Turkey is ready to take over security in Syria's Manbij, where four U.S. citizens died in an Islamic State-claimed bombing last week, the Turkish presidency said.
*EU moving closer to aggressive U.S. policy to isolate Iran. The French, British, German, Danish, Dutch, and Belgian diplomats in the Iranian foreign ministry room had incensed the officials with a message that Europe could no longer tolerate ballistic missile tests in Iran and assassination plots on European soil, according to four EU diplomats.
President Donald Trump on Saturday traveled to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware for a ceremony honoring the four Americans killed in a suicide bombing in Syria this week.
BEIRUT, Jan 19- Qatar's emir will visit Beirut on Sunday for an Arab economic summit which has been marred by regional rifts and internal Lebanese disputes even before it began. Rifts among Arab states over Syria and its ally Iran, on top of divisions inside Lebanon, have overshadowed the summit, with several leaders pulling out. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab...
*EU moving closer to aggressive U.S. policy to isolate Iran. The French, British, German, Danish, Dutch, and Belgian diplomats in the Iranian foreign ministry room had incensed the officials with a message that Europe could no longer tolerate ballistic missile tests in Iran and assassination plots on European soil, according to four EU diplomats.
President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday the death of four Americans in Syria this week showed that the battle against Islamic State militants would continue and he vowed that France would keep its troops in the region this year.
Wednesday's attack on U.S. forces in Syria has stoked fresh criticism over President Donald Trump's claim that the Islamic State has been defeated and has renewed debate over his decision to withdraw all troops from the war-torn country.
WASHINGTON, Jan 16- In a victory for President Donald Trump, the U.S. Senate on Wednesday rejected legislation to keep sanctions on companies linked to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, including aluminum firm Rusal. That result fell short of the 60 votes necessary to advance to a final passage vote in the 100- member Senate, where Republicans have a 53-47 seat...
WASHINGTON, Jan 16- In a victory for President Donald Trump, the U.S. Senate on Wednesday rejected legislation to keep sanctions on companies linked to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, including aluminum firm Rusal. That result fell short of the 60 votes necessary to advance to a final passage vote in the 100- member Senate, where Republicans have a 53-47 seat...
An attack in the northern Syrian town of Manbij has resulted in multiple casualties including U.S. troops, a senior Kurdish security official confirmed to NBC News.
The Trump Administration should be given "no more than a C plus" for how it has addressed conflict in the Middle East, according to former U.S. National Security Advisor James Jones.
"We don't listen to the council of defeatism," senior State Department advisor Brian Hook said in response to the notion that dislodging Iranian forces from Syria could prove impossible.
WASHINGTON, Jan 11- The United States plans to jointly host a global conference focused on the Middle East, particularly Iran, next month in Poland, the U.S. State Department said on Friday. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox News in an interview to air on Friday that the meeting would "focus on Middle East stability and peace and freedom and security here in this...
Ankara, which views the U.S.-backed Kurdish militias in Syria as terrorists, has already amassed thousands of Turkish troops along its border with Syria, seriously challenging Washington's position.
LAUNCESTON, Australia, Jan 10- The emerging dynamic for crude oil markets this year is the struggle between OPEC and its allies for higher prices against the vocal push for low prices from U.S. This is likely because Asian refiners will bear the brunt of lower supplies from OPEC's Middle East producers, as well as Russia, while at the same time being unable to take...
LAUNCESTON, Australia, Jan 10- The emerging dynamic for crude oil markets this year is the struggle between OPEC and its allies for higher prices against the vocal push for low prices from U.S. This is likely because Asian refiners will bear the brunt of lower supplies from OPEC's Middle East producers, as well as Russia, while at the same time being unable to take...
*Risk sentiment strong on hopes of U.S.- China trade deal. Jan 9- Emerging market stocks and currencies rose on Wednesday, as hopes of positive results from U.S.- China trade talks boosted risk sentiment. "Judging from upbeat equities on Wall Street against a backdrop of Trump's cheerleading tweet for U.S.- China trade talks, it is patently clear that the mood...
WASHINGTON, Jan 8- Legislation reaffirming U.S. support for allies in the Middle East, including a measure to punish Americans who boycott Israel, fell victim on Tuesday to a domestic political dispute that has resulted in a partial federal government shutdown. Most Senate Democrats have vowed to block all legislation in the Senate until it votes on a measure to...
"We cannot accept Bolton's messages given from Israel," the Turkish president says, adding that Bolton made a "serious mistake."
CNBC's Wilfred Frost sits down in an exclusive interview with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ahead of his trip to the Middle East.
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