MiddleEast
MiddleEast
Any of the countries located in the Middle East, including (but not limited to), Israel, Iran, Iraq, Yemen.
Wednesday 15 May 2019
...a move that comes as the U.S. government has alluded to risks of an attack by the Islamic Republic or its proxies in the region.
Tuesday 14 May 2019
Incident comes amid growing tensions in the Gulf and a war of words between the United States and Iran.
...recent events such as Iranian threats to close the Strait of Hormuz and a series of mysterious "sabotage" attacks against oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, less than 100 miles away, have led to a new spike in tensions.
Tuesday 26 March 2019
American Jews are very uncomfortable with Trump, but the pro-Israel lobby has embraced him wholeheartedly.
Monday 25 March 2019
Friday 22 March 2019
...adding that U.N. Security Council resolutions had recognized the annexation as null and void.
Thursday 21 March 2019
Trump’s announcement, in a midday Twitter post, came after persistent pressure from Mr. Netanyahu, a close political ally who is fighting for his survival in the election scheduled for April 9
...reversing decades-long American policy and violating a United Nations resolution.
Thursday 14 March 2019
No injuries or damage were reported, but residents reported hearing loud blasts and the mayor ordered bomb shelters opened.
Tuesday 12 February 2019
The congresswoman’s comments may have been thoughtless. But if we call all criticism of Israel “anti-Semitic” we risk making the term meaningless.
Monday 11 February 2019
The fierce backlash against the Congresswoman for stating the obvious can be seen as a sign that the Israel lobby, though still powerful, is losing some of its oomph
Tuesday 5 February 2019
The US shipped weapons and secrets to the Saudis and Emiratis. Now, some are in the hands of fighters linked to al Qaeda and Iran.
Sunday 3 February 2019
"My intelligence people, if they said in fact that Iran is a wonderful kindergarten, I disagree with them 100 percent. It is a vicious country that kills many people"
Wednesday 30 January 2019
Dan Coats says situation in Pyongyang and Tehran entirely different to picture painted by president in recent speeches
Sunday 27 January 2019
The House [...] will turn to legislation higher on the Democrats’ priority list, including a bill to raise pay for civilian federal employees.
In the Senate, Republicans will try to push through a bipartisan Middle East policy bill that includes a disputed provision targeting the movement to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel.
Sunday 13 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 23
...despite Mattis' concerns, the Pentagon provided the White House with options to counterattack against Iran.
Thursday 10 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 20
This is exaggerated. [...] This needs context. [...] This is misleading.
“the age of self-inflicted American shame is over”
Wednesday 9 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 19
...as part of his tour to reassure regional allies of the US' commitment to security and stability in the Middle East amid a shifting Syria strategy.
Wednesday 26 December 2018
Government Shutdown Day 5
The trip, shrouded in secrecy, came [...] less than a week after Mr. Trump [...] infuriated even some of his staunchest political allies by announcing plans to withdraw troops from Syria and about half of those stationed in Afghanistan.
Monday 24 December 2018
Government Shutdown Day 3
...and hold early elections in April, nearly eight months earlier than required by law.
Saturday 22 December 2018
Government Shutdown Day 1
McGurk [...] had been planning to exit his post in February 2019. But [...] he will accelerate his departure due to a strong disagreement with President Trump's snap decision to withdraw 2,000 U.S. troops from Syria
Friday 21 December 2018
Wednesday 12 December 2018
Saturday 8 December 2018
Meng Wanzhou [...] is believed to have helped Huawei circumvent US sanctions by telling financial institutions that a Huawei subsidiary was a separate company
Thursday 6 December 2018
Huawei’s CFO was detained at the request of the US government, allegedly because she attempted to evade the US trade embargo on Iran
Monday 26 November 2018
EU powers take lead on special payments channel to maintain trade with Islamic Republic
Tuesday 20 November 2018
The new actions target Syrian national Mohammad Amer Alchwiki and his Russia-based company, Global Vision Group, along with seven other entities
Monday 19 November 2018
“He’s never been interested in going,” the official said of Trump visiting troops in a combat zone, citing conversations with the president. “He’s afraid of those situations. He’s afraid people want to kill him.”
Trump has so far declined to visit those combat regions, saying he does not want to associate himself with wars he views as failures
Friday 16 November 2018
...contradicting the Saudi government’s claims that he was not involved in the killing
Monday 12 November 2018
Monday 5 November 2018
...but their progress on an issue that has sharply divided the United States and its closest allies has been halting, at best.
