Katyusha rocket lands at oil hub in Iraq’s Basra, injuring 3
Press TV – Unknown assailants fire a Katyusha rocket at an area housing representative offices of several international oil companies in the…
Regional Affairs
EU calls for utmost restraint in regard to tanker incidents
Tasnim – European Union foreign ministers are looking for more information on who might be behind the attacks on two oil tankers…
Explosions hit two large oil tankers in Sea of Oman: Reports
Press TV – Media reports say two large oil tankers have been hit by explosions in the Sea of Oman. Iran’s Al-Alam…
French FM Says Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’ won’t bring ‘serenity’
MNA – The top French diplomat says Trump’s yet-to-be-revealed plan for Middle East is “an approach that cannot grant serenity”. On Saturday,…
Saudi teenager faces death penalty as crackdown widens in kingdom
PressTV – Saudi authorities are likely to execute a teenager who has been held in pre-trial detention for almost four years, as…
Israeli paper reveals scandalous details of ‘deal of century’
Press TV – US President Donald Trump’s “the deal of the century” wants Palestinian refugees to be naturalized and settled in several…
Lebanon’s Hezbollah vows to confront US Middle East plan
Reuters – Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah pledged on Friday to confront the U.S. Middle East plan that President Donald Trump has touted as…
Bahraini conference part of Saudi services to Israel: Yemeni leader
Tasnim – Leader of Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement Abdul-Malik Badreddin al-Houthi highlighted the Saudi regime’s role in US-Israeli plots against the Palestinian…
‘Deal of the Century’ against intl. law: Mahmoud al-Zahar
MNA – Mahmoud al-Zahar, a co-founder of Hamas resistance movement, says that the Bahraini-hosted meeting to discuss the economic aspects of the…
France urges Saudi, UAE to end dirty war on Yemen despite arms sales
Alwaght – French Foreign Minister on Tuesday called on Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to end a bloody aggression on…
Terrorists in Idlib using civilians as human shields: Syria’s UN envoy
Press TV – Syria’s UN Ambassador Bashar al-Ja’afari says foreign-backed Takfiri militants based in the northwestern Idlib Province are using civilians as “human shields,”…
Injury of Muslim hearts to heal only if Qods liberated
IRNA – Representative of Yemeni popular committee Mohammad Ahmad Al-Qabali said on Wednesday that cause of Palestine is a wound in the…
Turkey ‘begins operation against Kurdish militants in Iraq’
Press TV – Turkey says it has launched a military operation against Kurdish militants in a mountainous area of northern Iraq. In…
Nechirvan Barzani elected president of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan
Press TV – Iraqi Kurdish lawmakers have elected Nechirvan Barzani as president of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region. Barzani, who had been serving…
Persian Gulf’s weakest links see cost of money rising on Iran risk
Bloomberg | Netty Idayu Ismail: Bahrain and Oman may have missed a golden opportunity to lock in cheap foreign financing. Ever since tensions…
Top Bahraini cleric warns Arab states against backing ‘deal of century’
Tasnim – Sheikh Isa Qassim, the spiritual leader of Bahrain’s Shiite majority, deplored the US government’s so-called “deal of the century” plan…
Israel attacks Syria’s defenses in SW, killing soldier
Press TV – Israel targets Syria’s defenses in a southwestern province, killing one soldier, wounding another, and destroying a military vehicle. Citing…
China, Russia boycott US-led ‘deal of century’ promo event in Bahrain
Press TV – China and Russia will not be participating in a US-led economic conference set to take place in Bahrain next…
Saudi regime vicious ploy for Quds International Day
MNA – This year, Quds international Day will be of special importance since US is planning to officially announce the “Deal of…
Yemen launches fresh retaliatory attacks on Saudi Arabia
Press TV – Yemeni armed forces have conducted fresh retaliatory attacks on Saudi Arabia’s southwestern Jizan region. The al-Masirah TV channel reported on…
Palestinians unite to reject deal of century: Hamas
Tasnim– A senior member of the political bureau of Hamas said Palestinians have united to reject the so-called “deal of the century”…
Israel calls Hezbollah ‘strategic threat’ to provoke world against it: Nasrallah
Press TV – The secretary general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement says Israeli authorities have described his group as “a strategic…
16 Palestinians hurt in clashes with Israeli forces at Gaza border
Press TV – Israeli troops have shot and wounded more than a dozen Palestinians during anti-occupation protests near the fence between the…
Yemenis hold funeral for victims of deadly Saudi air raids on Sana’a
Press TV – Yemeni people have held a mass funeral for victims of last week’s Saudi airstrikes on the capital Sana’a, venting…
Three-day Gaza war: Outcomes, consequences
Alwaght – The wars always play as the key for transformation and change in the center-periphery equations of the international order, either…
Russia may have designs on Iran’s trade with Syria
Al-Monitor | Igor A. Matveev: When Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov paid a visit recently to Damascus to meet with Syrian…
Saudi Arabia to execute three prominent scholars after Ramadan: Report
Press TV – Saudi officials are reportedly set to sentence three imprisoned dissident scholars to death and execute them shortly after the…
US, Israel to blame for regional tensions: Hezbollah
Tasnim – Hezbollah’s second-in-command Sheikh Naim Qassem said the US and Israel are both responsible for the escalation of tensions in the…
Yemenis launch retaliatory drone attack on Saudi arms deport at Najran airport
Press TV – Yemeni armed forces, led by the Houthi Ansarullah movement, have launched a drone strike on an arms depot at…
Saudi jets kill, injure 15 civilians in Yemen’s Hajjah
Tasnim – Saudi warplanes carried out fresh strikes against residential areas in Yemen’s northwestern province of Hajjah, killing and injuring 15 people.…
Once again, Iraq caught up in tensions between US and Iran
AP | QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and BASSEM MROUE: When U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sat down with Iraqi officials in Baghdad last week…
Qatar not invited to emergency Arab summits in Saudi Arabia
MNA – Qatar has not been invited to two regional summits called to discuss attacks on Saudi oil assets. Saudi King Salman…
Iraqi Shia figures warn US-Iran war could ‘burn’ Iraq
AP — Leading Iraqi Shia figures warned Monday against attempts to pull their country into a war between the U.S. and Iran,…
Yemen army inflicts losses on Saudi-backed militants
Tasnim – At least 12 Saudi-backed mercenaries were killed and injured after Yemeni troops and fighters from Popular Committees targeted their positions…
US announces start of GCC’s ‘enhanced security patrols’ in Persian Gulf
Press TV – The United States says countries of the (Persian) Gulf Cooperation Council have started patrolling in the region amid the…
Huge explosion reported near US embassy in Baghdad
Sputnik – An explosion has reportedly taken place near the Green Zone close to the embassy area on Sunday. Rockets landed in…
World is failing children in Yemen
FNA – According to the head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the time is now for the international community to take…
Iraq oil minister calls Exxon Mobil’s evacuation of foreign staff ‘unacceptable’
Reuters – Exxon Mobil’s decision to evacuate its foreign staff from the West Qurna 1 oilfield in southern Iraq on Saturday was…
Saudi Arabia to convene Arab leaders in emergency summits
MNA – Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has invited Persian Gulf and Arab leaders to convene emergency summits, according to the Kingdom’s foreign…
Exxon Mobil evacuates foreign staff from Iraqi oilfield: sources
Reuters – Exxon Mobil has evacuated all of its foreign staff from Iraq’s West Qurna 1 oilfield and is flying them out…