Trump said negotiations with Iran were underway despite Tehran's denials and described the current moment as a "last chance before...
- Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) confirmed that several of its headquarters had been targeted, reporting casualties and damage to its...
President Donald Trump reposted a social media message on Sunday suggesting that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, born to Cuban...Repost comes a week after US forces seized Venezuela's authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro in an overnight operation
Cuba's government has yet to respond to Trump's provocative suggestion that an American citizen could rule the island
Palestinian vice president Hussein al-Sheikh met on Friday with former UN Middle East envoy Nickolay Mladenov, who is expected to...The meeting in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah comes a day after Mladenov held talks with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu
Bulgarian diplomat Mladenov served as the UN envoy for the Middle East peace process from early 2015 until the end of 2020
- A Russian warship arrived off South Africa's main naval base Friday to join Chinese and Iranian vessels for military exercises that...
A Chinese destroyer and replenishment ship, as well as an Iranian forward base vessel, sailed into South African waters earlier this week
The UAE was also expected to send ships, South Africa's Deputy Defence Minister Bantu Holomisa told Newzroom Afrika television
- Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday insisted the Islamic republic would "not back down" in the face of...
The demonstrations represent one of the biggest challenges yet to the Islamic republic in its over four-and-a-half decades of existence
But Khamenei struck a defiant tone in his first comments on the escalating protests since January 3, calling the demonstrators "vandals"
Israel's President Isaac Herzog on Thursday met with former UN Middle East envoy Nickolay Mladenov, whom media reports say is...A spokesman from Herzog's office said the president met with Mladenov on Thursday, without providing further details
The Times of Israel reported that Mladenov was expected to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later on Thursday
- The United States could run Venezuela and tap into its oil reserves for years, President Donald Trump said in an...
Venezuela's state oil firm PDVSA said it was discussing oil sales with the United States for the "sale of volumes of oil"
Trump and his advisors are considering a plan for the US to exert control over PDVSA, the Wall Street Journal reported
Aidaros Alzubidi was accused of high treason and removed from Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council on Wednesday, while the coalition bombed...Last month's STC offensive brought fresh turbulence to fractured Yemen and exposed deep rifts between Gulf allies Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
The oil-rich neighbors formed the backbone of the coalition fighting Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, who overran the capital Sanaa in 2014 and still control much of the country
- A Saudi-led coalition struck the home province of Yemen's UAE-backed separatist leader on Wednesday, after he failed to show up...
The separatists said they were open to discussions but warned they had lost contact with their delegation in Riyadh
On Wednesday, more than 15 air strikes hit Dhale, a local official told AFP, killing four people, according to two hospital sources
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Wednesday that Washington will control sales of Venezuelan oil "indefinitely," a day after President...Trump said Tuesday that 30–50 million barrels of Venezuelan crude will be shipped to US ports, with the revenue under his control
On Saturday, US special forces snatched Maduro and his wife from Caracas and whisked them to New York to face trial on drug charges
- The leader of Yemen's separatists is heading to Riyadh on Tuesday for talks, a Yemeni official told AFP, after days...
Saudi Arabia had called for talks between the Yemeni factions in Riyadh at the request of Yemen's government
The Saudi-organised talks indicate the beginning of de-escalation efforts after clashes in Yemen's government-run areas