In a preview of the war of words that is likely to escalate, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said his country would continue selling oil in defiance of the sanctions.
Friday 2 November 2018
The move is "aimed at depriving the regime of the revenues that it uses to spread death and destruction around the world," Pompeo said.
Wednesday 3 October 2018
The largely symbolic move came hours after the International Court of Justice ordered the United States to ensure that a new round of American sanctions imposed against Tehran this year did not prevent food, medicine and aircraft parts from reaching Iran.
Saturday 29 September 2018
Saturday's footage is likely meant as a show of strength amid new U.S. sanctions on Iran
Tuesday 25 September 2018
Monday 24 September 2018
Russia laid the blame squarely on Israel, saying Israeli fighter jets had pushed the Russian plane into the line of Syria's fire.
Sunday 23 September 2018
“I don’t know when we’re going to overthrow them,” Giuliani was quoted as saying by Reuters.
“It could be in a few days, months, a couple of years. But it’s going to happen.”
Thursday 20 September 2018
Tuesday 18 September 2018
...after a Russian plane was shot down by Syrian forces amid an Israeli air raid.
Friday 14 September 2018
A spokesman for Kerry ridiculed Pompeo's assertion that Kerry was acting in unprecedented ways, adding that Kerry had briefed Pompeo on his conversations with Iranian officials
Wednesday 12 September 2018
“Iran did not act to stop these attacks by its proxies in Iraq, which it has supported with funding, training and weapons.”
Tuesday 11 September 2018
Russia sailed a small armada of its navy ships into the Mediterranean and has signaled that it would retaliate against the US if there was a strike.
Monday 10 September 2018
...the latest step in what U.S. officials call a pressure campaign to bring the Palestinians to the negotiating table for Middle East peace talks led by [...] Jared Kushner.
Sunday 2 September 2018
Until several weeks ago, the Israeli policy was that any cut in American funding of UNRWA should be gradual and without any aid cuts to Gaza, thanks to the fear of a humanitarian collapse and an escalation on the ground.
Monday 27 August 2018
The Russian Ministry of Defence said on Monday it had noticed Washington was building up its military forces in the Middle East in preparation for what Moscow feared was a possible strike on Syrian government forces
Friday 24 August 2018
As with the money for Syria, the administration intends to redirect the funds intended for Palestinians to higher-priority projects elsewhere
Monday 20 August 2018
Efforts by the remaining signatories - EU members Britain, France and Germany plus China and Russia - to avoid the agreement’s collapse are struggling as Washington has said any firms dealing with Teheran will be barred from doing business in the United States.
The Pentagon is concerned that not providing safe haven to more of the Iraqis, many of whom interpreted and did other key tasks for U.S. forces, will harm national security by dissuading locals from cooperating with the United States in Iraq and other conflict zones
Saturday 18 August 2018
Thursday 16 August 2018
Tuesday 7 August 2018
Monday 6 August 2018
U.S. officials said the sanctions that have been waived for the past two and a half years will be snapped back officially on Tuesday morning at one minute past midnight.
Saturday 4 August 2018
Sunday 22 July 2018
Rouhani said: “Mr Trump, don’t play with the lion’s tail, this would only lead to regret,”
Israel has formally declared the right of national self-determination, once envisioned to include all within its borders, as “unique to the Jewish people.”
Mr. Kushner and Mr. Greenblatt [...] are rethinking their efforts to rebuild Gaza’s economy as a way of opening the door to a broader peace accord.
Wednesday 4 July 2018
Tuesday 5 June 2018
Honeywell, GE, Dover among the companies shutting down presence before sanctions start to bite
Wednesday 16 May 2018
...in exchange for access to and advice about the then-incoming administration
Tuesday 15 May 2018
The Trump administration accused the head of Iran’s central bank of funneling money to Hezbollah and designated him as a global terrorist
The new designation is separate from the nuclear sanctions that were reinstated last week against Iran.
Monday 14 May 2018
Even as Palestinians’ anger erupted, American and Israeli officials celebrated President Trump’s move of the embassy to Jerusalem.
Sunday 13 May 2018
Saturday 12 May 2018
Thursday 10 May 2018
China and India, which together make up the majority of purchases of Iranian oil, are unlikely to curtail their Iranian oil imports — and may actually look to expand them.
