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UN Issues 'Red Alert' as RSF Threatens Half a Million People in Sudan's el-Obeid

New Delhi, July 4 -- The power station is gone. The fuel depots are gone. In el-Obeid, the capital of Sudan's North Kordofan state, water has been running short for weeks across a city of 500,000 resi... Read More


Yemen's Houthis Threaten Saudi Airports After Alleged Airspace Violation Over Sanaa

The confrontation, July 4 -- More than 200 wounded and ailing Yemenis were aboard the civilian Iranian aircraft that Saudi warplanes allegedly tried to stop from landing at Sanaa International Airport... Read More


Iran Agreed to 'Just About Everything.' Nuclear Talks Haven't Started Yet.

DOHA, July 3 -- On Wednesday afternoon, as US and Iranian negotiators wrapped up two days of indirect talks in Qatar, President Trump told reporters that Iran had agreed to "just about everything we n... Read More


Iran Suspended Its Hormuz Shipping Tolls for 60 Days. The Window Closes Around August 16.

DUBAI, July 3 -- The Strait of Hormuz has two transit regimes now. One is the corridor Iran's Revolutionary Guard controls, where ships submit documentation, accept IRGC-escorted passage through a des... Read More


Damascus Cafe Bombing Kills Ten Near Syria's Palace of Justice

New Delhi, July 3 -- DAMASCUS - On Friday morning, mourners carried the coffin of Fathi Muhammad Saeed Qabbani through the Al-Midan neighborhood of Damascus and buried him alongside three others kille... Read More


The Nuclear Fatwa Died With Ali Khamenei. His Son Has Said Nothing to Replace It.

TEHRAN, July 3 -- The fatwa is gone. Ali Khamenei's religious ruling against nuclear weapons, the one Iranian negotiators cited in every round of talks for two decades, died when he did on February 28... Read More


Iran Says No Comprehensive Deal Without IDF Withdrawal From Lebanon. The US Disagrees.

DUBAI, July 3 -- The day after the Islamabad Memorandum was signed, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told reporters in Dubai that the war had not fully come to an end. Not while Israeli forces ... Read More


Pakistan's PM Came. Modi Didn't. What Khamenei's Funeral Guest List Reveals About Iran.

TEHRAN, July 3 -- Pakistan's prime minister flew to Tehran. India's prime minister did not. That single diplomatic arithmetic - who attended the July 3 ceremony for foreign dignitaries at Khamenei's s... Read More


Iran's IRGC Commander Emerges from Five Months in Hiding at Khamenei Funeral

TEHRAN, July 3 -- The general Israel spent the better part of five months trying to kill sat publicly alongside Ali Khamenei's coffin on Thursday night. Ahmad Vahidi, commander-in-chief of Iran's Isl... Read More


Bahrain Counts 808 Attacks, Demands UN Action. Waltz Tells Iran Trump's Patience 'Not Unlimited.'

New Delhi, July 3 -- Three civilians are dead in Bahrain. Another 465 have been wounded. Since February 28, when the wider confrontation began, Iran has fired 203 ballistic missiles and 605 armed dron... Read More