Hanin Ghaddar, Carla Humud & Mona Yacoubian Testify before Congress on Lebanon: US Must Keep Offstage, Protests Will Undermine Hezbollah

The US House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Middle East, North Africa, and International Terrorism held a hearing session in which three Lebanese-American observers testified on the current protests in Lebanon, stressing that Hezbollah would lose much of its influence in the country of the protestors’ demands are fulfilled. The three ...

Iran Condemns Reversal of US Policy on Israeli Settlements

Iran’s Foreign Ministry lambasted as a “clear violation of international law” the US secretary of state’s declaration that Israeli settlements on the occupied Palestinian territories were no longer considered illegal. In a statement on Thursday, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi roundly condemned the announcement by US Secretary of State Mike ...

US-China ‘Phase One’ Trade Deal to Be Postponed until next year

Completion of a partial trade deal between the US and China will likely be postponed to next year, as Beijing presses for more extensive tariff rollbacks and Washington counters with more demands of its own, according to trade experts and people close to the White House A so-called “phase one” ...

Armed Forces to Stage Joint Air Defense Drill in Central Iran

Iran’s Air Defense units are going to stage a large-scale military exercise in the northern parts of the country. The joint air defense exercise, codenamed ‘Guardians of Velayat Sky-98’, will be held over an area of 416,000 square kilometers mostly in the province of Semnan. The war game is aimed ...

Armed forces to stage joint air defense drill in central Iran

IRGC: Ringleaders of Recent Riots Arrested

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) spokesperson said the ringleaders of the recent riots in Iran have been arrested in four provinces of the country. Speaking to reporters on Wednesday evening, General Ramezan Sharif said the ringleaders of unrest in four provinces of Iran have been arrested. He said the ...

Arab League to Meet over US Support for Israeli Settlements

The Arab League will hold an emergency meeting of foreign ministers Monday to discuss Washington’s change of position on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, Egypt’s state news agency MENA said Wednesday. US President Donald Trump’s administration Monday abandoned the United States’s four-decade position that the settlements were “inconsistent ...

Speaker Berri: Sedition the Big Loser in Lebanon

Lebanese Speaker Nabih Berri said that his move to extend the mandate of the parliamentary committees has protected Lebanon from vacuum. In his weekly meeting with Lebanese journalists, Speaker Berri said “the big loser yesterday was the sedition and the big winner was Lebanon and its civil peace.” He noted ...