Israeli fighter jets struck dozens of Iranian targets in Syria overnight ... following soon after what the Israeli military described as an unsuccessful Iranian rocket attack against its forces in the Golan Heights.
Wednesday 9 May 2018
The possible action includes legislation that would block Washington from punishing European companies that continue to do business with Iran.
The full impact on global oil markets may not be seen for weeks or months. It will depend on how tightly the administration enforces new sanctions on Iran, and whether the entire deal collapses or can somehow be salvaged.
Tuesday 8 May 2018
Trump has come to see his policy toward North Korea as a success and believes his unusual combination of insults and biting economic sanctions appears to have brought Kim to the table. Now, Trump wants run the same playbook against Iran.
Rouhani said Iran is ready to start unlimited uranium enrichment if these negotiations do not yield benefits in a couple of weeks.
Trump’s decision unravels the signature foreign policy achievement of his predecessor, Barack Obama, isolating the United States among its allies and leaving it at even greater odds with its adversaries in dealing with the Iranians.
Almost two-thirds of Americans -- 63% -- believe that the US should not withdraw from the agreement made with Iran to prevent the country from developing nuclear weapons. Only 29% believe the US should withdraw
Trump is expected to announce Tuesday that he will not continue a waiver of sanctions against Iran ... a major step toward ending the nuclear agreement he has called an “insane” deal that “never, ever should have been made.”
Monday 7 May 2018
Tuesday 1 May 2018
The Trump administration on Tuesday embraced Israel’s claims that Iran entered a nuclear deal with the world’s major powers under false pretenses, a stark divergence from its European allies, who said the disclosures broke little new ground and reinforced, rather than weakened, the case for the 2015 deal.
Mr Netanyahu produced what he said were copies of Iranian files detailing a project to build nuclear weapons, which was reportedly mothballed 15 years ago.
Friday 27 April 2018
Trump and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany made no attempt on Friday to hide their disagreements over the future of the Iran nuclear deal and trade relations
Wednesday 25 April 2018
‘Rational analysis does not lead me to think he will stay in the deal,’ says French president.
Tuesday 24 April 2018
Hours of intensive talks and elaborate displays of bonhomie between President Donald Trump and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday failed to yield clarity on the fate of the Iran nuclear deal, which Trump has derided and Macron hopes to salvage.
Monday 23 April 2018
President Emmanuel Macron of France arrived Monday at the White House for the first state visit of Mr. Trump’s presidency
Wednesday 11 April 2018
Saudi Arabia said it intercepted ballistic missiles and shot down drones sent from Yemen, in the latest attack by pro-Iranian rebels that showed improved military capabilities more than three years into the conflict.
Monday 9 April 2018
A missile strike on an air base in central Syria was carried out by Israeli warplanes in the early hours of Monday morning causing multiple casualties
Friday 23 March 2018
None of the alleged hackers were direct employees of the Iranian government, but all worked at the behest of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps
Sunday 18 March 2018
"The Iran deal will be another issue that's coming up in May, and right now it doesn't feel like it's going to be extended,"
Tuesday 13 March 2018
Monday 12 March 2018
Qatari officials gathered evidence of what they claim is illicit influence by the United Arab Emirates on Jared Kushner and other Trump associates, including details of secret meetings, but decided not to give the information to special counsel Robert Mueller for fear of harming relations with the Trump administration
Monday 5 March 2018
A former top aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel turned state’s witness on Monday, the third close associate to agree to testify against him in a corruption scandal that threatens to end his career.
Tuesday 27 February 2018
Monday 12 February 2018
Friday 9 February 2018
The F-16, one of at least eight Israeli planes despatched in response to what Israel said was an Iranian drone’s incursion into its airspace earlier in the day, was hit by a Syrian anti-aircraft missile and crashed in northern Israel
Tuesday 23 January 2018
The vice president's Middle East trip was originally meant to draw attention to the plight of the region's Christians, but since Trump's Jerusalem declaration, they want nothing to do with him
Monday 22 January 2018
Government Shutdown Day 3
Mr. Pence’s statement ... follows President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital last month, a move that overturned decades of American policy and international consensus on the status of the holy city.
Friday 12 January 2018
Trump on Friday kept alive the Iran nuclear deal he detests by waiving sanctions for the third time, but he said he will not grant another reprieve unless the agreement is amended to permanently block a potential pathway for Iran to build nuclear weapons.
