Leaked notes from a White House Situation Room meeting the day before Kabul fell shed new light on just how unprepared the US administration was to evacuate Afghan nationals who'd helped Washington in its 20-year war.
Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units have released a statement, saying they neutralized a Daesh terrorists’ plot to infiltrate the eastern province of Salaheddin.
Qatar's Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani says Doha is using its open channels with Washington and Tehran to bring their views closer.
The United States and the United Kingdom have announced they are readying sanctions on Russia over Ukraine. The Kremlin has warned any such move will bring about countermeasures from Moscow.
Israel is carrying out “the crime of apartheid against Palestinians” and must be held accountable for treating them as “an inferior racial group”, Amnesty International says in a new report.
The Taliban have rejected a UN report alleging that over 100 officials and security forces of the previous Afghan government were killed by the group or its allies after the US withdrawal from the country.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated that UK's plans to target Russia with sanctions are not legitimate. He noted any such aggression will bring about countermeasures from Moscow.
A Yemeni military official has told Iran’s Tasnim news agency that the most important message Operation Storm Yemen has is “take warnings of the Yemeni armed forces seriously” and that “the Yemeni Army will go deep into Emirati soil to achieve its military goals”.
US President Joe Biden and Qatar's emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, will discuss a range of issues including Iran and energy security in the aftermath of a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine, US officials say.
The European Union is negotiating gas supplies with the United States, as well as Qatar, and Azerbaijan, in case Russia decides to cut or stop supplies, High Representative of the EU Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell says.
The United States has announced that its allied Kurdish forces in Syria have successfully retaken a prison following an attack by the Daesh that left dozens dead.
Several explosions rang out across Abu Dhabi's skies. It comes after Yemen's armed forces said they are about to announce a "large-scale" military operation against the United Arab Emirates.
A US citizen has been captured in Syria and transferred into the custody of the FBI. The woman, believed to be a former teacher, played an active role in helping Daesh terrorists train women and children as suicide bombers in the war-torn country.
Iraqi intelligence forces took into custody the perpetrator of a recent rocket attack on the Baghdad International Airport compound, who confessed to his affiliation with the United States.
Ali Asghar Khaji, senior advisor to the Iranian foreign minister, has demanded the UN and the international community to intervene in Yemen and end the Saudi-led war on the country and also the inhumane siege of the Yemeni people.
Thousands of doctors and nurses in Israel are either in isolation or sick with the coronavirus and other respiratory diseases, according to reprots. The Israel Association of Hospital Directors has been requesting that the government allocate more people and equipment to cope with the rising challenge but their demands have largely fallen on deaf ears.
A top Russian security official says
Moscow is in no way threatening Ukraine, adding all allegations by the US authorities in this regard are total absurdity, Russian
Israeli President Isaac Herzog arrived in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday on the first such visit, his office announced. He is seeking to strengthen Persian Gulf ties at a time of heightened regional tension as the world powers are trying to revive a nuclear deal with Iran.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has called for a "transparent, independent and impartial" investigation into the recent airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition on a detention center in Yemen, which claimed scores of lives.
Four rockets have hit a US military camp in the city of al-Shaddadi in the Syrian province of al-Hasakah. It is the latest in a series of attacks that have targeted US forces over the past few months in the region.
The US has announced that it is canceling $130 million in military aid to Egypt over human rights concerns. The move comes just days after Washingto approved a $2.5 billion arms sale to Cairo.
