Anti-government protesters burned an Iranian consulate in southern Iraq for a third time on Tuesday, as the country’s political leaders continued talks over selecting a new prime minister following weeks of widespread unrest.
The House signaled its opposition Tuesday to allowing Russia to resume attending summits of the Group of Seven nations.
The US has pledged its support to democratic revolutions in South America, while warning against Russian interference.
Islamic State claimed responsibility for the London Bridge attack last week that has temporarily suspended campaigning for the British election.
A huge crowd took to the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday, some driven back by tear gas, to demand more democracy and an investigation into the use of force to crack down on the six-month-long anti-government demonstrations.
After he was imprisoned in 2012 for taking part in a terrorist plot that sought to bomb the London stock exchange—and also had a list of targets that included the home of then-London mayor Boris Johnson and the U.S. embassy—Usman Khan wrote a letter saying that he had since discovered that ‘the views’ he carried at the time ‘were not according to Islam and its teachings’ and that he wanted to take a ‘Deradicalization Course’ so he could live his life “as a good Muslim and also a good British citizen.”
Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdel-Mahdi will step down following calls from Iraq’s top Shi’ite cleric for him to vacate his post.
Germany is slated to designate Hezbollah as a terrorist group.
Italian police on Thursday uncovered a widespread plan to create a new Nazi party.
President Donald Trump paid a surprise Thanksgiving visit to Afghanistan, where he announced the U.S. and Taliban have been engaged in ongoing peace talks and said he believes the Taliban want a cease-fire.
North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles on Thursday, according to South Korea’s military.
Turkey plans on testing its Russian-bought S-400 missile defense system Monday.
Iraqi protestors burned down the Iranian consulate in Najaf, southern Iraq.
Nearly 40 people have been killed in Iraq on one of the bloodiest days since anti-government protests began last month, medics and officials say.
Turkish F-16 warplanes will fly over the country’s capital Ankara on Monday to test its new Russian S-400 missile defenses, Turkish media said, despite pressure from Washington for Turkey to drop the system.
President Trump is expected to sign legislation backing pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong and authorizing sanctions, according to former officials familiar with his thinking, even as his administration pursues a trade deal with China.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the weekend denied that the U.S. pressure campaign on Iran was responsible for the economic grievances that sparked the current wave of protests, saying regime policies predating the restoration of sanctions were to blame.
‘America and Israel are common enemies of the Muslim world,’ the commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami, said Thursday during a meeting with the chief of staff of Pakistan’s military, Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa.
A senior State Department official has lashed out at Turkey and Egypt for military deals they have struck with Russia, warning of sanctions against the U.S. allies if they don’t reverse course.
Members of Iran’s Basij militia made interesting claims in the wake of nationwide protests against fuel hikes over the weekend.