The Afghan Taliban has denied reports its leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor was killed in a US strike in Pakistan, as Washington and Kabul said it was probable he was dead. Earlier on Saturday, US officials told several media organisations that drone attacks authorised by President Barack Obama had likely killed[…]
Iranian parliament has passed a bill demanding that the government seek damages from the United States’ “hostile action and crimes” committed since 1953, citing “material or moral damage” caused by Washington’s policy toward Iran. Among the “hostile actions” mentioned in the bill are the US support for the coup against[…]
The Moroccan Interior Ministry has expressed outrage at the US State Department’s report on human rights in its country, which it says is based on unreliable sources and contains outright “lies.” The North African US ally warns it is “prepared to go to the end” to defend its record. The[…]
World powers are ready to consider demands from Libya’s new unity government for exemptions from a UN arms embargo and militarily equip it in its fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) and other groups. The joint decision, announced by US Secretary[…]
Vietnam would welcome the United States “accelerating” the lifting of a lethal arms embargo, which would reflect trust between the two countries and recognition of its needs to defend itself, its foreign ministry said on Thursday. The comment by Vietnam comes just over a week ahead of a visit to[…]
Donald Trump has gone from long-shot contender to the Republican party’s presumptive nominee for president with a crushing win in Indiana that forced his main rival Ted Cruz out of the race. Addressing jubilant supporters at Trump Tower in New York after romping to his seventh straight state-wide victory, the[…]
Iran asked U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon on Thursday to convince the United States to stop violating state immunity after the top U.S. court ruled that $2 billion in frozen Iranian assets must be paid to American victims of attacks blamed on Tehran. Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote to[…]
The United States will send more troops to Iraq and will put them closer to the front lines of battle there to advise Iraqi forces in the war against Islamic State militants. U.S. defense officials said on Monday that Washington will deploy about 200 additional troops, mostly as advisers for[…]
US health officials have confirmed that Zika virus causes babies to be born with abnormally small heads and other severe brain defects, confirming the worst fears of many pregnant women in the US and Latin America. Doctors in Brazil have been linking Zika infections in pregnant women to a rise[…]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed hope that the United States will continue to support Israel at the United Nations by opposing all resolutions on the creation of a Palestinian state. Addressing the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Washington’s most influential pro-Israel lobbying group,[…]
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