Month: May 2019

Growing U.S. pressure on Iran has weakened pragmatic leader Hassan Rouhani and made his hardline rivals more assertive at home and abroad, recent developments show, Reuters writes. When Rouhani succeeded firebrand leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2013, […]

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President Donald Trump will meet with his South Korean counterpart next month when he is scheduled to travel to the country as part of his trip to Asia before attending the G20 economic summit in […]

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Washington ordered the departure of non-emergency government employees from Iraq on Wednesday, after repeated U.S. expressions of concern about threats from Iranian-backed forces, Reuters informs. The State Department has ordered the pullout of the employees […]

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The U.S. drew up a list of associates of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban who could be targeted with sanctions, the Wall Street Journal reported, in what would amount to a fallback option if engagement […]

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As tensions mount between Iran and the United States, on Tuesday Tehran issued a warning to Washington to avoid provoking a conflict, which they said could devastate the region. Among the officials issuing the warning […]

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After President Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani threatened that he is going to travel to Ukraine to request from Ukrainian authorities to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, the former Vice President now attacked […]

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Russia on Tuesday that Washington would brook no interference in the 2020 U.S. presidential election and wanted Moscow to take unspecified action to show there would be no repeat […]

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North Korea on Tuesday demanded the release of a ship impounded by the United States for evading international sanctions, calling the seizure a “flagrant act of robbery” that violated the spirit of the agreement reached […]

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