Moqtada al-Sadr won’t be Iraq’s next prime minister, but he may very well decide who is. It’s a striking outcome for the Shia cleric who forged a reputation as a radical in the insurgency he led against the U.S. after the invasion of 2003, and who then defined himself as an ...
— Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, whose country is the latest to join NATO. — Bettie Mae Fikes, a singer and civil rights advocate present during “Bloody Sunday” in Selma, Alabama. — Maria Shriver, the journalist and former California first lady (and relative of longshot pres...
Israel is determined to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday at the opening plenum of the Knesset’s winter session. He touted the IDF’s successful airstrike against Iran’s conventional military targets, including its production of...
The fact that Ben-Gvir oversees the police ... when the criminal is the very minister in charge of the police, who can you turn to? The police. Democracies generally have laws protecting police operations from political...
CAIRO, March 14 (Xinhua) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) on Saturday hailed Iranian government's efforts to combat the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, which has claimed the lives of 611 people in the Islamic republic. During a visit to Iran, the worst-hit country by the epidemic...
Rome— An Italian journalist detained in Iran for three weeks and whose fate became intertwined with that of an Iranian engineer wanted by the United States was freed Wednesday and is heading home, Italian officials announced.A plane carryingCecilia Salatook off from Tehran after "intensive work ...
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Who was the first Chief of Army Staff of Pakistan? The Pakistani Army and Pakistan: Ever since its inception in 1947, Pakistan has been ruled directly and indirectly by the Pakistani Army. The Chief of the Army Staff is the most important person in Pakistan and it is he who rules the co...
Iraqi Prime Minister Press Office via AP "Soleimani's death is a game-changer for the Middle East," said Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow and Iran specialist at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. "For over a decade, there has barely been a Middle Eastern hotspot that Solei...
Image:Ismail Haniyeh in Iran in June 2023 As a prominent member of the movement that became Hamas in the late 1980s, Ismail Haniyeh was widely considered the group's overall leader until his reported death in July 2024. He was imprisoned in 1989 as part of the Israeli response to the ...