Eurasia

Iran has started enriching uranium at its underground Natanz plant with a second type of advanced centrifuge, the IR-4, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said in a report reviewed by Reuters on Tuesday, in a further breach of Tehran’s deal with major powers.

The following statement was released by United States Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio, and UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on the occasion of the 10-year anniversary of the Syrian uprising: Today marks …

Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani said that “chauvinist ideology” is still prevalent in Iraq. “It is indeed shameful that even after the bombardment of Halabja with chemical weapons and the genocide against the people of Kurdistan, chauvinistic thinking remains dominant in Iraq, and that the rights of the people of Kurdistan …

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said that rebels had killed twelve members of Syrian government forces in Daraa, Southwestern the country. SOHR founder and director, Rami Abdul Rahman, said, “a group of militants attacked two military trucks and two mini-vans of the regime forces in the vicinity of …

A commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and his bodyguard were reportedly killed by a landmine blast in Al-Mayadeen to the east of the city of Deir Ezzor, a stronghold of ISIS terrorist organization, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). SOHR said it has monitored …

782 suspects of terrorism and drug trafficking have been arrested in the governorates of Basra, Nineveh, Al-Anbar and Saladin in 2020. A security source in the Iraqi Military Intelligence Directorate on Tuesday revealed to Shafaq News Agency that 48 wholesalers of illegal drugs was arrested, and thousands of narcotic pills …

PM called off first official trip to UAE last week at the last minute, blaming Jordan for failing to approve flyover; Jordan confirms closing its airspace over diplomatic spat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday that he was deterred from flying to the United Arab Emirates through Saudi airspace last …

The announcement comes a year after the Trump administration slashed $73 million in assistance over concerns the Houthis were diverting the aid. The United States is restoring aid to Houthi-held parts of northern Yemen “to help meet the region’s critical needs,” the US special envoy for the war-torn country confirmed …

Thirty-one member countries at the UN Human Rights Council issued a rare rebuke of Cairo’s crackdown on peaceful dissent. The United States joined 30 other countries on Friday to express concern over “the trajectory of human rights in Egypt” and the Egyptian government’s use of counterterrorism laws to crush peaceful …

Abdul Hamid Dbeibah has vowed to unify the war-torn country and lambasted the presence of foreign mercenaries. Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, Libya’s new prime minister, was sworn in on Monday ahead of United Nations-sponsored elections set for December that aim to reunite the war-wracked country a decade after the overthrow of …