutual strategic partnership.
Russian Ambassador to Tehran Alexey Yurievich Dedov has said it is “impossible” for the United States and its allies to succeed in isolating Iran and Russia through sanctions.
Russia, wary of NATO’s eastward expansion, began a military campaign in Ukraine in February 2022 after the Western-leaning Kiev government turned a deaf ear to Moscow’s calls for its neighbor to maintain its neutrality. In the middle of the mayhem, Moscow and Kiev are trying to hammer out a peaceful solution to the conflict. Follow the latest about the Russia-Ukraine conflict here:
Iran's ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations Amir Saeid Iravani has said unilateral sanctions act as barriers to the targeted countries’ contributions to global efforts aimed at combating climate change problems. He also demanded an immediate stop to the coercive measures.
Israeli troops have killed a mentally disabled young Palestinian man and wounded eight others during a raid on a refugee camp in the occupied northern West Bank city of Nablus.
Israeli forces will not face criminal prosecution for the death of an elderly Palestinian-American man who was stopped at a checkpoint, dragged from a car, bound and blindfolded and then left unresponsive on the ground overnight after apparently suffering a heart attack due to his rough treatment.
Manama is likely to resume diplomatic ties with Tehran "sometime soon", a top US diplomat for the Middle East has said. Bahrain cut diplomatic ties with Iran in 2016 a day after Saudi Arabia did so.
The Saudi embassy in the United States has spoken out on Washington's efforts to normalise relations between the kingdom and Israel, saying that any agreement will only be possible after a solution to Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories is achieved.
Arab states that normalised ties with Tel Aviv under the Abraham Accords have purchased nearly a quarter of Israel’s record $12.5bn in military equipment exports last year, a report has revealed.
A Syrian soldier was wounded in an Israeli missile strike on a Damascus countryside, SANA reported in the early hours of Wednesday, citing a military source.
Russia, wary of NATO’s eastward expansion, began a military campaign in Ukraine in February 2022 after the Western-leaning Kiev government turned a deaf ear to Moscow’s calls for its neighbor to maintain its neutrality. In the middle of the mayhem, Moscow and Kiev are trying to hammer out a peaceful solution to the conflict. Follow the latest about the Russia-Ukraine conflict here:
UK’s Defence Ministry claims that Russia has likely moved from receiving small deliveries of Iranian OWA-UAVs [one-way attack unmanned aerial vehicles] by air transport, to larger consignments by ship from Iran via the Caspian Sea. Both Iran and Russia have repeatedly denied claims that Tehran has provided Moscow with drones to be used in the Ukraine war.
A Muslim group in the US has disclosed that the FBI's secret watchlist is overwhelmingly targeting Muslims, with more than 98% of the entries being Muslim names.
Egypt is seeking to shift away from the US dollar in mutual trade with several member states of the BRICS economic bloc, Egyptian Supply Minister Ali Moselhy has said.
Twenty-two U.S. service members were wounded in a helicopter "mishap" in northeast Syria on Sunday, the U.S. military announced late on Monday, without disclosing the cause of the incident or detailing the severity of the injuries.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Beijing on Tuesday, state media reported, as China has expressed readiness to help facilitate Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
Washington and Tehran are not discussing an interim nuclear agreement, an American official has said, but the United States has reportedly told Iran of steps that might trigger a crisis and also those that may create a better climate between the long-time antagonists.
Berlin has resumed its petroleum imports from Tehran after five years despite a continued regime of US sanctions that bans any trade of energy products with Iran, according to a report.
Beijing has slammed the fresh Iran-related sanctions imposed by Washington on Chinese targets. China has urged the US to stop its unreasonable suppression of Chinese organizations and individuals.
Russia, wary of NATO’s eastward expansion, began a military campaign in Ukraine in February 2022 after the Western-leaning Kiev government turned a deaf ear to Moscow’s calls for its neighbor to maintain its neutrality. In the middle of the mayhem, Moscow and Kiev are trying to hammer out a peaceful solution to the conflict. Follow the latest about the Russia-Ukraine conflict here:
Iraq's parliament has endorsed the largest budget in the country’s history after months of political wrangling and four days of voting on individual articles. It approved on Monday a 2023 budget of 198.9 trillion dinars ($153 billion) that sets out record spending on a growing public wage bill and development projects to improve services and rebuild infrastructure ruined by neglect and war.
Saudi Arabia has announced billions of dollars in investment deals between Beijing and the Arab world on the first day of the China-Arab business conference in the Saudi capital Riyadh.
Saudi Arabia put to death three of its citizens convicted of having killed a security officer and creating a "terrorist cell", the interior ministry has confirmed.
