Middle East

King of Jordan warns Islamic State on rise again

4:31 pm January 13, 2020

Paris: King Abdullah of Jordan on Monday warned that the Islamic State group was regrouping and was once again on the rise in the Middle East. Months after the ousting of IS last year from their last Syrian holdout, Abdullah said his “major concern is that we have seen over the past year the re-establishment […]

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US to continue pressure on Iran to prevent it from obtaining nuclear weapon: America’s NSA

12:38 am January 13, 2020

Washington : The best thing the US can do for the world is to continue its maximum pressure campaign on Iran’s regime to prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon, a top US official said on Sunday. “The best thing we can do for the Iranian people and for the world is to continue our […]

Iran agrees de-escalation ‘only solution’ to solve crisis with US

12:22 am January 13, 2020

Tehran: Iran signalled Sunday it favours a de-escalation after 10 days of heightened tensions with the United States during which both sides fired missiles and Tehran accidentally shot down a passenger aircraft. Security was stepped up in Iran’s capital after a vigil the previous night for those killed in the air disaster turned into an […]

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Trump says no Americans harmed in attack by Iran, offers peace

11:21 pm January 8, 2020

Washington: President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that no Americans were harmed in the attack by Iran on US bases in Iraq as he offered to embrace peace along with the Iranian leadership, in a significant move to de-escalate spiralling tensions in the Middle East. His remarks came hours after Iran launched over a dozen […]

Iranians mass for funeral in hometown of general killed by US

2:09 pm January 7, 2020

Kerman: Iranians gathered in Kerman for the burial Tuesday of top general Qasem Soleimani in the final stage of funeral processions after he was killed in a US strike in Iraq. The massive number of mourners in the hometown of the slain commander of the Revolutionary Guards’ foreign arm appeared to match the huge turnout […]