While the public in Iran is learning to link foreign and security policy with the country's dire economic situation, the Supreme Leader is struggling to safeguard the very legitimacy of the regime and its vision
BAKU, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Azerbaijan has no intention of sending a contingent of its troops to take part in peacekeeping operations outside its borders, including in Gaza, President Ilham Aliyev said late on Monday. Aliyev, interviewed by Azeri television channels, said
An emboldened US President Donald Trump has hinted that he has other countries in his sights after toppling Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro, leaving the world asking: where's next? Trump took aim at Colombia, Cuba, Greenland, Mexico and Iran in the space of a single half-hour
CAIRO, Jan 5 (Reuters) - A delegation led by Yemen's main separatist group STC leader Aidarous al-Zubaidi will travel to Saudi Arabia, two sources told Reuters on Monday. The visit would come days after STC welcomed a call for dialogue by Saudi Arabia to end a recent military
The negotiations, centered on land occupied by Israel after the fall of the Assad regime, will take place in Paris on Tuesday, the source told Haaretz. The French foreign minister is expected to meet with his Syrian counterpart in Paris earlier
The Israeli military launched strikes on southern and eastern Lebanon on Monday, Lebanese state media reported, after warning it would hit what it called Hezbollah and Hamas targets in four villages. It was the first such warning issued by the Israeli military this year, as
The Israeli military launched strikes on southern and eastern Lebanon on Monday, Lebanese state media reported, after warning it would hit what it called Hezbollah and Hamas targets in four villages. It was the first such warning issued by the Israeli military this year, as
Speaking at the Knesset, the prime minister said 'the consequences will be very severe' if Iran were to attack Israel
Senior Iranian officials have begun pointing to foreign actors to explain the ongoing nationwide protests.
Venezuela's ties improved with Gulf states under Maduro, and some in the region voiced concern about the US operation.
Hezbollah has long been accused of running drug smuggling and money laundering networks in Venezuela and other South American countries to fund its activities both in Lebanon and abroad.
CAIRO, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Israel killed at least two Palestinians including a girl, and wounded four others including other children, in an airstrike on Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Monday, officials at the city's main Nasser Hospital said. The Israeli military said
Iran will offer no leniency to "rioters", though the public has a right to demonstrate, the head of the country's judiciary said on Monday, following more than a week of sometimes-deadly protests. The remarks came after US President Donald Trump warned Iran would "get hit very
President Erdoğan said, 'Turkey's receipt of the F-35 aircraft for which it has already paid,' adding that its reintegration is 'important' for NATO's defense. Israeli officials fear that the acquisition could erode Israel's long-standing qualitative military edge in the region
CAIRO, Jan 5 (Reuters) - An Israeli military spokesperson issued on Monday an evacuation order for two villages in southern Lebanon ahead of a strike. (Reporting by Menna Alaa El-Din and Muhammad Al GebalyEditing by Gareth Jones)
By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Iran's efforts to quell a wave of anti-government protests have been complicated by Donald Trump's threat to intervene on their side, a warning firmly underlined by the subsequent U.S. capture of Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro, officials
Oil prices inched up on Monday as global oversupply concerns outweighed output disruption fears over the upheaval in Venezuela.
By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro's capture by the United States has deprived Vladimir Putin of an ally and could increase U.S. "oil clout", but Moscow is eying potential gains from President Donald Trump's division of the world
Australia's defending Dakar Rally motorbike champion Daniel Sanders moved into the overall lead after winning Monday's second stage in Saudi Arabia. The 31-year-old covered the 518km route from Yanbu to Al Ula in 4hrs 13mins 37 seconds to cross the line 1min 35s clear of KTM
Jan 5 (Reuters) - U.S.-mediated talks between Syria and Israel have resumed after an interruption of several months, Syria's state news agency SANA reported on Monday, with Damascus seeking withdrawal of Israeli troops from territory seized after the fall of Bashar al-Assad.
Destroyed and looted in the early months of Sudan's war, the national museum in Khartoum is now welcoming virtual visitors after months of painstaking effort to digitally recreate its collection. At the museum itself, almost nothing remains of the 100,000 artefacts it had
ANKARA, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Turkey's foreign minister will stress the "strategic priority" of maintaining security in the Black Sea at a summit on Ukraine in Paris this week, a Turkish Foreign Ministry source said on Monday. French President Emmanuel Macron convened a meeting of
Considering Venezuela an ally of Iran and Hezbollah, Israel welcomed the capture of Venezuelan President Maduro by American forces.