The US administration has imposed sanctions on Hong Kong’s leader and a number of other key officials over a security law that China enacted for the semi-autonomous region in late June.
Canada will impose countermeasures, including dollar-for-dollar retaliatory tariffs against the United States, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a statement.
China has warned the United States against taking “dangerous moves,” on Taiwan after Washington announced it was sending a senior official on a diplomatic visit to the self-ruled island.
Brian Hook, the US State Department’s hawkish special envoy for Iran, is quitting his job amid Washington’s polarizing campaign to extend the conventional arms embargo on Tehran.
Sirens warning of incoming rockets have been sounded in northern part of Israel near Lebanon, in what the Israeli army later said was a false alarm amid heightened tensions between Tel Aviv and ...
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has praised the role of journalists in countering fake news through their “relentless pursuit of reality” at a time when “people’s hope and trust is being ...
Japan is marking 75 years since the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, with ceremonies downsized due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The massive blasts at Beirut Port killed at least 137 people, and injured more than 5,000 others, with dozens others still missing, Lebanese Health Minister said Thursday.
Iran’s highest-ranking military commander voiced the Armed Forces’ readiness to help Lebanon handle the situation in the wake of a fatal blast that has displaced some 300,000 citizens in Beirut.
China says it has no intention of ratcheting up tensions with the United States and engaging in a diplomatic war with Washington.
American intelligence agencies have reportedly spotted what appears to be an undeclared nuclear site near Saudi Arabia’s capital city of Riyadh, scrutinizing attempts by the kingdom to process ...
Iran has condemned an oil agreement signed between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militant group and an American company as “a violation of Syrian sovereignty,” saying such a deal ...
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has approved a “new political map” of the country that marks the Indian-controlled part of the disputed Kashmir region as Pakistani territory.
Tehran has begun sending food supplies and medical aid to Lebanon, with senior Iranian officials voicing readiness to provide all sorts of humanitarian assistance to Beirut, which is reeling from a ...
US President Donald Trump’s former aide has slammed him for “spitballing” on the cause of a huge explosion in Beirut.
World countries offered condolences to Lebanon as they voiced readiness to help Lebanon after the devastating blasts at Beirut Port on Tuesday.
China has suspended its extradition agreement with New Zealand in response to Wellington suspending its existing extradition treaty with Hong Kong.
An accident during a military training has left eight US service members presumably dead, according to the Marine Corpse.
Hezbollah Secretary General, Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah, will deliver a televised speech on Wednesday August 5, at 20:30 (Beirut Timing), Hezbollah Media Relations announced in a statement.
Iran has imposed sanctions on an aide to US President Donald Trump’s former national security advisor, John Bolton, who is also a current member of the so-called Foundation for Defense of ...
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order requiring federal agencies to prioritise hiring American residents (as well as green card holders) over foreign workers. The order also requires ...
Russia's permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna says Iran’s nuclear capacity is “absolutely legitimate” as it fits within the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry, which recently announced the apprehension of the ringleader of a US-based anti-Iran terrorist group, has rejected reports alleging that the person in question was ...
An official in the US government pandemic response team on Sunday affirmed that there is zero evidence that hydroxychloroquine is a workable treatment for the COVID-19 coronavirus, despite President ...
