North Korean leader Kim oversaw testing of multiple rocket launchers

By Reuters,

North Korea has conducted a “strike drill” for multiple launchers, firing tactical guided weapons into the East Sea in a military drill supervised...

Kim Jong-un , North Korea , UN Security Council Resolutions

Gulf Arabs, Iran reject U.S. recognition of Golan Heights as Israeli

By Reuters,

U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights united Washington’s Gulf Arab allies and regiona...

Golan Heights , Gulf Arabs , Iran , israeli

First Somali-American congresswoman ignites controversy in diverse Minneapolis

By VOA,

Representative Ilhan Omar has a way of attracting attention. Four months ago, the Democrat became the first Somali-American — and one of the firs...

Minneapolis

Trump sparks confusion with tweet on North Korea-related sanctions

By CNN,

President Donald Trump triggered rampant confusion among his own aides and administration officials when he said Friday he is withdrawing new sanction...

Kim Jong-un , President Donald Trump , Sanctions on North Korea.

Syria calls Trump comments about Golan heights ‘irresponsible’

By VOA,

Syria's foreign ministry said Friday that U.S. President Donald Trump's announcement that the U.S. will recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan H...

Syria

North Korea may suspend nuclear talks with ‘gangster-like’ U.S.: diplomat

By Reuters,

North Korea is considering suspending talks with the United States and may rethink a ban on missile and nuclear tests unless Washington makes concessi...

UN security council fails to find consensus on Venezuela crisis

By VOA,

The UN Security Council failed to agree Thursday on either a U.S. or Russian proposal to find a way forward on the Venezuelan crisis. The 15-nation...

UN , Venezuela

Dutch customs seizes 90,000 bottles of vodka thought heading to North Korea

By Reuters,

A container filled with 90,000 bottles of vodka believed to be for sanctions-hit North Korea has been seized by Dutch customs agents, officials said T...

Dutch seizes North Korea Vodka

Abrams: more sanctions coming on Maduro allies

By VOA,

A senior U.S. official said Tuesday the Trump administration would impose more sanctions on Venezuela in the coming days. "We announced some sancti...

Abrams , MADURO

New UN report shows North Korea avoiding sanctions

By VOA,

A new report by the United Nations shown to the Security Council Friday claims North Korea is working to ensure its weapons cannot be destroyed by mil...

North Korea , United Nations

North Korea is hiding nukes and selling weapons, alleges confidential UN report

By CNN,

North Korea is moving its nuclear and ballistic weapons to hide them from potential US military strikes, according to a UN Security Council diplomat c...

North Korea , Nukes , weapons

North Korea protecting nuclear missiles, U.N. monitors say, ahead of summit talks

By Reuters,

North Korea is working to ensure its nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities cannot be destroyed by military strikes, U.N. monitors said ahead of a...

North Korea , U.S

Iran says it will be ready for new satellite launch in a few months

By Reuters,

Iran will be ready for a new satellite launch in a few months’ time after a failed attempt this week, President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday, ig...

Iran to launch another satellite in a few months

Iran says missile program defensive after U.S. test allegation

By Reuters,

Iran said on Sunday its missile program is defensive and not in breach of U.N. resolutions, the state news agency IRNA said, following a U.S. allegati...

Bahram Qasemi , Donald Trump , Iran , Mike Pompeo

Iran is new transit point for Somali charcoal in illicit trade taxed by militants: U.N. report

By Reuters,

Criminal networks are using Iran as a transit point for illicit Somali charcoal exports that earn Islamist militants al Shabaab millions of dollars an...

Somali , The United Arab Emirates (UAE) , United Nations (UN)

North Korea has not stopped nuclear, missile program: confidential U.N. report

By Reuters,

North Korea has not stopped its nuclear and missile programs in violation of United Nations sanctions, according to a confidential U.N. report seen by...

MISSILE , North Korea , Nuclear weapons , U.N. Security Council , United Nations , United States

UN backs Syria ceasefire as death toll in rebel enclave tops 500

By AFP,

The UN Security Council has unanimously demanded a 30-day ceasefire in Syria, as new air strikes on the rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta took the civil...

AL QAEDA , Aleppo , France's Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian , French Ambassador Francois Delattre , French President Emmanuel Macron , German Chancellor Angela Merkel , Ghouta , Idlib , President Bashar al-Assad , russia , Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia , Russian President Vladimir Putin , Syria , Syrian Observatory for Human Rights , UN , UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres , US Ambassador Nikki Haley

US Secretary of State confronts North Korean diplomat at UN

By CNN,

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson slammed North Korea's representative to the UN on Friday, directly rebutting his claim that the US is to blame for te...

North Korea , President Donald Trump , Secretary of state Tillerson , US , US Secretary of State confronts North Korean diplomat at UN , US-North Korea stalemate

Two Palestinians dead in ‘day of rage’, US isolated at UN

By AFP,

Clashes, Palestinian rocket fire and Israeli air strikes killed at least two people and wounded dozens of others on Friday in violence linked to US Pr...

Trump recognizes Jerusalem as Israel's capital , Two Palestinians dead in 'day of rage' , UN Security Council members criticised Trump's decision in an emergency meeting of the world body. , US isolated at UN

N. Korea slams Trump for trying to halt its nuclear, missile programs

By VOA,

North Korea denounced U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday for trying to halt the North's nuclear and missile programs. The North Korean Foreign...

China imposes trade restrictions on North Korea , North Korea , NORTH KOREA LAUNCH BALLISTIC MISSILE , North Korea releases dam water into South Korea without warning