The Pentagon is sending the aircraft carrier USS John Stennis to the Persian Gulf region four months ahead of schedule for an eight-month deployment – twice as long as originally planned, defense officials told...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
(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...
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...
ISLAMABAD – The first trucks carrying supplies to American and NATO troops in Afghanistan have crossed the Pakistani border after a seven-month-long closure of the supply routes by Pakistan ended earlier this week. The...
One-and-a-half years after the start of the Arab Spring, Islamists have taken power in some countries, Gulf rulers are suppressing dissent with cash and Syria is descending into civil war. The Arab revolutions are...
Egypt’s new government is sparking growing outrage in the U.S. for its attempts to win the release of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind cleric behind the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center....