Tuesday 9 January 2018
...the air strikes targeted Syrian army and Hezbollah weapons depots, igniting "successive explosions and fires, causing material damage".
Sunday 7 January 2018
The business dealings don’t appear to violate federal ethics laws, which require Mr. Kushner to recuse himself only from narrow government decisions that would have a “direct and predictable effect” on his financial interests
But the deal last spring illustrates how the Kushner Companies’ extensive financial ties to Israel continue to deepen, even with his prominent diplomatic role in the Middle East.
Tuesday 2 January 2018
Monday 1 January 2018
The president’s tweets suggest he barely understands the country he’s repeatedly demonized. This is troublesome given how much influence he has on what happens next.
Protests across Iran saw their most violent night as "armed protesters" tried to overrun military bases and police stations before security forces repelled them, killing 10 people
Sunday 24 December 2017
...becoming the first nation to follow President Trump’s lead in ordering the change, which has been widely criticized around the world.
Monday 18 December 2017
Pence was mindful that Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, was returning to his home state for cancer treatment, leaving Republicans with only 51 votes for the tax bill. The vice president wanted to make sure that he was in place to break a tie if it were necessary
Sunday 10 December 2017
Pence is scheduled to visit the Middle East later this month but will no longer be meeting with Mahmoud Abbas ... nor Pope Tawadros II ... Both said their decisions were in response to Wednesday's announcement by President Donald Trump that the U.S. was recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
Thousands of protesters chanted slogans against Mr. Trump’s orders ... with some throwing rocks and setting tires and a large trash container on fire outside the embassy’s highly secured gated compound
Friday 8 December 2017
After Trump’s announcement, Abbas, the Palestinian president, said the United States could no longer be a fair mediator in the peace process between Israelis and Palestinians. He said it would galvanize the Palestinian struggle for independence.
Thursday 7 December 2017
On the same day that he signed his name with a John Hancock-like flourish to a proclamation recognizing Jerusalem as the capital, he quietly signed another document that will delay the move of the American Embassy to the city for at least six months — and probably much longer.
Palestinian protesters battled Israeli soldiers on Thursday in Jerusalem, Ramallah and other places in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, one day after President Trump announced that his administration would recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Wednesday 6 December 2017
World leaders warned Trump that the move could spark violence and would create a major impediment to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
...the House and Senate passed a bill called the “Jerusalem Embassy Act,” which formally recognized the city as the country’s capital and called for the U.S. Embassy in Israel to be moved there from Tel Aviv by 1999.
The bill became law after Clinton declined to sign it for a 10-day period while Congress was in session. He, George W. Bush and Barack Obama all postponed the embassy move every six months for each of the 22 years since the law was enacted.
Tillerson has been calling leaders from around the world in recent days to alert them to the pending announcement.
Tuesday 5 December 2017
The Trump administration allowed a deadline to pass Monday for signing a waiver that keeps the embassy in Tel Aviv. The waiver allows the State Department to avoid fines for not moving the embassy to Jerusalem, which Israel regards as its undivided capital.
Sunday 3 December 2017
The failure to disclose his role in the foundation—at a time when he was being tasked with serving as the president’s Middle East peace envoy—follows a pattern of egregious omissions that would bar any other official from continuing to serve in the West Wing
Thursday 30 November 2017
Trump and his senior aides are mulling a plan to eventually move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a decision that could derail Trump’s attempts to restart peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
Friday 24 November 2017
Militants detonated a bomb inside a crowded mosque in the Sinai Peninsula on Friday and then sprayed gunfire on panicked worshipers as they fled, killing at least 305 people and wounding at least 128 others.
Between 25 and 30 militants carried out the attack, the statement said. They barged in carrying automatic weapons and the Islamic State flag.
Wednesday 22 November 2017
Their message has been the same: If America’s friends in the region aspire for enhanced security, they’d best not wait for the White House to provide it. And if recent events offer any indication, the message has been received loud and clear.
Wednesday 8 November 2017
The White House on Wednesday condemned attempted missile attacks launched against Saudi Arabia by Yemeni rebels, blaming the Iranian government for arming the rebels with such weapons systems.
Friday 13 October 2017
Haley would become the administration’s most vocal public proponent of decertification—and Trump’s favorite internal voice on Iran—further boosting her standing with the president
While many of the president’s cabinet members, aides, and advisers work to restrain his impulses, when it came to Iran deal Haley did the opposite—channeling what many Democrats and even some Republicans consider the president’s destructive instincts into policy.
