Intelligence agencies in the United States believe Saudi Arabia had tried to spy on slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s fiancee when she visited the United Kingdom last year. UK-based The Guardian newspaper on Friday reported that the US agencies asked their …
The Pentagon said on Friday that 34 United States service members had been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury following missile strikes by Iran on a base in Iraq earlier this month. Trump and other top officials initially said Iran’s attack had not killed…
Baghdad, Iraq – As thousands of Iraqis headed to an upscale Baghdad neighbourhood, heeding influential Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s calls to participate in a million-man march, they had to contend with road closures and a heavier than usual security presence…
New Delhi, India – India’s newly recruited Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat has courted controversy after he claimed ‘deradicalisation’ camps are operating in India, drawing comparison with internment of Uyghur Muslims in China. “Like what we are s…
The Palestinian Authority has warned Israel and the US “from crossing red lines,” vowing not to recognise any Middle East peace plan it had previously rejected, as US President Donald Trump prepares to present the plan in the coming days. Trump said on Thurs…
Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Iraq’s capital, Baghdad, after Iraqi Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr called for a “million-strong” march to demand the withdrawal of US troops from the country, putting the protest-hit city on edge. The demonstrat…
Democrats worked methodically at United States President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial on Thursday to dismantle his long-standing allegation that Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden acted improperly towards Ukraine while vice president. On the sec…
North Korea has named as its new foreign minister a former senior army officer with little experience in dealings with the United States, in a possible indication it will take a harder line with Washington in stalled nuclear negotiations. The new post for Ri…
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he will release his long-awaited peace plan for the Middle East before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Washington, DC, next week. Speaking to reporters on Air Force One en route to Miami for a polit…
US financier and philanthropist George Soros on Thursday pledged one billion dollars for a new university network project to battle the erosion of civil society in a world increasingly ruled by “would-be and actual dictators” and beset by climate change. Spe…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged action against “the tyrants of Tehran” during a Holocaust memorial speech on Thursday in Jerusalem, comparing what he considers the threat from Iran to that once posed by Nazi Germany. Netanyahu denounced Iran …
The Republican-controlled United States Senate is hearing a second day of arguments against President Donald Trump as the impeachment trial enters its fourth day on Thursday. In six days of presentations, the president’s defence team and Democratic legislato…