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What's behind rising US-Iran tensions in the Gulf
May 15, 2019 (AFP)
Here's what has happened: - What assets has the US deployed? - On May 5, Trump's hawkish National Security Advisor John Bolton announced the deployment of the U...
US, Iran say not seeking war as tensions spike
May 14, 2019 (AFP)
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei meanwhile insisted the showdown between the Islamic republic and the United States was a test of resolve rather tha...
British general in Iraq says no elevated Iran threat
May 14, 2019 (AFP)
"There has been no increased threat from Iranian-backed forces in Iraq and Syria," Major General Chris Ghika, a British spokesman for the force, told reporters ...
US, coalition allies appear divided on Iran threat
May 14, 2019 (AFP)
Major General Chris Ghika, a British spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve, the coalition fighting the Islamic State group, said that they did not sense any ...
US, Russia 'share same objective' on N.Korea: Pompeo
May 14, 2019 (AFP)
"I think we share the same objective and I hope that we can find ways that we can work together," Pompeo told reporters after the talks late Tuesday in the Russ...
Netanyahu stands by Trump against Iran 'aggression'
May 14, 2019 (AFP)
"Israel and all the countries of the region and all the countries who seek peace in the world should stand together with the United States against Iranian aggre...
Arms on Putin's agenda before Pompeo meeting
May 13, 2019 (AFP)
Pompeo will visit Putin in Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi for the highest-level talks between Moscow and Washington in nearly a year. Ahead of the negotiati...
Pompeo visits Brussels as Europe meets on Iran
May 13, 2019 (AFP)
Pompeo is set to meet his counterparts from Britain, France and Germany -- the three European signatories to the 2015 accord that curbed Iran's nuclear ambition...
Europe warns US against Iran escalation as tensions mount
May 13, 2019 (AFP)
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made a last-minute change of plan scrapping an expected Moscow trip to instead visit Brussels and meet his counterparts from B...
Unification support falls in S. Korea as talks stall
May 13, 2019 (AFP)
Despite sharing a common language and ethnicity and centuries of history, North and South Korea have become radically different societies in recent decades. Rul...
Trump warns that if Iran 'do anything', they 'will suffer greatly'
May 13, 2019 (AFP)
"I'm hearing little stories about Iran," Trump told reporters as he hosted Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban at the White House. "If they do anything, it wo...
Tehran lawmaker says move on nuclear curbs shows Iran 'not weak'
May 12, 2019 (AFP)
"The timely decision of the Islamic republic regarding its commitments in the (nuclear deal) showed that Iran is not in a position of weakness," said Ali Mottah...
US sends naval strike group as tensions rise with Iran
May 11, 2019 (AFP)
In response to alleged threats from Iran, the USS Arlington, which transports marines, amphibious vehicles, conventional landing craft and rotary aircraft, and ...
North Korea's missile tests not 'breach of trust': Trump
May 11, 2019 (AFP)
Pyongyang fired two short-range missiles Thursday following an earlier drill the previous Saturday -- the first in 18 months. The North had not launched any mis...
French FM urges Iran to show 'political maturity' over US nuclear deal pullout
May 11, 2019 (AFP)
"Iran has had a bad reaction, faced with a bad US decision to withdraw from the Vienna agreements and impose sanctions," Le Drian said in an interview published...
North Korea treads fine line with missile launch: analysts
May 10, 2019 (AFP)
Pyongyang fired two short-range missiles Thursday -- following an earlier drill on Saturday -- having not launched any since November 2017, shortly before leade...
'Nobody's happy' about N. Korea missile launch, says Trump
May 10, 2019 (AFP)
Trump's second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi in February broke up without an agreement or even a joint statement as the two failed to rea...
B-52s, Marine expeditionary unit head to Middle East as tensions rise with Iran
May 10, 2019 (UPI)
The USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group was deployed this week in response to what Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan told a Senate Appropriations D...
Trump moves to strangle Iran economy as nuclear deal withers
May 09, 2019 (AFP)
On the anniversary of Trump's withdrawal from the accord he denounced as "horrible," tensions were soaring as the United States deployed an aircraft carrier str...
US keeps raising Iran pressure, but to what end?
May 09, 2019 (AFP)
But even if the US campaign has succeeded in causing economic suffering in Iran, the broader objectives remain vague, with no clear end-game on how to wind down...
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