The United Nations (UN) on Monday pushed for urgent action to prop up Afghanistan's banks. The world body has warned a spike in people unable to repay loans, lower deposits and a cash liquidity crunch could cause the financial system to collapse within months.
Baghdad doesn’t plan to normalize ties with Israel, Iraq’s Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein said. The top diplomat has also confirmed US combat forces will leave the country at the end of the year.
A senior Yemeni official has warned Saudi Arabia of “more painful and crippling” counterattacks in case Riyadh presses ahead with its war and siege against its neighbor.
Israeli forces have shot dead a Palestinian man in the Old City of al-Quds. It comes amid tensions over settlement expansion plans and forced expulsion of Palestinian families.
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said London must engage with the Taliban to tackle humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan. No country has yet recognized the Taliban as the rulers of Afghanistan.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has reopened its embassy in Afghanistan's capital Kabul. Amost all foreign embassies have closed in the country following the collapse of the previous government.
A member of Iran’s parliament’s National Security Commission has called for the establishment of a regional taskforce to help Afghan refugees, amid the crisis in the country.
70 percent of the Lebanese cannot afford buying medicine following the lifting of subsidies and the sharp increase in prices, head of Lebanon’s parliamentary health committee Asem Araji has confirmed.
The Yemeni army says they have launched a large-scale military operation inside Saudi Arabia, hitting the kingdom’s Khaled airbase and Aramco refinery. The "Eighth Deterrence Operation" was carried out by 14 drones.
The main problem in Afghanistan is not hunger, but the lack of cash to pay salaries to deliver social services which have existed before, Peter Maurer, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), has announced. The ICRC chief stated Afghanistan is facing a looming humanitarian crisis as aid organizations struggle with ways to pay doctors, nurses and others on the ground.
The leaders of Armenia and the Republic of Azerbaijan will meet in Brussels in mid-December to discuss border tensions, the European Union announced on Friday.
Iran's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office in Geneva has called on the UN to focus on heinous war crimes, crimes against humanity and blatant violations of human rights committed by Israel.
Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh has called the new Washington sanctions against Tehran the continuation of US failed policies pursued by the Trump administration.
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has indicted two Iranian nationals for QUOTE interfering in the 2020 US presidential election. The DoJ has alleged they used wide-ranging cyber and disinformation efforts in an attempt to sow doubt in the election process. Tehran has categorically dismissed the claims.
A group of American senators are trying to block Joe Biden administration's arms sale to Riyadh over the kingdom’s involvement in the bloody war in Yemen, three senators announced on Thursday.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman says the statement of the self-proclaimed working group of the United States, the European Troika and the countries of the Cooperation Council on Iran is not worth a response.
A senior Russian diplomat has applauded a change for the better in the hostile approach of certain Persian Gulf states toward the Iran nuclear deal. The top official has stated they seem to have backtracked on their endorsement of the US withdrawal from the agreement and are instead calling for its revival.
The United Nations' special envoy for Afghanistan has warned that members of the Daesh terrorist group now seem to be present in all provinces of the war-torn country, and Taliban is unable to stem the terror group’s growth.
