Damascus. Russia-brokered safe zones deal restores relative calm to Syria. Relative calm has been reported across most parts of Syria after a deal to set up de-escalation zones in the war-ra... Read more
Damascus. Syria de-escalation zones deal takes effect. An agreement to create four “de-escalation zones” aimed at ending the conflict in war-torn Syria has come into force in the... Read more
London. UK intelligence services identify 350 terrorists back home from Syria. British security services have warned that 350 Britons fighting alongside the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group in S... Read more
Paris. EU’s chief Mogherini says, Scrapping Iran deal in no one’s interest. The European Union (EU)’s foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, says scrapping a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran w... Read more
Washington. US advancing sale of precision-guided missiles to Riyadh. The US administration has taken measures to advance the sale of warheads and precision-guided missiles to Saudi Arabia a... Read more
San Francisco. Uber faces criminal probe over software used to evade authorities. The U.S. Department of Justice has begun a criminal investigation into Uber Technologies Inc’s use of... Read more
Washington. Pentagon to request thousands more US troops for Afghanistan. The US military will ask the Donald Trump administration next week to deploy thousands more troops to Afghanistan, a... Read more
Paris. European Council warns of ‘impossible’ Brexit negotiations with UK. European Council President Donald Tusk has warned of “impossible” Brexit negotiation after UK Prime Min... Read more
Tehran. Iran urges global action against Saudi support for terrorism. Iran’s UN Ambassador Gholam-Ali Khoshrou has urged the global community to take action against Saudi Arabia’s supp... Read more
Jerusalem. Trump ‘backing off’ on Jerusalem embassy, analyst says. US President Donald Trump will most probably “back off” on his promise to move the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Je... Read more
