US sets up new base in Syria’s Manbij region after Turkish threats: SDF official
An official from the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militant group says US military forces established a new base in Syria's Kurdish-populated northern town of Manbij months after Turkish authorities ...
Saudi Arabia to build nuclear bomb if Iran does so: FM
Praising the US for abandoning the Iran nuclear deal, the Saudi foreign minister has threatened that the kingdom will make nuclear bombs if the Islamic Republic moves to develop an ...
NIOC Raises Oil Prices for June Loading
State-owned National Iranian Oil Company raised the official selling prices for all its crude oil grades loading in June from Kharg Island and bound for Asia, a company source said ...
Iraq, BP Sign Kirkuk Oilfield Contract
Iraq’s state-run North Oil Company signed an agreement with BP on Monday to triple output from the Kirkuk fields in the north of the country, Oil Minister Jabar al-Luaibi said. ...
Abbas urges Latin America not to follow in US footsteps on embassy relocation
In Venezuela, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called on Latin American states not to copy the contentious decision by the US to relocate its embassy from Tel Aviv to Israeli-occupied ...
Qatar Pushing Ahead With Energy Expansion, Acquisition Plans
State energy giant Qatar Petroleum will push ahead with its production expansion and foreign asset acquisition strategy to be on par with oil majors, despite a regional political and economic ...
Erdogan denounces French manifesto calling for removal of Qur’an passages
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has denounced an anti-Islam manifesto published last month by 300 French figures calling for parts of the Qur’an, the holy book of Muslims, to be ...
Ayatollah Khamenei to Trump: ‘You cannot do a damn thing’
In response to Donald Trump who on Tuesday withdrew the U.S. from the nuclear deal and made threats against Iran, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei said, “You (Trump) ...
Angry at YouTube’s Unfair Policies, Iranian Vegan Wounds 3, Kills Herself
An Iranian-American woman named Nasim Aghdam, a vegan and animal rights activist with lots of followers on Instagram, has been identified as the person who opened fire on the YouTube ...
Senior Iran official urges regional states to end rivalries
The head of Iran's Strategic Council on Foreign Relations says despite the opportunities in the Indian Ocean Rim, unfortunately the rivalries between some countries have had negative impacts on the ...








