Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is threatening to escalate fighting against Syrian government forces following Monday’s killing of Turkish soldiers. The warning comes in the face of calls for restraint from Moscow, but Erdogan is facing growing domestic pressure for an uncompromising stance.
A former leader of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps says Iran has been looking for an excuse to ‘raze Tel Aviv to the ground,’ and has one now following the killing of Qassem Soleimani in January.
The World Health Organization said on Monday that a rash of coronavirus cases spotted outside China could be ‘the spark that becomes a bigger fire,’ as the death toll reached 908 and surpassed the SARS outbreak of 2002 and 2003.
A senior NATO official expressed concern about the rise of China as a global power in a speech recently, calling on the communist regime to join existing missile agreements with the US and Russia.
The Trump administration is reportedly considering a novel source of leverage against the European Union in seeking a trade deal: ‘carousel’ retaliation, meaning tariffs applied to a shifting set of products.
Iran has failed another attempt at launching a satellite into space.
The White House on Thursday confirmed the death of the leader of an Al Qaeda-linked group during an airstrike in Yemen last month.
Zhan Qingyuan, director of pneumonia prevention and treatment at the China-Japan Friendship Hospital, said even people who have recovered may not be immune to the virus.
A locust swarm of biblical proportions has swept into Kenya and other parts of Africa, as the UN says that $76 million will be needed to combat the plague, which experts say could grow by five hundred times by June if not contained.
About 20,000 U.S. troops will soon begin flooding into Europe as part of a massive, months-long military exercise that has been compared to the massive drills of the Cold War era, drills that were meant to help NATO forces beat back a hypothetical invasion from the Soviet Union.
The new leader of the Iranian Quds Force who is stepping into the shoes of slain terrorist mastermind Qassem Soleimani has met with Palestinian leaders to assure them that Iran will do everything in its power to oppose the recently released ‘Deal of the Century’ peace plan.
The fact that the European Union will insist on a level playing field in its future relations with the United Kingdom should come as ‘no surprise’ to the UK, said the EU’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, in Brussels.
Iran is preparing to launch a new scientific observation satellite in the ‘coming days,’ the head of the country’s national space agency told AFP on Saturday.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday declared a global emergency over the outbreak of a novel coronavirus in China, and U.S. health authorities reported the first confirmed case in the United States of a patient with no recent history of travel to Wuhan, the outbreak epicenter.
The first chapter of the Brexit saga was formally cleared for completion on Wednesday, when the European Parliament endorsed the latest Brexit deal following an emotional debate.
President Trump signed a new trade deal with Mexico and Canada on Wednesday. The new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) replaces the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
U.S. troops reportedly blocked a Russian military convoy from reaching strategic oil fields in northeastern Syria on Sunday – the fourth confrontation between the two sides in Syria in less than two weeks.
British scientists say they have accidentally discovered a new type of immune cell which may help in developing a therapy to treat all cancers.
Several rockets targeted the U.S. Embassy in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, on Sunday evening, with some reportedly hitting the building itself for the first time in several years.
The top U.S. commander who oversees missions in the Middle East said that newly deployed troops might remain in the region for ‘quite a while.’