Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has called for a collective international effort to end the “nightmare” of war in impoverished Yemen, rejecting a military solution to the conflict in the Arab country.   On his official Twitter account on Wednesday, the top Iranian diplomat expressed Tehran’s readiness to contribute ...

US President Donald Trump says he will “never let bad things happen” to the US economy. “I’m here today to tell you that we will never let bad things happen with respect to the economy of our country,” the president said in a tax reform speech delivered from the White ...

Israeli Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz wants Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to visit Tel Aviv. Katz revealed his wish during an interview with a Saudi-run news website, said the minister’s spokesman, Arye Shalicar, on Wednesday. “He said that he asks the king to invite (Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu officially to Riyadh, ...

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has invited all nations to recognize Jerusalem al-Quds as the capital of Palestine, blasting the United States for disregarding Middle East peace by moving its Israeli embassy from Tel Aviv to the occupied city. The 57-member organization issued a communique at the end of an ...

At least 23 Syrian civilians, including women and children, have been killed in US airstrikes on the country’s eastern Dayr al-Zawr province, says a UK-based monitoring group. “At least 23 civilians, among them eight children and six women, were killed Wednesday before dawn by airstrikes carried out by the US-led ...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has stressed the importance of long-term cooperation with Turkey on bolstering security in the region, especially in Syria. Rouhani made the remarks during a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held on the sidelines of an Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit in Istanbul on Wednesday. “The Sochi ...

The international medical charity Doctors Without Borders says at least 6,700 members of the persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority group were killed in state-sponsored violence in Myanmar only in a period of one month beginning on August 25. The announcement was made by Doctors Without Borders, also known by its French ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned the international community against the danger of “sleepwalking” into a war with North Korea over its nuclear and missile programs. “The worst possible thing that could happen, would be for us all to sleepwalk into a war that might have very dramatic circumstances,” said ...

Donald Trump and the US Congress are playing a back and forth game over the Iran nuclear agreement, where Trump is reluctant to take a definitive decision regarding the deal and Congress is incapable of shouldering the president’s irresponsible behavior, an American writer and retired professor says. James Petras, who ...

The Saudi-led airstrikes against Yemen have killed 11 civilians in the northwestern province of Sa’ada amid the escalation of war against the impoverished country.   Saudi jets targeted residential areas in Ghamr District, killing eight people, including two women and a child, Yemen’s al-Masirah TV channel reported on Thursday. Three ...