TEHRAN: The US government is warning ships across Middle East waterways crucial to global energy supplies that there’s the “possibility of Iranian action against US maritime interests” in the region.The US Maritime Administration put

TEHRAN: Iran has dropped espionage charges that had been laid against a French academic detained in the Islamic republic since June last year, her lawyer said on Tuesday.“The espionage charge has been dropped” for

The remains of Qassem Soleimani, a top Iranian military commander who was assassinated last week in an air strike in Baghdad by the United States, have arrived in his hometown of Kerman for burial later on

Dozens of people have been killed in a stampede that erupted in the Iranian city of Kerman at the funeral procession for a top commander killed in an air strike by the United States,

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BEIRUT: Former Renault-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn, who skipped bail in Japan and fled to Beirut, is due to be summoned by Lebanon’s public prosecutor next week, an official said Friday.The Lebanese authorities have already

BEIRUT: Lebanese President Michel Aoun said in a statement on Friday that he hoped a new government would be formed next week. Aoun said work was underway to form a government of specialists that

Aid agencies are warning that a humanitarian crisis in the Central African Republic will get even worse this year. They say continuing violence and last year's devastating floods have forced thousands of people from

The United States is sending nearly 3,000 additional troops to the Middle East from the 82nd Airborne Division as a precaution amid rising threats to American forces in the region, US officials said on

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