Category: Middle East

LIVE at 11AM ET: How the White House Learned to Love Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program

With a catastrophic loss already in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden may be about to unleash more chaos in the Middle East. With the United States eager to reenter a nuclear deal with the leading state sponsor of terror, is an Iranian bomb far behind? In this eye-opening episode of Over The Target LIVE, Lee Smith…


Russia, Ukraine Reach Deal on Grain Exports, Turkey Says

Officials from Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, and the United Nations (U.N.) have agreed to a deal to resume exports of Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea from July 22, according to officials from Turkey and the U.N. A July 21 statement from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s office said that a general agreement had been reached during…


Russia, Ukraine Reach Deal on Grain Exports, Turkey, UN Say

Officials from Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, and the United Nations have agreed to a deal to resume exports of Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea, according to Turkish and U.N. officials. A general agreement that was reached during talks in Istanbul last week will be put into writing, and signed by all parties on July 22…


Turkish Strikes in North Iraq Kill 8 Tourists, Wound Over 20

BAGHDAD—Turkish airstrikes killed eight tourists in northern Iraq and wounded over 20, Iraqi Kurdish officials and the Iraqi army said on Wednesday. At least four missiles struck the resort area of Barakh in the Zakho district in the semi-autonomous Kurdish-run region, district mayor Mushir Mohammed told The Associated Press. All the casualties were Iraqi citizens….


France, UAE Sign Energy Cooperation Deal

PARIS—The governments of France and the United Arab Emirates signed on Monday a strategic agreement to cooperate in the energy sector, the French government said. The partnership aimed to identify joint investment projects in France, the UAE or elsewhere in the sectors of hydrogen, renewable, and nuclear energy, the French government said in a statement….


Putin Forges Ties With Iran’s Supreme Leader in Tehran Talks

LONDON/DUBAI—Russian President Vladimir Putin had talks with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Iran on Tuesday, the Kremlin leader’s first trip outside the former Soviet Union since Moscow’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine. In Tehran, Putin also held his first face-to-face meeting since the invasion with a NATO leader, Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan, to discuss a…


Iran and Russia’s Gazprom Sign Primary Deal for Energy Cooperation

LONDON—The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) and Russian gas producer Gazprom signed on Tuesday a memorandum of understanding worth around $40 billion, Iran’s oil ministry’s news agency SHANA said. The deal was signed during an online ceremony by the CEOs of both companies on the day Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives in Tehran for a…


22 Killed, 33 Injured in Car Crash in Southern Egypt

CAIRO—At least 22 people were killed and 33 injured in a car crash on Tuesday near Egypt’s southern province of Minya, authorities said. The crash took place in the early morning when a passenger bus hit a stopped trailer truck on a highway linking the capital of Cairo to the country’s south, local authorities in…


Earthquake in Eastern Afghanistan Injures 10 People

ISLAMABAD—An earthquake shook a remote area of eastern Afghanistan on Monday, injuring at least 10 people, a Taliban official said. It struck in the same region where an earthquake last month killed hundreds of people and caused widespread devastation. The U.S. Geological Survey said Monday’s earthquake had a magnitude of 5.1. Abdul Wahid Rayan, director…


Biden Rebuked for Visit to Saudi Arabia: Bernie Sanders

In comments to ABC This Week host Martha Raddatz on July 17, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said that President Joe Biden should not have rewarded a brutal dictatorship like Saudi Arabia with a visit. In reply to Raddatz’s question whether the visit to Saudi Arabia should have been made, Sanders said,  “No, I don’t think…