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Iran is known as the most powerful country in the region, thanks to its domestic capabilities and reliance on people, unlike certain neighbors that have spent tens of billions of dollars on the purchase of foreign arms, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said. Addressing a program at the University …

Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May says she wants all European Union citizens lawfully living in Britain to remain after Brexit in 2019, promising a streamlined system for them to register to be able to stay. “They’ve made a huge contribution to our country, that’s why we want them and their …

The Russian military has announced that armed groups in Syria’s militant-held Eastern Ghouta are preventing civilians from exiting the conflict zone. In a statement released on Wednesday, the Russian military announced that talks aimed at peacefully resolving the situation in Eastern Ghouta near the capital Damascus had broken down. “Calls by the Russian ceasefire …

Russia has flatly dismissed as “absurd” the indictment of 13 Russian nationals by the US Justice Department for allegedly interfering in the 2016 US presidential election. “Thirteen people interfered in the US elections? Thirteen people against billions budgets of special agencies? Against intelligence and counter-espionage, against the newest technologies? Absurd? …

Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani says his peninsular Persian Gulf country has “preserved its sovereignty” months after a “futile” diplomatic blockade was imposed against Doha by a Saudi-led group of Arab states. “It has been a futile crisis manufactured by our neighbors, some of whom are major …

The United States will be a main absentee from plans to contribute to Iraq’s finances, US officials say as Baghdad seeks to rebuild the country following a devastating battle against the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group. US officials at a donors’ conference held for Iraq’s reconstitution in Kuwait said Monday that …

Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage has warned that if UK Prime Minister Theresa May allows Brexit to be halted by supporters of European Union membership, Britain will be thrust into its gravest “constitutional crisis” since World War ll. Farage, 53, who as UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader convinced May’s predecessor, David …

Nearly one in five people working in Britain’s Parliament were sexually harassed or witnessed inappropriate behavior in the past year, said a report commissioned after a series of sex scandals at Westminster. The report, published on Thursday, called for a new complaints procedure along with radical change of a culture …

Britain’s pending divorce from the European Union (EU) Is already taking its toll on the country’s armed forces, warns a leading British military specialist. Professor Malcolm Chalmers, the deputy director general of the London-based military think tank the Royal United Services Institute, warned in a report that Brexit had put …

Germany has granted asylum to four former Turkish military forces, including one whom Ankara accuses of assuming a leading role in the country’s 2016 failed coup, amid ongoing tensions between the two countries.   Turkey accuses former Turkish colonel and then head of the Ankara military academy Ilham P., whose …