After a week of tit-for-tat retaliation between the US and Iran, tensions escalated even further when on January 3, 2020, a US air raid killed General Qassem Suleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Forces, along with seven others, including Abu Mahid al-Muhandis, the founder of Kataib Hezbollah ...

Australia is seeing its worst wildfires in decades, with large areas of the country affected since the fire season began in September. Every Australian state is experiencing fires, but New South Wales has been the area hardest hit ...

Protesters denouncing US airstrikes on the Iran-backed Kataib Hezbolla militia group attacked the US embassy in Baghdad on December 31, 2019. Demonstrations turned violent as protesters smashed windows, burned security posts, and threw rocks as security forces retaliated by firing tear gas ...

In late December 2019, U.S. President Trump signed a bill imposing sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project which is led by Russia’s Gazprom. If completed, the pipeline would ...

Following an official request for military support from Tripoli’s internationally recognized Government of National Accord, Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan announced that ...

After two months of political deadlock, Lebanese President Michel Aoun has designated a new prime minister to form a government. Mr. Hassan Daib is a former education minister and professor at the American University of Beirut ...

On December 18, 2019, President Trump became the third U.S. president to be impeached by the House of Representatives...

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta announced that cargo services would be launched on a new billion-dollar extension of a China-funded railway line between the capital and Naivasha, a town in the Rift Valley ...

Apple, Google, Dell, Microsoft, and Tesla are being sued for their alleged role in labor and human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Fourteen families of children who worked for cobalt mining companies in the African republic have alleged...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned that Turkey could shut down its Incirlik airbase in retaliation to recent US shifts in policy towards Turkey. The US has threatened to impose sanctions on Turkey for purchasing the S-400 missile defense system from Russia earlier this year and for the country’s recent military intervention in Northern Syria ...