The Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has acknowledged for the first time that thousands of people were killed during the protests that rocked Iran over the last two weeks, The Guardian reports. In a speech on Thursday, Khamenei said that thousands of people had been killed, “some in an inhuman, savage manner”, and…
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and US President Donald Trump discussed the security situation in Greenland and the Arctic in a phone call on Sunday. “We will continue working on this, and I look forward to seeing him in Davos later this week,” Rutte said in a post on US social media company X….
US President Donald Trump has invited his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to join as a co-founder of the “Peace Council” in the Gaza Strip. “On January 16, 2026, the US President, as founding chairman of the ‘Peace Council,’ sent a letter inviting our President to join as a co-founder of the council,” the…
“Starting today, after the Cairo meeting, we will move to Gaza and begin providing relief to our people,” said Ali Shaath, the head of the newly formed Palestinian technocratic body tasked with administering post-war Gaza, in an exclusive interview with Al-Qahera News on friday after the committee held its first meeting in the Egyptian capital….
Intense diplomatic efforts to dissuade Donald Trump from striking Iran, including communication between the Islamic republic and the US administration, have de-escalated tensions in the Gulf, according to five people close to governments in the region. Countries including Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, Oman and Egypt have been urging restraint from the White House, warning…
Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, speaking after leaving the White House, said a US takeover of Greenland was “absolutely not necessary,” Euronews reports. The deployment of European troops in Greenland has no impact on US President Donald Trump’s plans to take control of the Arctic island from Denmark, the White House said on…
Reuters. US President Donald Trump, who has struggled throughout his presidency to end Russia’s war in Ukraine despite campaign boasts that he could end it in a day, said Zelenskiy is the main impediment to resolving the four-year-old war. Trump has frequently criticized both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Zelenskiy but seemed more downbeat…
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi blamed any killings that have taken place on an “Israeli plot” intended to create a large number of casualties. The claim came during an interview on Fox News’ “Special Report with Brett Baier” Wednesday evening. He also said that “now there is calm and we are in full…
US President Donald Trump has said the US will take “very strong action” against Iran if it executes protesters, as rights groups say more than 2,400 anti-government demonstrators have been killed in a violent crackdown by Iranian authorities, BBC reports. Relatives of 26-year-old Erfan Soltani, who was detained last week, told BBC Persian he…
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio addressed the joint statement on the publication of the Armenia–U.S. implementation framework for the “Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity” project in a post on his social media page. “Today, Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan and I issued a statement on the framework document for the implementation…
Reuters. Venezuela’s government said on Monday (January 12) that 116 prisoners have been released “in the past few hours,” according to a statement from the Penitentiary Services Ministry, though rights groups reported a lower figure. The government statement follows three days of reports from rights organizations about delays in the releases, which the Foro…
Reuters/CCTV. U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that any country doing business with Iran will pay a tariff rate of 25 percent on any business conducted with the United States. The order is “effective immediately,” Trump announced on Truth Social, adding that it is “final and conclusive.” The statement marks the latest escalation…
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said she ruled out a U.S. military intervention to combat drug cartels, following a “good conversation” on Monday with President Donald Trump on security and drug trafficking. In her daily press conference, Sheinbaum said she declined offers of military action from Trump and “ruled out” U.S. military intervention in Mexico….
Iran has warned the US not to attack over protests that have rocked the country, as Donald Trump weighed the options for a response from Washington, with the reported death toll from the demonstrations soaring to the hundreds, The Guardian reports. At least 538 people have been killed in the violence surrounding demonstrations, according…
Syrian security forces and demining teams have entered the Sheikh Maqsoud district, which had earlier been brought under the control of the Syrian Army and completely cleared of armed presence. This was reported by ‘Lurer’ correspondent Zarmik Poghikyan. The Aleppo Operations Command has called on the civilian population of the district to stay in…
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro has told the BBC that he believes there is now a “real threat” of US military action against Colombia, BBC reports. Petro said the US is treating other nations as part of a US “empire”. It comes after Trump said a military operation in Colombia “sounds good”. Petro said that…
Nickolay Mladenov, who is set to become the Director of the Board of Peace for Gaza, met Friday with Hussein Al-Sheikh, Vice President of the Palestinian Authority and Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee of the PLO, Al-Sheikh posted on X. On Thursday, the Office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reported that the…
Reuters. Venezuela’s interior minister Diosdado Cabello said late on Wednesday (January 8) that 100 people died in the U.S. attack which removed President Nicolas Maduro from power on Saturday (January 3). Caracas has not previously given a number for those killed, but the army posted a list of 23 names of its dead. Venezuelan…
Reuters/CCTV. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday met with Venezuelan Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Samuel Moncada. During their meeting, the secretary‑general reiterated his publicly stated position on the U.S. military strikes on Venezuela on January 3 that led to the forcible seizure of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife. …
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the United States would “always” stand by the NATO military alliance, amid alarm among European allies over his stated aim of controlling Greenland, DPA reports. “We will always be there for NATO, even if they won’t be there for us,” Trump wrote on his social media…
The U.S. seized a Russian-flagged oil tanker that was being shadowed by a Russian submarine on Wednesday, after a more than two-week-long pursuit across the Atlantic as part of a U.S. “blockade” of Venezuelan oil exports, two U.S. officials told Reuters. This appeared to be the first time in recent memory that the U.S….
Reuters. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday (January 5) he told U.S. President Donald Trump in a phone call that Venezuela must not be dragged into instability after the toppling of its leader Nicolas Maduro. Speaking after a cabinet meeting, Erdogan also said Ankara would stand with the people of Venezuela. He…
Reuters. The shopkeepers’ protest continued on Tuesday (January 6) as eyewitness videos showed protestors throwing gas canisters amid clashes with Iranian security forces in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar. Reuters was able to confirm the location of the videos by buildings and road layout which matched satellite and file imagery of the area. The date…
Deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were flown from a Brooklyn jail to Manhattan, New York, in the U.S., on Monday (January 5) to face drug charges at a federal courthouse, Reuters reports. Maduro was ousted in the biggest U.S. intervention in Latin America since the 1989 invasion of Panama,…
Maduro landed Saturday evening at a small airport in New York following the middle-of-the-night operation that extracted him and his wife, Cilia Flores, from their home in a military base in Venezuela’s capital city of Caracas, Euronews reports. Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro has arrived in the United States and was brought to the Metropolitan…
U.S. District Attorney Pam Bondi posted on X on Saturday (January 3) announcing that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores have been indicted in the Southern District of New York on charges including narco‑terrorism conspiracy, Reuters reports. The U.S. attacked Venezuela and deposed of Maduro on Saturday, President Donald Trump said,…
The European Union urged the adherence to international law after U.S. President Donald Trump announced the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro early Saturday, Politico reports. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Maduro and his wife “will soon face the full wrath of American justice” after they were flown out of Venezuela following a…
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has been captured, after the United States carried out a “large scale strike” against the country, U.S. President Donald Trump announced in a social media post on Saturday (January 3), Reuters reports. Maduro and his wife have been “captured and flown out of the Country”, Trump said in his post…
Starting early this morning, airstrikes were carried out on Venezuela’s capital, Caracas. Air defense systems were activated. Explosions were heard in the city, fires broke out, and entire neighborhoods were left without electricity. It is assumed that the strikes were carried out by the United States. According to media reports, targets included, among others,…
“We are building peace not only with the Government of Armenia but also with its people,” said Hikmet Hajiyev, Assistant to the President of Azerbaijan. According to him, Baku is consistently strengthening its economic interdependence with Yerevan by supplying petroleum products and facilitating the export of grain to the Armenian market. Referring to…
