Iran Guards chief says Americans have started 'psychological war'

The United States has started a psychological war in the region, the commander of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards said in a parliament session on Sunday, according to a parliamentary spokesman.
12 May 2019

Palestinian killed by Israeli fire in Gaza

A Palestinian was killed by Israeli fire during new clashes on the Gaza border Friday, the health ministry in the Hamas-ruled enclave said.
11 May 2019

Rebels faking Yemen ports pullout: govt

A senior pro-government official yesterday accused Yemen’s Huthi rebels of faking an announced pullout from three Red Sea ports in the flashpoint province of Hodeida.
11 May 2019

Eyeing Iran, US sending more Patriot missiles to Middle East

Acting US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan approved a new deployment of Patriot missiles to the Middle East, a US official tells Reuters, in the latest US response to what Washington sees as a growing threat from Iran.
11 May 2019

Israel lifts Gaza fishing ban as calm returns

Israel yesterday lifted a ban on Palestinian fishing boats operating off Gaza, an Israeli military body said, ending a measure imposed during a deadly flare-up of violence earlier this month.
10 May 2019

Dozens feared dead off Tunisia coast

At least 50 migrants drowned yesterday when their boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off the Tunisian coast after they had left Libya hoping to reach Europe, the United Nations migration agency said.
10 May 2019

514 foreign IS members convicted in Iraq: court

The Iraqi judiciary has tried and sentenced 514 foreigners since the start of 2018 for joining the Islamic State group, the country’s Supreme Court announced yesterday.
8 May 2019

Taliban attack int’l NGO in Kabul; 5 killed, dozens hurt

Taliban militants stormed a US-funded aid group’s central Kabul compound yesterday, having targeted the organisation for promoting Western culture and the “inter-mixing” of men and women.
8 May 2019

2015 Iran nuke deal

Iran yesterday, a year to the day after the US withdrew from the accord, said it has decided to suspend some of its commitments under
8 May 2019

Iran partially retreats on nuke deal

Iran yesterday said it had stopped respecting limits on its nuclear activities agreed under a 2015 deal with major powers until they find a way to bypass renewed US sanctions.
8 May 2019

Drone strike ‘kills 4 Qaeda men’ in Yemen

A suspected US drone strike killed four alleged al-Qaeda jihadists in central Yemen yesterday, a security official in the area said. The
7 May 2019

Idlib truce in jeopardy

Air strikes and shelling killed 13 civilians in northwestern Syria yesterday, a monitor said, in the latest escalation to rattle a months-old truce and spark displacement.
7 May 2019

Libya’s Haftar orders troops to fight harder

Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar, who launched an offensive against Tripoli last month, has urged his troops to teach unity government
6 May 2019

Taliban attack Afghan police headquarter

At least 13 people were killed and dozens more wounded after a Taliban suicide bomber and several gunmen attacked a police
5 May 2019

Air strikes kill 9 in Syria’s Idlib

At least nine civilians, including two children, were killed Saturday in air strikes by Syria’s government and its ally Russia in the northwest
5 May 2019

Erdogan condemns ‘Israeli terrorism, atrocities in Gaza’

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday fiercely denounced Israel for the bombing of a building housing Turkey’s state news
5 May 2019

Ramadan in Saudi Arabia begins tomorrow

Saudi Arabian will start fasting on the month of Ramadan from Monday as the country’s moon observers said the crescent of Ramadan was not sighted Saturday, the Arab News reports.
5 May 2019

Gaza ceasefire falters again

Gaza militants yesterday fired a barrage of dozens of rockets at Israel, which responded with strikes that killed a Palestinian, officials said, as a fragile ceasefire again faltered.
4 May 2019

Ousted Bashir to be grilled

Sudan’s prosecutor general has ordered the questioning of ousted president Omar al-Bashir over money-laundering and “financing terrorism”, the official SUNA news agency said on Thursday.
3 May 2019

Bangladeshis killed in Saudi crash identified

Bangladesh embassy in Riyadh identifies the 10 Bangladeshi workers who were killed in a road crash last Thursday. They were killed when a minibus, carrying them to Madina from Dammam, fell in a ditch due to a burst tyre in a place named Shaqra.
3 May 2019