Washington: President Donald Trump has declared that a new nuclear agreement currently being negotiated between the United States and Iran will exceed the terms of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). In a social media post on Monday, …

Manila: Thousands of American and Philippine troops, joined for the first time by a significant contingent of Japanese forces, have commenced their annual military exercises on Monday amidst the ongoing Middle East conflict. The war games are strategi…

Yerevan: Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian recently announced that the Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity (TRIPP) had entered its implementation phase. Framed as a potential breakthrough after decades of conflict between Armenia …

Tehran: Irans Khatam al-Anbiya military headquarters has confirmed an attack by the US military on a ship in the Gulf of Oman in a statement carried by the semi-official Tasnim news agency. Tehran vowed to retaliate “soon” against what it describes as…

Paris: Speaking with FRANCE 24’s Jennie Shin, Rosemary Kelanic, Director of the Middle East programme at the think tank Defense Priorities, says that US President Donald Trump “has boxed himself into a corner”, explaining that “this war has failed, th…

Tehran: Iran’s Internet shutdown has now surpassed 1,248 hours or 52 days, making it the longest national-level blackout since Libya’s outage of nearly six months during the Arab Spring in 2011. But the comparison understates the scale: Iran’s populat…

Tehran: Iran said it had yet to decide whether to attend a new round of peace negotiations with the United States, as Washington’s delegation prepared to depart for Pakistan on Monday. The uncertainty over the talks on ending the war that engulfed the…