Haley wasn’t alone. The fingerprints of former U.N. ambassador John Bolton .. were also on Trump’s Friday address in the form of a warning that Trump ... could still cancel the deal “at any time”.
Iran, Russia and European leaders roundly condemned President Trump’s decision on Friday to disavow the Iran nuclear deal, saying that it reflected the growing isolation of the United States, threatened to destabilize the Middle East and could make it harder to resolve the growing tensions on the Korean penninsula.
But the Trump administration made it clear that it wants to leave the 2015 accord intact, at least for now. Instead, it is asking Congress to establish “trigger points,” which could prompt the United States to reimpose sanctions on Iran
Thursday 12 October 2017
...the United States would remain involved as a nonmember observer state.
Tuesday 3 October 2017
Trump’s national security team has unanimously recommended that he decertify the Iran nuclear deal — but that he stop short of pushing Congress to reimpose sanctions on Tehran that could unravel the agreement.
Sunday 1 October 2017
A U.N. investigation uncovered a complex arrangement in which Egyptian business executives ordered millions of dollars worth of North Korean rockets for the country’s military while also taking pains to keep the transaction hidden
Tuesday 26 September 2017
Iranian reports that the nation tested a new ballistic missile so far does not appear to be true, the official said, adding: "As far as we can see, it did not happen."
Saturday 23 September 2017
State television carried footage of the launch of the Khoramshahr missile ... It also carried in-flight video from the nose-cone of the missile, which has a range of 1,250 miles (2,000km) and can carry multiple warheads.
Sunday 10 September 2017
The image posted over the weekend by the younger Netanyahu ... appears to be a local take on a classic anti-Semitic meme suggesting that Jews control the United States. It has appeared widely on extreme alt-right websites.
Friday 8 September 2017
The United States is in many ways little more than an air force, military trainer and weapons depot for assorted Sunni despots.
Tuesday 22 August 2017
Kushner departed on Sunday and is set to arrive in Israel Wednesday night for meetings on Thursday. The traveling American delegation was meeting with leaders from the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Qatar and Saudi Arabia in the days before.
Monday 7 August 2017
Indeed, walking away from the Iran deal ... would not only open up a now dormant nuclear crisis with Tehran, it would also close down perhaps the only option that might prevent a far more dangerous crisis with North Korea.
Saturday 24 June 2017
Palestinian officials were “greatly disappointed” by their meeting with Kushner and Trump’s Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt.
Monday 19 June 2017
Iran fired missiles on Sunday into eastern Syria, aiming at the bases of militant groups it holds responsible for attacks in Tehran which left 18 dead last week
Saturday 17 June 2017
Trump has thrown his weight firmly behind the two countries where he has business ties, raising new concerns about the appearance of a conflict between his public role and his financial incentives.
Saturday 10 June 2017
Images and reports from witnesses in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa suggest that the United States-led coalition battling the Islamic State there has used munitions loaded with white phosphorus
Friday 9 June 2017
“The nation of Qatar, unfortunately, has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level,” Trump said
Trump initially took sides with the Saudi-led group before apparently being nudged into a more even-handed approach when U.S. defense officials renewed praise of Doha, mindful of the major U.S. military base hosted by Qatar
Thursday 8 June 2017
Trump issued a statement on Wednesday mourning the attacks, but added: “We underscore that states that sponsor terrorism risk falling victim to the evil they promote.”
Wednesday 7 June 2017
The attacks unfolded as a number of gunmen stormed the main gate of the parliament building in central Tehran and opened fire. At the same time, a shooting spree targeted Imam Khomeini’s shrine about 25 kilometers away in south Tehran.
“At the end of the day, we have a lot of leverage on the Qataris and they are not going to walk away. But the president has thrown fuel on the fire. If we are going to build a coalition to fight extremism, you have to smooth over differences, and this is going to inflame them.”
Tuesday 6 June 2017
Monday 5 June 2017
The countries — Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain — released separate and apparently coordinated statements saying they would cut air, sea and land links with Qatar
Thursday 1 June 2017
Trump made the decision to defer action on the embassy “to maximize the chances of successfully negotiating a deal between Israel and the Palestinians”
Thursday 25 May 2017
...the U.S. bomb triggered secondary explosions from devices clandestinely planted there by ISIS fighters. ...the secondary blasts caused the concrete building to collapse.
