US forces last week captured an Islamic State (IS, ISIS, ISISL or Daesh) operative in a late-night raid in eastern Syria, the Pentagon announced on Wednesday. Syria has repeatedly opposed the presence of US forces in the country under the pretext of fighting terror.
Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian of Iran says he held four-way talks with his counterparts from China, Russia and Pakistan over Afghanistan’s problems on the margins of a regional summit of the crisis-hit country’s neighbors in Uzbekistan.
The US felt UN Secretary General António Guterres was too sympathetic to Russia’s interests when renegotiating the Black Sea grain deal, documents from the leaked Pentagon files reportedly suggest. The files have revealed that Washington has been closely monitoring the UN chief.
Damascus and Riyadh are moving toward reopening embassies and resuming flights between the two countries for the first time in more than a decade, the countries announced Thursday in a joint statement.
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:
Syria and Tunisia have agreed to resume diplomatic ties after a decade. The Syrian government is planning to reopen its embassy in Tunis after the North African country announced the appointment of a new envoy to Damascus.
Iran's embassy in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh reopened its gates on Wednesday for the first time in seven years, a Reuters witness said. It came after the two sides agreed to resume diplomatic relations under a China-brokered deal.
Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad has arrived in Saudi Arabia for an official visit. Ties between Damascus and Riyadh are growing amid a thaw in relations between Syria and the Arab states.
An Israeli firm's hacking tools have been used against journalists, opposition figures and advocacy organizations across at least 10 countries, a new research conducted by Microsoft Corp and the internet watchdog Citizen Lab shows.
An Iranian technical team arrived in the Saudi capital city of Riyadh on Wednesday in line with implementing the agreement between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Saudi Arabia to resume diplomatic ties and to launch political and consular activities in the two countries.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi says the downfall of the Israeli regime is much more imminent than predicted, referring to an internal political and social crisis in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Qatar has announced that the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) sent invitations to member states to attend a meeting next Friday in Saudi Arabia's Jeddah to discuss the possibility of Syria's return to the Arab League.
A Russian official says Washington has not yet issued visas for Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and other members of Moscow's delegation to attend the session of the United Nations Security Council.
Israeli soldiers have shot dead two Palestinians and injured another during a raid on a village near the West Bank city of Nablus, as tensions continue to escalate across the occupied territories.
South Caucasus rivals Armenia and Azerbaijan have accused each other of opening fire around the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region in a clash that killed a total of seven soldiers.
Detained US journalist Evan Gershkovich violated Russian law, the Kremlin maintained, in response to the US State Department having designated him as being wrongfully detained.
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:
The Iranian foreign minister has called on the Muslim nations as well as the world community to take immediate and effective action in support of the Palestinians against “Israeli crimes.”
Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ayhan Hajizadeh has stated that Baku is interested in developing “good-neighborly relations” with Tehran, and regards the continuation of talks with the Islamic Republic as important.
A video has gone viral in Turkey that shows the opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu holding an onion in the kitchen of his house, meant to criticize the government economic policies. A cost-of-living crisis amid rampant inflation and years of economic turmoil have eroded President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's support.
Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Yemen Mohammed Al-Jaber has stated that he had travelled to Sanaa to strengthen a truce and push dialogue that could end the eight-year-old war there.
A new opinion poll shows that support for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party has plummeted to a low it has not been seen in 17 years. It has disclosed that the party would lose more than a third of its parliamentary seats if an election were held now.
