- Tehran, Iran - Iran will consider any request from its Syrian ally for troops to help tackle a sweeping rebel offensive...
Iran and Syria have been close allies for decades and Iran has long provided military advisors to the Syrian armed forces
The Iranian government has been portraying the rebel assault as a US-Israeli plot to destabilise the Middle East
- Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz vowed a "harsh response" to a Hezbollah rocket launch targeting a military position on Monday
At least two people were killed on Monday in Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon
The ceasefire came into effect on November 27 and stipulates that Israel will not carry out offensive military operations
- Washington D.C. -- US President Joe Biden on Sunday issued an official pardon for his son Hunter, who is facing...
Hunter Biden was convicted earlier this year of lying about his drug use when he bought a gun - a felony
Bill Clinton pardoned his half-brother for cocaine charges and Trump pardoned the father of his son-in-law for tax evasion
- Washington, United States - President-elect Donald Trump on Monday threatened to impose a 100 percent tariff on the BRICS group nations...
The statement comes after a BRICS summit held last month in Kazan, Russia, where the countries discussed boosting non-dollar transactions and strengthening local currencies
The BRICS group has expanded significantly since its inception in 2009, and now includes countries such as Iran, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates
- The stakes were laid bare in a warning from Britain's foreign intelligence chief that Iran's nuclear ambitions posed a major...
Following the talks in Geneva, shrouded in an unusual level of secrecy, the parties to social media to say the discussions had focused on Iran's nuclear program and sanctions
The sides had "agreed to continue diplomatic dialogue in the near future", the German foreign ministry and the high-level diplomats representing France, Britain and Iran said
- The renewed war of words between the Middle East foes came as Iran prepares to hold key nuclear talks with...
Israel is the region's sole, if undeclared, nuclear-armed state, and it has long made preventing any rival from matching it its top defence priority
Netanyahu said that the ceasefire that went into effect in Lebanon the following day would allow Israel to focus on Iran, but he did not elaborate on what action he envisaged
- Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas announced his replacement . Under current Palestinian law, the speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC)...
Abbas, 89, still rules despite his term as head of the Palestinian Authority ending in 2009
The decree comes on the same day that a ceasefire entered into force in Lebanon





















