A nurse checks a boy at a cholera treatment centre at the al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen October 3, 2018. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah SANAA (Reuters) – Authorities in the Houthi-held Yemeni capital Sanaa are sterilizing water supplies at wells, distribution networks and houses to help stem the world’s worst outbreak of cholera. Nearly four years of…
“Oil is becoming less and less of a reason to stay in the Middle East because we’re producing more oil now than we’ve ever produced,” Trump said. We have reached a point where we don’t have to stay in the Middle East. One reason to stay is Israel,” US president Donald Trump said on…
Syrian soldiers arrive to Syria’s Quneitra border crossing between Syria and the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, Thursday, July 26, 2018. AP Photo/Ariel Schalit The move could explain PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to maintain government amid political crisis Two new Syrian military divisions, trained and led by officers of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard special forces, the Al-Quds Forces,…
“If we cannot sell our oil and we don’t enjoy financial transactions, then I don’t think keeping the deal will benefit us anymore.” Iran’s nuclear chief said on Tuesday he was warning the European Union’s top diplomat that Tehran’s patience was running out on the bloc’s pledges to keep up oil trade despite US sanctions. Ali…
The 32nd International Islamic Unity Conference begins in Tehran, Iran, November 24, 2018. (Photo by IRNA) Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has called on Muslim nations to unite and stand against hostile policies of the US and Israel. Addressing an annual international conference on Islamic unity in Tehran, Rouhani said Saturday Muslims have no way but to remain…
The Middle East is set to become the major test for China as a global power. The region is characterized by war, political tensions and economic stagnation. China is ramping up its role, not least with its Belt and Road Initiative. What do the Chinese think about the challenges in the Middle East? And is…
(CNN) Rebels in Yemen announced Sunday that they would stop missile and drone strikes on Saudi coalition targets at the request of the United Nations. The development comes as Riyadh faces growing pressure to put a halt to the violence in Yemen after three-plus years of devastating war. “We are willing to freeze and stop military…
The United States is claiming that Iran spends nearly $1 billion a year providing support to Hezbollah, Hamas, and other allied militant groups in the Middle East. U.S. Ambassador Nathan Sales, a coordinator for counterterrorism at the State Department, told reporters in Washington late on November 13 that Iran spends about $700 million a year…
The problem with Iran’s rulers is that they have come to rely on their expansionist foreign policies as the means for covering their internal failures. Imaginary victories. An Iranian woman walks by a mural on the wall of the former US embassy in Tehran. (AFP) In a speech three days before the second package of…
Brig.-Gen. Hossein Salami also claimed that Iran was improving its ballistic missiles. > Iran to Israel: Fingers are on the trigger, missiles are ready to launch > Iranian Revolutionary Guard general: ‘Resistance is the only way’ Hossein Salami, deputy head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, speaks during Tehran’s Friday prayers July 16, 2010.. (photo credit: MORTEZA NIKOUBAZI/ REUTERS)…