President Donald Trump, with two months left in office, last week asked for options on attacking Iran’s main nuclear site, but ultimately decided against taking the dramatic step, a U.S. official said on Monday. Trump made the request during an Oval Office meeting on Thursday with his top national security …
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Azerbaijan Extends Deadline For Armenia To Withdraw From Key District Under Karabakh Truce
Azerbaijan has agreed to extend a deadline for Armenia to withdrawal from a district as part of a peace agreement that ended a six-week war over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region. “Azerbaijan agreed to prolong the deadline for the withdrawal from Kalbacar of Armenian armed forces and of illegal Armenian settlers …
Read More »Fatah, Hamas to hold reconciliation talks in Cairo
Senior officials from rival Palestinian movements Fatah and Hamas will meet tomorrow in Cairo to continue reconciliation talks, the Hamas terror group says.
Read More »US, Israel worked together to track and kill al-Qaida No. 2
The United States and Israel worked together to track and kill a senior al-Qaida operative in Iran earlier this year, a bold intelligence operation by the two allied nations that came as the Trump administration was ramping up pressure on Tehran.
Read More »5 Daesh/ISIS terror suspects arrested in Turkey
Turkish police arrested five Iraqi nationals in the northwestern Sakarya province with suspected links to the Daesh/ISIS terror group, security sources said on Monday.
Read More »UN-led Libya talks end without naming interim government
Libya’s rival sides wrapped up a week of U.N.-brokered talks without agreeing on a transitional government that would lead the county to an election in December next year, the top U.N. official for Libya said Monday. The political forum, which concluded late Sunday in Tunisia, was the latest effort to …
Read More »Pakistan blocks off capital over anti-France protest over Macron’s comments
Pakistan authorities sealed off a major road into the capital Islamabad for a second day Monday as a far-right religious party held fresh anti-France protests. A rally in the neighboring city of Rawalpindi which attracted up to 5,000 people on Sunday spilled over into Monday, with around a thousand protesters …
Read More »Turkish attack | Forces and National Army factions shell western Tel Abyad countryside, north of Raqqa
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has monitored rocket attacks by Turkish forces and the Turkish-backed “National Army” factions on the villages of Khirbet Baqer, Kor Hassan and Qazali Silos in the western countryside of Tel Abyad, within the SDF-held areas in the northern countryside of Raqqa province, but no …
Read More »Russia’s thwarted return to the Red Sea
The Red Sea is one of the vital routes for world trade, as nearly 10% of the planet’s goods travel through it. It is the link between the energy producers of the Persian Gulf, the Western markets and the export industries of North-East Asia which is why the points of …
Read More »China accuses US of using civilian aircraft for intelligence and surveillance
Above the Asian skies, along with the growing tensions in Sino-American relations, it is getting crowded with machines performing reconnaissance missions and collecting intelligence.
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