Pakistan’s PM will arrive at the White house on Monday for his first meeting with U.S. President Trump as the countries look to revive relations and extricate America from its nearly 18 years of war in Afghanistan.
Sunday, 21 July , 2019From the administration that brought you the camps, a faith-based effort to undercut America’s role in defending people’s dignity.
Saturday, 13 July , 2019The first half of 2019 has been a bloody one in Saudi Arabia, with more than one prisoner executed by the government each day on average.
Tuesday, 9 July , 2019The Trump name graces apartment towers, hotels and golf courses. Now it is the namesake of a tiny Israeli settlement “Trump Heights” in the Israel-controlled Golan Heights.
Monday, 17 June , 2019Opposition to President Donald Trump’s Saudi Arabia policy and use of executive power is building in Congress, where senators have introduced more legislation aimed at blocking the sale of weapons to the kingdom.
Tuesday, 11 June , 2019The Trump administration informed congressional committees that it will go ahead with 22 military sales to the Saudis, United Arab Emirates and Jordan, infuriating lawmakers by circumventing a long-standing precedent for congressional review of major weapons sales.
Sunday, 26 May , 2019The White House faces a hostile Congress in its dealings with Saudi Arabia, with a bipartisan majority lined up against President Trump — though not yet big enough to override a presidential veto.
Saturday, 13 April , 2019President Donald Trump considered nominating his daughter to head the World Bank, and she also would have been “great” as US ambassador to the United Nations, he said in an interview published Friday.
Saturday, 13 April , 2019Donald Trump has claimed he made a snap decision to officially recognise Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, after receiving a “quick history lesson” on the Middle East.
Sunday, 7 April , 2019Lawrence Wilkerson, one of former US Secretary of State chief members lambasted US broad support of UAE and Saudi Arabia and condemned Mike Pompeo of endangering US National Security.
Wednesday, 13 March , 2019House Democrats have already gone to war with President Donald Trump. But there’s one target they’re skittish of hitting too hard: his children.
Friday, 8 March , 2019The mainstream media hatred of President Trump is driving them to new levels of absurdity — even his administration’s new international gay rights campaign drew bizarre accusations of bigotry from liberal journalists.
Tuesday, 26 February , 2019North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s armoured limousine has arrived in Vietnam’s capital Hanoi ahead of his second nuclear summit with US president Donald Trump.
Tuesday, 26 February , 2019Traditionally focused on ultra-conservative Sunni Muslim Islam, Saudi funding in the era of bin Salman has been streamlined and fine tuned to ensure that it serves his geopolitical ambitions.
Monday, 18 February , 2019The former top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said Sunday that withdrawing up to half the 14,000 American troops serving there would reduce the incentive for the Taliban to negotiate a peace deal after more than 17 years of war.
Tuesday, 1 January , 2019Ariana News Agency- Syria’s seven-year war has transformed its ancient cities into ghost towns. Entire neighbourhoods have been wiped off the map, schools and hospitals reduced to rubble, along with just about everything else. As the war seems to be coming to an end, reconstruction is required on a grand scale. The United Nations estimates […]
Monday, 31 December , 2018President Trump made an unannounced trip to Iraq to visit the U.S. combat troops there on Christmas Day, his first into a combat zone as commander-in-chief.
Sunday, 30 December , 2018While a government shutdown and a key resignation grabbed headlines, diplomats were stunned by US actions over Yemen.
Sunday, 23 December , 2018President Vladimir Putin on Thursday (20 December) accused the United States of raising the risk of nuclear war by threatening to spurn a key arms control treaty and refusing to hold talks about another pact that expires soon.
Sunday, 23 December , 2018U.S. President Donald Trump will upend his own strategy to bring peace to Afghanistan and end America’s longest war if he proceeds with plans to withdraw about half of the 14,000 U.S. troops there, according to veteran diplomats and U.S. officials.
Saturday, 22 December , 2018