Tuesday 23 May 2017
Monday 22 May 2017
"Promote the possibility of lasting peach"
Trump began a two-day visit to Israel and the West Bank on Monday
Sunday 21 May 2017
Excerpts from President Donald Trump’s speech ... do not include the words “radical Islamic terrorism,” a phrase that is considered offensive to Muslims and that McMaster has been trying — and failing — to delete from the president’s vocabulary for months.
Saturday 20 May 2017
The 68-year-old incumbent secured a commanding lead of 57 percent in a race that drew more than seven out of every 10 voters to the polls.
Friday 19 May 2017
Saudi Arabia, Israel, Rome, the Vatican, Brussels, Sicily
Thursday 18 May 2017
The speech is being drafted by White House aide Stephen Miller
Tuesday 16 May 2017
Israel is one of the United States’ most important allies and runs one of the most active espionage networks in the Middle East.
...over reported comments by an American diplomat describing the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City -- one of Judaism's holiest sites -- as being in the West Bank.
Wednesday 3 May 2017
Trump is prepared to welcome Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to the White House on Wednesday, putting a renewed focus on prospects for peace with Israel
Wednesday 19 April 2017
Although most world leaders, publics, and the United Nations see the Jewish settlements on the West Bank as a major impediment to peace, the current U.S. ambassador to Israel was once the president of a fundraising group supporting just such an Israeli settlement.
The certification decision ... means that the administration has extended relief from sanctions given to the Iranian government in exchange for constraints on its nuclear program.
Thursday 6 April 2017
Jared’s never been to war before. But his father-in-law, a very busy man, sent Jared to the war to see how it’s going!
Tuesday 21 March 2017
It does not affect American-operated airlines, since they do not fly directly to the United States from 10 designated airports in eight countries
Tuesday 14 March 2017
The meeting lasted almost five hours, and the two discussed settlement construction in the West Bank as well as efforts to promote the peace process.
Monday 20 February 2017
Mattis’s rejection of the idea came after repeated claims by Trump that the United States should have taken Iraq’s oil during the Iraq War. Trump suggested last month that “maybe we’ll get another chance”
Wednesday 15 February 2017
Trump said he “could live with” either a separate Palestinian state or a unitary state as a peaceful outcome.
For Netanyahu, the talks with Trump will be an opportunity to reset ties after a frequently combative relationship with Democrat Barack Obama.
Thursday 9 February 2017
“We’ve got nothing. We’ve got nothing. We never even kept a small, even a tiny oil well. Not one little oil well. I said, ‘Keep the oil.’”
Wednesday 8 February 2017
His remarks followed news reports that Yemen's government had demanded a halt to U.S. special operations.
Tuesday 7 February 2017
Khamenei reportedly told the commanders: "We however thank this new guy in the White House, since he largely did the job we had been trying to do in the past decades: to divulge the true face of the US."
Friday 3 February 2017
"The videos aren't particularly noteworthy, it's no news that these videos exist, nor is the content remarkable," he said. "They could have likely found the same sort of guides by browsing LiveLeak for a few hours."
The sanctions, coming in the first weeks of Trump's term, reflect his administration's desire to take a strong stance toward Iran from the start.
Thursday 2 February 2017
The statement could disappoint Israel's far-right which had hoped Mr Trump would give an unqualified green light on rapid settlement construction in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem
“Iran has violated the Joint Resolution, that Iran’s additional hostile actions that it took against our Navy vessel are ones that we are very clear are not going to sit by and take”
As a result, three officials said, the attacking SEAL team found itself dropping onto a reinforced Al Qaeda base defended by landmines, snipers, and a larger-than-expected contingent of heavily armed Islamist extremists.
Wednesday 1 February 2017
Most countries consider all Israeli settlements to be illegal. Israel disagrees, citing historical and political links to the land - which the Palestinians also assert - as well as security interests.
Monday 30 January 2017
The Khorramshahr medium-range ballistic missile flew 600 miles before exploding, in a failed test of a reentry vehicle
Sunday 29 January 2017
The raid on Al Qaeda headquarters was the first counterterrorism offensive under President Trump aimed at gathering intelligence about the militant group
One posting hailed the U.S. president as “the best caller to Islam,” while others predicted that Trump would soon launch a new war in the Middle East.
Saturday 28 January 2017
“And unfortunately, based on information we have from intelligence assets on the ground, this plot is already well under way”