Iranian FM Visits Pakistan Amid Tehran’s Rising Tensions With US Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif arrived in neighboring Pakistan late Thursday for bilateral consultations amid Tehran's escalating tensions with the United… 05/23/2019 Aimeast
Pentagon Denies Media Reports Detailing Mideast Troop Increase Jeff Seldin, VOA national security correspondent, contributed to this report. PENTAGON — Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has denied reports… 05/23/2019 Aimeast
Iran Tells German Envoy Its Patience Is Over, Fars Reports Iran told a German envoy seeking to preserve the 2015 nuclear deal that its patience was over and urged the… 05/23/2019 Aimeast
Senator: Trump May Use Iran Threat to Sell Bombs to Saudis U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration plans to use a loophole and rising tensions with Iran to sell bombs to Saudi… 05/23/2019 Aimeast
IS Militants Target Kurdish Farmers in Disputed Iraqi Territories VOA's Ahmed Zebari contributed to this report. WASHINGTON — In a bid to extort revenues from local farmers during the… 05/23/2019 Aimeast
US Tells Syrian Kurds Only Future Is Part of Peaceful Syrian State The United States is reminding its Syrian Kurdish allies not to get overly ambitious while at the same time trying… 05/22/2019 Aimeast
Iran Supreme Leader Criticizes Politicians Amid Tension With US Iran's supreme leader publicly chastised the country's moderate president and foreign minister Wednesday, saying he disagreed with the implementation of… 05/22/2019 Aimeast
Deadly Strike Hits Syria Market as Damascus Battles Jihadists Syrian government air strikes killed 18 civilians, including a dozen people at a busy market, as fierce fighting raged for… 05/22/2019 Aimeast
Iranian Lawmaker Says His Country Doesn’t Want War With US Iran will "under no circumstances" enter a war either directly or indirectly with the United States, a prominent reformist Iranian… 05/22/2019 Aimeast
Seeking Energy Independence, Palestinians Open Solar Plant Palestinian officials say they have inaugurated their first solar panel plant as part of a plan to reduce their dependence… 05/22/2019 Aimeast
US Lawmakers Sharply Divided Over Iran Policy President Trump’s national security advisers told U.S. lawmakers Tuesday escalating tensions with Iran were part of a forty-year pattern of… 05/22/2019 Aimeast
Syrian TV: Two Shells Fall in Syria’s Aleppo Two shells fell in the center of the Syrian city of Aleppo, Syria's Ikhbariya television said early on Wednesday. No… 05/22/2019 Aimeast
UN Envoy: Islamic State Revival in Iraq Must Be Prevented The U.N. envoy for Iraq is calling for "wide-based international support" to prevent Islamic State extremists from regaining a foothold… 05/22/2019 Aimeast
Civilian Casualties Mount as Fighting in Syria’s Idlib Province Intensifies The U.N. human rights office warns civilian casualties are growing in northwestern Syria's Idlib province as fighting between Russian-backed Syrian… 05/21/2019 Aimeast
Bahrain Defends Decision to Host White House Mideast Meeting Bahrain on Tuesday defended its decision to host a White House-engineered conference to address the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, saying its only… 05/21/2019 Aimeast
Sources: Turkey to Reduce US Import Tariffs This Week Turkey's Trade Ministry will implement a reciprocal reduction in tariffs on U.S. imports after the United States halved tariffs on… 05/21/2019 Aimeast
Turkish Rights Group Turns to Art to Represent the ‘Disappeared’ Human rights groups in Turkey blame the state for hundreds of disappearances dating back decades as the military wages a… 05/21/2019 Aimeast
Houthis Target Saudi Arms Depot Yemen's Houthi rebels said Tuesday they attacked an arms depot in the southern Saudi city of Najran. A spokesman for… 05/21/2019 Aimeast
What Is Behind Protests Against US-Backed Forces in Eastern Syria? VOA's Saleh Damiger contributed to this story. WASHINGTON — For three consecutive weeks, residents in parts of the eastern Syrian… 05/21/2019 Aimeast
Water Supply to Libyan Capital in Jeopardy After Attack The United Nations is expressing concern over the reported cut-off of water to the Libyan capital, Tripoli. "Yesterday, an armed… 05/20/2019 Aimeast