US Navy ship ‘fires on boat in Gulf’
A US ship has fired on a boat off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, US officials say. The USNS Rappahannock fired on a vessel after it ignored warnings and rapidly approached the...
Category: The Middle East
Egyptians pelt Clinton motorcade with tomatoes
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (Reuters) – Protesters threw tomatoes and shoes at U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s motorcade on Sunday during her first visit to Egypt since the election of IslamistPresident Mohamed Mursi. A tomato struck an Egyptian official in the...
In Pakistan’s largest city, ‘Old Glory’ is flammable and profitable
KARACHI, Pakistan – They call it Pakistan’s melting pot. Karachi, estimated to be home to over 18 million people, is the Islamic Republic’s largest and perhaps most cosmopolitan city. Skyscrapers stand next to paramilitary barracks...
Hillary Clinton in Israel for talks after Egypt visit
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Israel for talks focusing on Iran, Syria, the Middle East peace process and also Egypt. She met President Shimon Peres for an hour, ahead of talks...
Russia sends warships to Syria
Russia despatched a flotilla of warships to its naval base in the Syrian port of Tartus on Tuesday in an apparent show of support for President Bashar al-Assad. Two destroyers and three amphibious landing...
Gulf sabers rattle as Iran sanctions bite
(Reuters) – Iran and the United States might be talking up their readiness for war in the Gulf but beneath the rhetoric, all sides appear keen to avoid conflict and prevent accidental escalation – at least...
Clinton: Russia and China will pay a price because they are holding up progress
(Reuters) – As a Syrian general who was a personal friend of Bashar al-Assad fled for France, Hillary Clinton urged Assad’s enemies meeting in Paris on Friday to make Russia and China “pay a price” for...
Top Iran official: Time has come for Israel, U.S. to vanish from world
Iran’s Press TV quotes parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani as saying that U.S., ‘Zionist regime’ are the prime sources of tyranny and gloom in modern times. The time has come for the disappearance of Israel...
Syria files: Wikileaks releases 2m ‘embarrassing’ emails
The whistle-blowing website Wikileaks says it is releasing more than two million emails from Syrian political figures, ministries and corporations. “Ground-breaking” news stories derived from the “Syria files” will be published over the next...
Iran submarine plan may fuel Western nuclear worries
(Reuters) – Iran’s announcement that it plans to build its first nuclear-powered submarine is stoking speculation it could serve as a pretext for the Islamic state to produce highly enriched uranium and move closer...
