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Bin Laden Raid Commander to Trump: “You Have Embarrassed, Humiliated Us”

The retired US Navy admiral who led the mission to kill Osama bin Laden is defending former CIA director John Brennan after President Donald Trump revoked his security clearance earlier this week. In an op-ed for the Washington Post on Thursday, retired Adm. William McRaven asks Trump to revoke his ...

August 17, 2018

World

North Korea Leader Lambasts ‘Brigandish’ Sanctions

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attacked “hostile forces” over “brigandish” sanctions, state media reported Friday, as Washington seeks to maintain pressure on Pyongyang over its nuclear program. Kim and US President Donald Trump held a groundbreaking summit in Singapore in June, which the US leader touted as a historic ...

August 17, 2018

World

US Threatens More Turkey Sanctions if Pastor Not Released

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin on Thursday said that the United States would levy more sanctions on the troubled Turkish economy if Ankara does not release an American pastor. “We have put sanctions on several of their cabinet members,” Mnuchin told Trump in a cabinet meeting attended by the press. “We ...

August 16, 2018

Middle East

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu

Ankara Notes Normalization of Relations with EU Amid Rift with US

Relations between Turkey and the European Union have begun normalizing, and Ankara is determined to step up the visa liberalization dialogue with the bloc, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said amid recently exacerbated Ankara-Washington tensions. “Our relations with the European Union have started normalizing on a firmer basis. We intend ...

August 16, 2018

World

US Imposes Fresh N Korea-Related Sanctions: Treasury

The United States imposed new North Korea-related sanctions against the Russian-based company Profinet and its Director General, Russian national Vasili Aleksandrovich Kolchanov, the US Treasury Department said in a press release on Wednesday. “The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today announced North Korea-related designations, ...

August 15, 2018

Middle East

Turkey Increases Tariffs on U.S. Products

Turkey has increased tariffs on several United States-origin products. In a presidential decree published in the Official Gazette on Aug. 15, Ankara said it was imposing extra tariffs on imports of products, including rice, tobacco products, vehicles, alcohol, coal and cosmetics. The decree, signed by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, doubled ...

August 15, 2018

Lebanon

Sayyed Nasrallah: Hezbollah Stronger than Israeli Army

Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said it clear on the 12 anniversary of the 2006 Divine Victory: The Lebanese “resistance today is more powerful than the Israeli army” and both US and the Zionist entity are “too weak to stage wars like those launched before.” Talking during a ceremony ...

August 15, 2018

World

US Defense Spending Bill: Trump Delays F-35 Sale to Turkey as Tensions Rise

Turkey has placed orders for 30 US-made F-35A fighter jets, and intends to order 70 more as part of the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) project, which involves 10 countries and produces various versions of the plane. On Sunday, President Donald Trump signed into law a policy bill, putting on hold ...

August 14, 2018

World

Pompeo Talks to MBS, ‘Thanks Him for Cooperation’ over Syria and Iraq

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman by phone on Monday to discuss the situations in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen, the US State Department said in a statement. It said Pompeo thanked the crown prince “for Saudi Arabia’s support for northeast Syria’s ...

August 14, 2018

World

Bolton Meets Turkish Envoy to Discuss US Pastor Detention

White House national security adviser John Bolton met on Monday with Turkey’s ambassador to the United States to discuss Turkey’s detention of American pastor Andrew Brunson, the White House said. “At the Turkish ambassador’s request, Ambassador John Bolton met with Ambassador Serdar Kilic of Turkey (on Monday) in the White ...

August 14, 2018