UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Thursday called on regional rival Saudi Arabia to “cease and desist” from “divisive policies” if it was serious about regional peace and security. Rouhani was addressing the United Nations General Assembly the day after Saudi Crown […]
GAZIANTEP, TURKEY — More than five years of relentless war have fragmented Syria like a jigsaw puzzle. The task of reassembling the pieces increasingly seems to rest not with Western policymakers, Gulf princes or Iranian ayatollahs but with Russia and now Turkey, some diplomatic observers […]
Despite a Turkish-led assault to uproot Islamic State fighters from northern Syria, rockets launched Thursday from remaining IS-held areas hit a Turkish border town, wounding at least eight people, including children, near a busy market, Turkish officials said. It was the first major attack on […]
Hillary Clinton holds a modest lead over Donald Trump in Virginia, according to two polls released Thursday, although the Republican nominee has gained ground since August, when he trailed by double digits. A Roanoke College poll found Clinton leading with 44 percent to Trump’s 37 […]
Hundreds of Zionist settlers stormed the shrine of Prophet Youssef in Nablus on Thursday, under the protection of occupation forces. Clashes broke out with Palestinian citizens in the city in which the enemy forces fired live ammunition and rubber bullets and tear gas, which caused […]
Nearly 50 civilians have been killed and scores more injured in a Saudi airstrike on Yemen’s western Hudaydah province. The strikes were carried out against a busy marketplace in the province’s Hawak district late on Wednesday. Earlier in the day, Saudi warplanes targeted residential areas […]
Syria’s envoy to the UN has blasted deadly airstrikes on an airbase, saying the raids show the US, along with Turkey and Israel, have moved from a proxy war to a “personal” one on the Arab state. Speaking at a UN Security Council meeting in […]
The Syrian military has announced a new offensive in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, where a quarter of a million people are living under siege. Jets pounded rebel positions in the city on Wednesday night as a week-old truce collapsed, reportedly killing at least 13 people. It […]
A rocket launched by Islamic State militants at American troops based in Iraq did contain a mustard agent, the US military has confirmed. No-one was hurt in Tuesday’s attack on the Qayyarah air base near the IS stronghold of Mosul. Marine Gen Joseph Dunford, chairman […]
Britain should apologize for its 1917 declaration endorsing the founding of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and should recognize Palestine as a state, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday. Speaking at the UN General Assembly, Abbas said that the Palestinian people had suffered greatly […]
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