Oil prices have increased in Asia one day after US President Barack Obama pledged to expand its bombing campaign against ISIL terrorists and launch airstrikes against the Takfiri cult in Syria. On Thursday, US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for October delivery gained 16 cents to USD 91.83, while Brent crude for October rose14 cents to USD ...

[caption id="attachment_111749" align="alignright" width="308"] Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Haider al-Abadi[/caption] Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says his countrys intelligence sources have warned of ISIL plans to carry out attacks on subway systems in the United States and France. On Thursday, Abadi said captive ISIL Takfiri militants ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:   Supreme Leader: ISIL backbone broken by Iraqi people, army not by US The Iranian Supreme Leader said listening to the US claims about its war on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant was much fun for him when he was hospitalized for his recent surgery, adding that both Washington ...

(Reuters) - The United States on Monday ruled out any possibility of future military coordination withIranin a U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State fighters but held out the prospect of separate talks with Tehran onIraq, describing the jihadists as a serious threat to Iran and the region. The comments follow a statement by Iran's Supreme Leader ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian Supreme Leader said listening to the US claims about its war on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant was much fun for him when he was hospitalized for his recent surgery, adding that both Washington and the ISIL know well that the terrorist group has been defeated by the Iraqi people and army and not by the US. "During ...

Is America at war with the Islamic State? On Friday, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said as much. In the same way that we are at war with al Qaeda and its affiliates around the globe, we are at war with ISIL, he said, using the acronym for the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. The remark set a thousand Washington keyboards aflutter, as Secretary ...

Continuing their competition with the US over intervention in Iraq, Irans officials have said that Washingtons coalition for action against the jihadist Islamic State is irrational. Speaker of Parliament Ali Larijani (pictured) saidin a Saturday ceremony in northeast Iran, The US logic for annihilating the Islamic State group will not result in reforms ...

Islamic State militants set fire to an oil storage tank atIraqs largest refinery as the U.S. prepares to escalate the campaign against the extremist group. Militants fired mortar rounds at the Baiji refinery, 130 miles north of Baghdad, causing a crude storage tank to catch fire and emit a plume of smoke visible from miles away, the police said in ...

A group of peace activists gathered in the US city of New York to denounce President Barack Obama's plan to launch airstrikes in Syria in the name of fighting ISIL terrorism. The anti-war protest, held on Friday in Times Square, was organized by the International Action Center, Press TVs correspondent in New York reports. Syrian-Americans, Iraqi-...

[caption id="attachment_116202" align="alignright" width="225"] US Secretary of State John Kerry boards his plane at Queen Alia Airport in Amman on September 11, 2014 as he travels to Saudi Arabia (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)[/caption] Ankara (AFP) - US Secretary of State John Kerry is to fly to Ankara Friday for urgent talks after Turkey refused ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:   Iran voices doubt over sincerity of US-led coalition against ISIL Irans foreign ministry spokeswoman questioned the sincerity of the US-led coalition against the ISIL terrorist group.   First round of Iran-EU3 talks winds up in Vienna The first round of nuclear talks ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Irans foreign ministry spokeswoman questioned the sincerity of the US-led coalition against the ISIL terrorist group. The international coalition against ISIL which came to life after the NATO summit in Wales and is being shaped now, faces serious ambiguities and there is considerable doubt about its sincere and fundamental fight ...

[caption id="attachment_115926" align="alignright" width="227"] President Barack Obama talks with House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014. The president met with Congressional leaders to discuss options for combating the Islamic State. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)[/caption] WASHINGTON ...

U.S. President Barack Obama said recently that he had no strategy as yet toward the Islamic State but that he would present a plan on Wednesday. It is important for a president to know when he has no strategy. It is not necessarily wise to announce it, as friends will be frightened and enemies delighted. A president must know what it is he does not ...

[caption id="attachment_115546" align="alignright" width="234"] Barack Obama will soon announce his plan to tackle Isis, which may include sending more support to Kurdish peshmerga troops fighting Isis in Iraq. Photograph: Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters[/caption] The Arab League calls for members to support efforts against Isis, as Obama seeks to widen coalition ...

The United States has begun carrying out air strikes near Iraqs Haditha Dam which was under threat from Islamic State in Iraq and Syria militants, a U.S defense official said on Sunday. At the request of the Iraqi government and in keeping with our mission to protect U.S. personnel and facilities, U.S. military planes have begun striking ISIL terrorists ...

[caption id="attachment_113665" align="alignright" width="225"] "Our message to anyone who harms our people is simple. America does not forget," Obama said.[/caption] The US will fight the Islamic State until it is no longer a force in the Middle East, President Barack Obama said on Wednesday.Our objective is clear and that is to degrade and destroy ...

[caption id="attachment_114805" align="alignright" width="259"] American journalist Steven Sotloff[/caption] American journalist Steven Sotloff, who wasrecently executed in Syria by the ISIL Takfiri group, was reportedly in the crisis-hit country to report the militant groups victories. On Tuesday, the ISIL released a video that purported to show ...

Irans Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani saysthe US military air campaign against ISIL Takfiri terrorists in the region are futile asairstrikescannot eradicate terrorism that has taken refuge in homes. The hullabaloo caused now by the West over fighting the ISIL group is wrong as airstrikes cannot eradicate terrorism hidden in houses, Larijani said on Wednesday,...

[caption id="attachment_113665" align="alignright" width="195"] "Our message to anyone who harms our people is simple. America does not forget," Obama said.[/caption] US President Barack Obama has promised to address the threat posed by the ISIL militant group and their beheading of American journalist James Foley. Obama said on Tuesday that the ...