Credit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 02:08:49 +0000
The blasts detonated far from the bustling megacities of Asia, but the attack this week on two tankers in the strategic Strait of Hormuz hits at the heart of the region’s oil import-dependent economies.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 22:52:54 +0000
President Donald Trump on Friday blamed Iran for attacks on oil tankers near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, but he also held out hope that implicit U.S. threats to use force will yield talks with the Islamic Republic as the Pentagon considers beefing up defenses in the Persian Gulf area.
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 07:06:08 +0000
Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister has urged Muslim nations to confront recent attacks in the region that the U.S. and its allies have blamed on Iran with “all means of force and firmness.”
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 12:32:15 +0000
Iraq repatriated to Turkey on Wednesday 188 children of Turks accused of belonging to the IS group, a capital offense in Iraq.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 23:22:57 +0000
The U.S. will send hundreds of additional troops and a dozen fighter jets to the Middle East in the coming weeks to counter what the Pentagon said is an escalating campaign by Iran to plan attacks against the U.S. and its interests in the region.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 07:55:50 +0000
Iran’s president has told a group of clerics that he is seeking expanded, wartime executive powers to better deal with an “economic war” triggered by the Trump administration’s pullout from the nuclear deal and escalating U.S. sanctions.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Mon, 20 May 2019 12:02:04 +0000
Leading Iraqi Shiite figures warned Monday against attempts to pull their country into a war between the United States and Iran.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Sun, 19 May 2019 23:31:58 +0000
A rocket was fired into the Iraqi capital’s heavily fortified Green Zone Sunday night, landing less than a mile from the sprawling U.S. Embassy, an Iraqi military spokesman said.
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 13:54:39 +0000
The uncle of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is to stand trial in France on charges of building up a big property empire in the country using funds from Syrian state coffers, legal sources said Wednesday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2019 11:40:13 +0000
UN chief Antonio Guterres expressed deep concern Thursday over the risk of confrontation in Libya after forces loyal to a controversial strongman announced they were preparing to advance on Tripoli.
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