The new Iranian president said he will push to get harsh sanctions lifted without hinging Iran’s battered economy on the West. As he was officially endorsed by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran Aug. 3, Iran’s new President Ebrahim Raisi pledged to get the country’s sanctions-stricken economy back on …

В миграционном кризисе, который возник из-за конфликта Литвы и Белоруссии, примечательнее всего индифферентное отношение Евросоюза к проблемам государства-члена. Литовские руководители подчёркивают, что проблема носит общеевропейский характер, не является продуктом исключительно белорусско-литовских отношений, и даже утверждают, что получают серьёзную поддержку от ЕС. Однако это больше похоже на сохранение лица и своего …

Гуманітарна допомога у вигляді колючого дроту виглядає досить дивно, проте саме так Україна планує підтримати Литву. І ця допомога справді потрібна Вільнюсу, який потерпає від небаченої навали мігрантів. Стабільним постачальником мігрантів до Євросоюзу через кордон з Литвою стала Білорусь. Більш того, Литва напряму звинувачує самопроголошеного білоруського президента Александра Лукашенка в …

The U.S. official who wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning book on genocide landed Saturday in Sudan, aiming to support the country’s fragile transition to democracy before travelling to Ethiopia to press the government there to allow humanitarian aid to the war-torn Tigray region. Samantha Power, administrator of the U.S. Agency for …

Egypt’s military said Sunday it has killed 89 suspected insurgents in operations in North Sinai, a region where an affiliate of ISIS has been active for nearly a decade. “Amid ongoing efforts in pursuing and defeating terrorist elements… during the previous period, the armed forces… carried out operations that killed …

Despite Iran’s denial of having anything at all to do with Thursday’s attack on an Israeli-operated oil tanker, the Mercer Street, off the coast of Oman, the United Kingdom says otherwise. In what is believed to have been an attack by drones, two international crewmen, one from Romania and one …

Egypt on Sunday claimed it had killed 89 people who were “suspected of being part of the ISIS group in the northern Sinai.” An Egyptian spokesman said it was part of the intent to “pursue and defeat terrorist elements.” The army spokesman also read a list of arms that had …

Iranian political analyst Emad Abshenas, the editor-in-chief of Iran Diplomatic Newspaper, said that unlike Rouhani’s team, President-elect Raisi’s administration does not seek to reach a fundamental resolution of all disagreements with the U.S., but only to have the sanctions lifted. He made his remarks in a show that aired on …

Egypt’s parliament approved a new draft law to allow the nondisciplinary dismissal, or dismissal without judicial procedures, of public servants who are affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood. University presidents in Egypt intend to prepare lists of employees who ostensibly belong to the Muslim Brotherhood and other designated terrorist groups to …

Iran, which has denied involvement in the attack on the Israeli-linked oil tanker, responded by summoning the British chargé d’affaires in Tehran. The United Kingdom and Romania summoned Iran’s ambassadors to their countries on Monday after a suspected Iranian attack on an oil tanker off the coast of Oman last …