TEL AVIV (AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left for Washington on Monday for a White House visit with President Barack Obama, said an AFP correspondent who witnessed the departure.
The meeting Tuesday is expected to be an occasion for the two leaders to put behind the tensions from their last meeting in March.
The two countries are strategic allies, but the privileged rel [...]
BEIRUT (AFP) - Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, a former spiritual mentor of the Shiite militant group Hezbollah and branded a "terrorist" by Washington, died on Sunday aged 75, officials said.
A top authority of Shiite Islam in Lebanon and the region, especially Iraq where he was born, Fadlallah held the title of "sayyed" to denote direct lineage with the Prophet Mohammed and [...]
RIYADH (AFP) - Former boxing champion Mike Tyson, who converted to Islam while in jail in the 1990s, is visiting the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina on pilgrimage, a Saudi daily reported on Saturday.
Tyson, who was world heavyweight champion from 1986 to 1990, arrived on Friday in Medina with the Canadian Dawa Association for the umrah, or minor pilgrimage, the newspaper Okaz said.
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - President Barack Obama signed into law the toughest ever US sanctions on Iran, which he said would strike at Tehran's capacity to finance its nuclear program and deepen its isolation.
The measures, on top of new UN Security Council and European sanctions, aim to choke off Iran's access to imports of refined petroleum products like gasoline and jet fuel and curb its acce [...]
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States voiced concern Thursday over cooperation between Syria and Iran after reports Tehran had sent a radar system that would boost defenses against Israel.
The Wall Street Journal, quoting anonymous Israeli and US officials, reported that Iran last year sent the sophisticated radar that could help the Islamic republic detect an Israeli strike on its nuclear [...]
BRASILIA (AFP) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad voiced support Wednesday for the efforts of Brazil and Turkey to broker a diplomatic solution to the international tensions over Iran's nuclear program.
Under a May accord, Iran agreed to send some of its low-enriched uranium to Turkey in return for higher grade nuclear fuel from Russia and France for a medical research reactor.
Assad des [...]
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