Middle East

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has shot down an intruding American spy drone in the country’s southern coastal province of Hormozgan. In a statement issued early Thursday, the IRGC said the US-made Global Hawk surveillance drone was brought down by its Air Force near the Kouh-e Mobarak region — …

Britain broke the law by allowing arms sales to Saudi Arabia that might have been used in Yemen’s war, a court ruled, after activists said there was a clear risk the weapons could be operated in violation of human rights legislation. While the court’s decision does not mean Britain must …

An independent United Nations rights expert says there is “credible evidence” suggesting Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and other senior Saudi officials are liable for the murder of prominent journalist Jamal Khashoggi last October. “It is the conclusion of the Special Rapporteur that Mr. Khashoggi has been the …

  Iran will not wage war against any nation, President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday, a day after the United States announced the deployment of more troops to the Middle East amid rising tensions between Tehran and Washington. Fears of a confrontation between Iran and the United States have mounted …

A senior Iranian security official said on Monday Tehran had recently exposed and dismantled a “large U.S. cyber espionage network”. The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, was quoted as saying by the state broadcaster IRIB that several CIA agents were arrested after Tehran shared intelligence with …

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the security of the entire world, especially the Persian Gulf region, is of high significance to Iran. Rouhani was speaking at Tehran’s Mehrabad International Airport on Thursday before leaving on a two-leg trip to the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek for a summit of the Shanghai …

Sara Netanyahu, the wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, agreed to a plea deal on Wednesday morning in a case concerning illegally ordered meals at the Prime Minister’s residence, according to a statement released by Israel’s Justice Ministry. Sara Netanyahu, who was initially charged with fraud one year ago, …

Iranian state television on Friday showed what it said were retrieved sections of a U.S. military drone downed by Iran. Amirali Hajizadeh, head of the Revolutionary Guards aerospace division, said on the program that the debris was proof that the U.S. drone had been over Iranian territorial waters when it …

The Saudi-led coalition waging war on Yemen has confirmed a retaliatory missile strike by Yemeni armed forces on the Abha International Airport in the kingdom’s southwestern Asir region. In a statement released on Wednesday, coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki said a Yemeni missile had hit the airport’s arrivals hall, causing material …

A gas leak at a sea platform in Iran’s southern gas field of Pars, in partnership with Qatar and the Persian Gulf, triggered a minor fire on Wednesday. The fire broke out hours ago in the No. 9 of the stages of development 6, 7 and 8 in the field …

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will meet Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani on a visit to Tehran this week, in a bid to ease the tension between Washington and Iran that experts called a bold move for a Japanese leader. Tension has escalated a year after …

Tehran has freed Nizar Zakka, a Lebanese national serving a jail term in Iran for espionage for the United States, following mediation efforts by President Michel Aoun of Lebanon. Lebanon’s General Directorate of General Security (GDGS)said in a statement on social media that its head, Abbas Ibrahim, was “en route …

Germany’s foreign minister arrived in Tehran on Monday to pursue the implementation of the Iran nuclear deal. Germany’s foreign minister, Heiko Maas is to meet first with the Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and then with the President Hassan Rouhani. Maas’s visit comes as part of a European effort to …

Qatar and other countries have been talking to both Iran and the United States about de-escalation, Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani said on Sunday, urging both sides to meet and find a compromise. “We believe that at one point there should an engagement – it cannot last …

The United States has not moved to create a joint working group to assess its concerns regarding Turkey’s purchase of the Russian S-400 missile defense systems, the head of the Turkish Defence Industries Directorate said on Monday. Speaking to reporters after an event in Ankara, Ismail Demir said Turkish officials …

  Syrian Arab Army’s units operating in Hama eliminated terrorist groups , which attacked military points in the direction of Tal al-Jabin, Tal Melh in the northwestern countryside of Hama , in parallel with conducting concentrated strikes against the terrorists’ supply routes coming from Idlib southern countryside. The army units …

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani highlighted the failure of US plots against the country, adding that “the enemies’ shift in tone” will not have any effect on the will of the nation and government. Rouhani made his remarks addressing a meeting between Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei …

Seventeen people were killed Thursday evening when a bus crashed into an overhead road sign in Dubai, according to police. The Omani-licensed vehicle was carrying 31 people when it crashed on Dubai’s Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Road, according to police. The driver, an Omani national in his 50s, is receiving …

Saudi authorities are likely to execute a teenager who has been held in pre-trial detention for almost four years, as a brutal crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against pro-democracy campaigners, Muslim preachers and intellectuals widens in the kingdom. Murtaja Qureiris is currently being tried at a terror …