Category: 3. Middle East

US President Donald Trump urged Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman in a phone call last month to normalize relations with Israel following the October 9 Gaza ceasefire deal, Axios reported Thursday, citing two US officials.

According to…

By Simon Lewis and Michelle Nichols

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Russia on Thursday proposed its own draft of a U.N. resolution on Gaza in a challenge to a U.S. effort to pass its own text at the Security Council that would endorse President Donald…

By Jasper Ward

(Reuters) -Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi called for the United Nations to impose “appropriate measures” against the United States and Israel over military strikes in June against Iran’s nuclear sites.Araghchi said that…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Pentagon intelligence report raises concerns over Saudi Arabia’s bid to buy F-35 jets from the United States, warning that China could acquire the aircraft’s technology if the sale proceeds, the New York Times reported on…

OTTAWA — Canada’s domestic spy agency this year foiled potentially lethal threats by Iran directed against people whom Tehran sees as enemies, the agency’s head said in a rare speech Thursday.

Dan Rogers, director of the Canadian…

By Timour Azhari

RIYADH (Reuters) -Saudi Arabia plans imminently to boost commercial ties with Lebanon after Lebanese authorities demonstrated “efficacy” in curbing drug smuggling to the kingdom over the past months, a senior Saudi official said…

Survivors of the bloody takeover of El-Fasher walked for days through the desert, past bodies and armed men who humiliated them, desperate to escape the Sudanese city now overrun by paramilitary forces.

Several gave harrowing accounts to AFP,…