Tag: Middle East

Gaza will no more be "habitable" by 2020 unless urgent action is taken to ameliorate water system, power, health, and schooling, the UN' broadest report on the Palestinian enclave told ...

An Israeli courtroom disapproved on Tuesday charges that Israel was at fault over the death of American activist Rachel Corrie, who was crushed by an army dozer during a 2003 ...

The leaders of the world's biggest Islamic body are anticipated to approve the hanging of Syria's membership in spite of the objection of Iran, further setting apart President Bashar al-Assad. ...

A series of outstandingly sharp affirmations over the past several days from both Turkey and Iran have brought relations between the 2 neighbors -- which have held ameliorating till recently ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has asked Turkey's quick intervention to assure the release of 48 Iranian pilgrims taken hostage in the capital of war-torn Syria by confrontation forces, ...

Iran claimed today it has successfully test-fired an upgraded version of a short-range ballistic missile with improved accuracy, increasing the Islamic Republic’s capability to strike both land and naval targets. ...

President Barack Obama has contracted a secret order authorising United States back up for rebels looking for deposing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his government, United States sources familiar with ...

Fighting in Syria's largest city of Aleppo stretched into its 11th day on Tuesday amid growing international condemnation of the Syrian government's crackdown on a tenacious rebellion that has lasted ...

A senior US Government official sounded confrontation to Kurdish self-direction in northern Syria, telling on Monday that Syria had better stay united. "We do not ascertain for the future of ...

  Russia told Saturday it wouldn't collaborate with a new round of EU sanctions against Syria and wouldn't comply with inspections of ships flying the Russian flag. "We don't plan ...