Iran planning massive expansion of uranium capacity – UN nuclear watchdog

The UN nuclear watchdog has confirmed Iran is enriching uranium to 60% at a second plant, amid the breakdown of the nuclear deal with major powers. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said ...

Explosion near Syrian capital kills Iranian colonel

An explosion in Syria has killed an official with Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, the force said on its website Wednesday, blaming Israel for the killing. The force identified the officer ...

Kurdish forces preparing to repel Turkish ground invasion

The commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in northeast Syria said his group is prepared to repel a ground invasion by Turkey. SDF head Mazloum Abdi told the The Associated Press that ...

Turkish strikes on Kurds stoke tensions with Syria as well

Russia has pushed for years for a reconciliation between its ally, the Syrian government, and Turkey, which stood on opposing sides in Syria’s civil war. Recent weeks saw the first small signs of ...

US giving Iranian protesters nothing but lip service

The Iranian street is rising up against the repression of the ruling clerical regime. The West still gives, meanwhile, the Iranian people nothing but verbal support. It continues to ...

Sudan, Ethiopia united by fight against terrorism

Sudanese-Ethiopian relations have been moving between diplomacy at some times, and conflict and skirmishes at others. Nonetheless, there are historical ties between the two African ...

Loyalty reward: Significance of Emad Trabelsi's appointment as Libyan Minister of Interior

In a new development in the struggle between the Libyan factions for power, Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Dabaiba, head of the Government of National Unity (GNU), decided to assign the commander of the ...

Somalia and Al-Shabaab: Terrorist movement retreats to jungles, drones are the key

Iran Attacks Kurdish Groups in Iraq That It Blames for Unrest

Spain to repatriate wives and children of Islamic State fighters

Spain has decided to bring back several Spanish wives, widows and children of Islamic State fighters from detention camps in northeastern Syria, the government said on Monday. Thousands of ...

Iran team refuse to sing national anthem ahead of England game in anti-regime protest

How airstrikes by Israel, Turkey and Russia denote a new era in Syrian war

Over the plains of northern Syria, an approaching warplane usually makes a distinctive roar, allowing those on the ground to determine who it belongs to and whether there’s a need to hide. But the ...

Iran says it enriches uranium to 60% purity at Fordo site

Iran has begun producing enriched uranium at 60% purity at the country’s underground Fordo nuclear plant, official media reported Tuesday, describing it as a response to a resolution by the United ...

Macron accuses Russia of spreading anti-French propaganda in Africa

President Emmanuel Macron has accused Russia of spreading anti-French propaganda in Africa to serve its “predatory” ambitions in the region. Speaking on the sidelines of a summit of French-speaking ...

Auditors in Iraq uncover staggering $2.5 billion tax fraud

Auditors in Iraq have uncovered a massive scheme in which a network of businesses and officials embezzled some $2.5 billion from the country’s tax authority, despite layers of safeguards. The ...