The United States has called for a Tuesday vote at the UN Security Council to endorse Washington’s deal with the Taliban that is supposed to pave the way to peace in Afghanistan, diplomats said. The US military has begun withdrawing troops as part of the pullout agreed in the February[…]
Palestinians held demonstrations across the occupied territories on Friday, three days after US President Donald Trump unveiled his proposal to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the besieged Gaza Strip, thousands denounced the plan unveiled by the Trump administration for pushing forward a vision largely[…]
The impeachment trial of US President Donald Trump kicked off in earnest on Tuesday with Democrats and Republicans battling over a resolution on the rules governing the trial. Day two of the impeachment trial follows its ceremonial opening last week when US Chief Justice John Roberts, who will preside over the[…]
Fears of imminent war between Iran and the United States subsided after the US assassinated a top Iranian commander and Tehran hit bases housing American troops in Iraq with ballistic missiles. But Iran warned the US against further attacks after it launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles at the[…]
Top Democrat Nancy Pelosi is so unconvinced by President Donald Trump’s reasons for killing Iranian general Qassem Soleimani that she announced on Wednesday the House of Representatives will vote on a War Powers resolution aimed at limiting the president’s power to strike Iran. After a briefing by the Trump administration on its[…]
The United States’ defence secretary has contradicted President Donald Trump by saying the country’s military had no plans to bomb Iranian cultural sites amid threats of retaliation from Tehran over the US assassination of its top military commander, Qassem Soleimani. Speaking to reporters on Monday, Mark Esper said the US military[…]
Calls for revenge grow louder as hundreds of thousands of people gather in Iranian capital to pay respects to Soleimani. Funeral processions to honour Qassem Soleimani, a top Iranian military commander who was assassinated last week in an air raid by the United States in Baghdad, are underway in Iran. Soleimani, the head[…]
Republicans savaged President Donald Trump Wednesday for allowing Turkey to attack US allies in Syria as the President offered varying reasons for giving Turkey the green light, including the fact that Kurds did not fight alongside the US in World War II. Turkey launched its military operation to flush Kurds[…]
India raised the stakes in its dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir by revoking the decades-old special status for its part of the region. This left Pakistan fuming, but there isn’t much it can do in response, analysts told RT. For decades, the Indian constitution gave the part of disputed Kashmir[…]
The US Supreme Court has cleared the way for President Donald Trump’s administration to begin using billions of dollars in military funds to build parts of a border wall with Mexico. Friday’s decision by the conservative-majority court clears the way for Trump to make progress on a major 2016 campaign[…]
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