What Are Russia’s Strategic Treaties With Iran, North Korea and China?
Jan 17 (Reuters) - Russia signed a strategic partnership treaty with Iran on Friday that follows similar pacts with China and North Korea. All three countries are adversaries of the United States, and Russia has used its ties...
CIA Employee Who Leaked Classified Documents on Israel’s Plans to Strike Iran to Plead...
By Sarah N. Lynch
WASHINGTON, Jan 17 (Reuters) - A CIA employee who was accused of leaking classified documents about Israel's plans to strike Iran pleaded guilty on Friday to criminal charges that he willfully retained and transmitted national...
Iranian President Arrives in Moscow for Treaty Signing With Putin, TASS Says
MOSCOW, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian arrived in Moscow on Friday for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the signing of a strategic partnership treaty between the two countries, Russia's TASS state...
Iraq Wants Iran-Backed Factions to Lay Down Weapons, Foreign Minister Says
By Timour Azhari
LONDON, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Iraq is trying to convince powerful armed factions in the country that have fought U.S. forces and fired rockets and drones at Israel to lay down their weapons or...
Israel, Hamas Reach Ceasefire Deal to End 15 Months of War in Gaza
By Andrew Mills, Nidal al-Mughrabi and Maayan Lubell
DOHA/CAIRO/JERUSALEM, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Hamas and Israel reached a deal for a ceasefire in Gaza that mediators said would take effect on Sunday and include a release of hostages held...
Trump CIA Pick Ratcliffe Faces Senate Questions on Politicized Intelligence
By Jonathan Landay
WASHINGTON, Jan 14 (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump's pick for CIA director, John Ratcliffe, on Wednesday vowed not to fire or force out employees for their political views or their opinions about the incoming U.S. leader, who frequently...
Airlines Including Lufthansa Cautiously Plan to Resume Some Middle East Flights
BERLIN, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Germany's Lufthansa Group LHAG.DE is set to resume flights to and from Tel Aviv in Israel from Feb. 1 and Wizz Air restarted its London to Tel Aviv route on Thursday, the companies...
Israel, Hamas Reach Deal Meant to End Gaza War, Free Hostages and Prisoners, Official...
By Andrew Mills, Nidal al-Mughrabi, Clauda Tanios and Nayera Abdallah
DOHA/DUBAI/JERUSALEM, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Negotiators reached a phased deal on Wednesday to end the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, an official briefed...
Gaza Ceasefire Still Elusive as Negotiators Try to Hammer Out Deal
By Andrew Mills, Nidal al-Mughrabi and Maayan Lubell
DOHA/CAIRO/JERUSALEM, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Negotiators were trying to hammer out the final details of a complex, phased ceasefire in Gaza on Wednesday after marathon talks in Qatar aiming to end...
The West Must Not ‘Bank on the Iranian Regime,’ Warns Renowned Journalist Amir Taheri
By Nazenin Ansari
Kayhan London and Kayhan Life recently conducted video interviews with Amir Taheri, the Chairman of Gatestone Europe and a renowned Iranian journalist who was the editor-in-chief of Kayhan Daily from 1972 to 1979.
Taheri discussed...
