Month: January 1970

Saudi Arabia and Iran have given each other just two months to prove they are serious about Friday’s agreement to normalize ties. The two are likely to be discussing ways … Read More

About 5% of the country’s population took to the streets in the tenth consecutive week of protests against plans by the government of Benjamin Netanyahu to overhaul the country’s judicial … Read More

When Saudi Arabia and Iran buried the hatchet in Beijing on Friday, it was a game-changing moment both for a Middle East shaped by their decades-old rivalry, and for China’s … Read More

The United Nations has released a plan to offload 1 million barrels of oil off a rusting supertanker that has been moored off the coast of Yemen for more than … Read More

Saudi Arabia and Iran have agreed to resume diplomatic relations and reopen embassies, Iranian state media said on Friday.

Saudi Arabia has told the United States that it may normalize relations with Israel if Washington agrees to provide Riyadh with security guarantees and help it develop a civilian nuclear … Read More

A Taliban governor in northern Afghanistan has been killed by an explosion in his office, police officials have told CNN.

Iran’s longest-held American prisoner has appealed to US President Joe Biden to ramp up efforts to secure his release, in a rare interview with CNN from inside Iran’s notorious Evin … Read More

Protesters blocked the road to one of the main terminals of Israel’s central international airport on Thursday, intensifying a nationwide movement against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to weaken … Read More

Turkey’s opposition on Monday announced Kemal Kilicdaroglu as the presidential candidate to run against two-decade ruler Recep Tayyip Erdogan in an upcoming election that could change the course of the … Read More