The Turkish offensive in the Afrin enclave has elicited a strong reaction from Damascus, with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad condemning the operation as part of Turkey’s plan to aid extremist groups. Damascus is genuinely fearful …
Strategic cooperation between Israel and Sunni Gulf states cannot be based merely on a shared threat from Iran, experts at an international security conference said Tuesday, Defence News reports. “We need to work in parallel …
Iraq says it plans to start oil exports to Iran from the northern Kirkuk fields next week under a swap deal announced last month, Press TV reports. Iraq is about to truck 60,000 barrels per …
UN Secretary-General’s special representative for Iraq Ján Kubis has held a meeting with Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Tehran, ISNA reports. During the meeting, the two sides discussed the latest developments in Iraq, …
Tensions between the Gulf states and Qatar developed into an outright feud last June as a result of Qatar’s drift toward Iran, which led the Saudis and their partners to impose a boycott and cut …
Abdallah Al-Mouallimi, a Saudi ambassador to the United Nations, urged the UN to take a firm stance on Iran and show that the international community would not tolerate the terrorist practices destabilizing international and regional …
Gulf Arab officials used the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday to slam Iran for what they said was its destabilizing behavior in the region, taking advantage of Tehran’s conspicuous absence at the annual …
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said that Lebanon must deal with Iran, but added that he would like the best relationship with Iran. Hariri made the statement in Davos during a panel at the World …
Iran and Iraq reached an agreement to jointly develop two shared oilfields in the southwestern Khuzestan Province, a deputy at the National Iranian Oil Company told the news agency ISNA. “Iran and Iraq have signed …
Iranian-backed militias announced they have formed a coalition prior to Iraq’s May parliamentary elections. The coalition is called al Fatah al Mubin (Manifest Victory) and is led by Hadi al Ameri, chief of the Badr …
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