Middle East
Airstrikes in northwest Syria kill at least 18 people
Airstrikes on areas in the last major rebel stronghold in northwest Syria killed at least 18 people, including women and children, and ...Iran unveils budget of ‘resistance’ against US sanctions
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday presented to parliament what he called a “budget of resistance” against crippling sanctions imposed by arch-enemy ...Iranian and American freed in apparent prisoner swap
An Iranian held in the US and an American held in Iran have been freed, the two sides said Saturday, in an ...Iran nuclear deal parties meet as accord nears collapse
The remaining signatories to the faltering 2015 Iran nuclear deal will meet in Vienna on Friday with the survival of the landmark ...Pro-paramilitary demonstrators flood Iraqi protest camp
Mass rallies have rocked the capital and Shiite-majority south since early October, first denouncing government graft and a lack of jobs before ...Khamenei orders Iran unrest victims treated as ‘martyrs’
Iran has given no official figures for the number of people killed during last month’s protests but it has rejected high death ...France raises possible return of Iran nuclear sanctions
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian on Wednesday raised the possibility of triggering a mechanism in the 2015 Iran nuclear deal that ...Regime supporters rally as Amnesty says Iran death toll at least 143
At least 143 demonstrators were killed across Iran, almost all of them shot by security forces, Amnesty said, as government supporters poured ...Israel braces for bitter fight after Netanyahu indictment
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s indictment is expected to sharpen the battle lines in Israel’s already deadlocked political system and could test the ...US judge awards $180M to Post reporter held by Iran
A US court ordered the government of Iran to pay nearly $180 million in damages to an Iranian-American journalist who was jailed ...











