The comments were made during the UN’s annual Disarmament and International Security Committee meeting at the world body’s headquarters in New York, Press TV added. “We are deeply concerned about the destabilizing repercussions of the continual entry and export of such weaponry into the region, especially into Saudi Arabia and the Zionist regime of Israel,” said Iran’s Deputy permanent representative ...

They fly from Sde Dov airport all over the world, providing a constant line of communication between Israeli Special Forces teams on the ground and the IDF chief of staff in Tel Aviv; meet the soldiers of the Israel Air Force’s transmissions unit Of all the special forces which take part in thwarting Hamas and Hezbollah to build up their ...

Iraqi and Kurdish forces are finalising plans to attack the last urban stronghold ofIslamic State in Iraq, the northern city of Mosul, which after a month-long buildup is now largely surrounded by a 60,000-strong force. The assault could begin as early as this weekend and is the most critical challenge yet to Isis’s two-year-old “caliphate”, which had shredded state authority in ...

An ugly public feud between two key U.S. allies in the fight against the Islamic State will not affect plans for recapturing a key city from the group, a Pentagon spokesman said Wednesday. Col. John Dorrian, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, played down the effect of this week’s clash between the leaders of Iraq and Turkey, as the U.S. military prepares ...

Asian nations are stepping up their purchases of Iranian oil, underscoring Tehran’s deepening energy ties with the region amid a slow rapprochement with European crude buyers. China, India, Japan and South Korea are among big Asian oil consumers that have sharply boosted their imports of Iranian crude this year. China and India are looking to further lock down Iranian supply, ...

EDITED BY KALAHAN DENG Playboy has for the first time featured a Muslim woman wearing a hijab. The BBC’s Hanan Razek met Libyan-American journalist Noor Tagouri to find out why she wanted to pose for the magazine, which stopped publishing fully nude photos in 2015. The company’s management team says the internet means that pornographic magazines are no longer commercially ...

Egyptian driving a garbage truck loaded with explosives and Islamic State papers rammed into a truck carrying five U.S. soldiers in Kuwait on Saturday, injuring only himself in the attack, authorities said. The attempted attack is the first by the Islamic State group to target American troops in the tiny, oil-rich emirate that’s a stalwart U.S. ally. It comes as ...

Ethiopia’s economy is expected to overtake Kenya’s this year, buoyed by massive government spending on infrastructure that has kept the Horn of Africa nation on the list of the world’s fastest-growing economies in the past 10 years. The International Monetary Fund’s latest statistical estimates indicate that Ethiopia’s gross domestic product is forecast to grow from $61.62 billion in 2015 to ...

Spain’s economy may grow by more than 3.1 percent in 2016, up from the current official target of 2.9 percent, despite political deadlock, acting Economy Minister Luis de Guindos told reporters in Washington on Saturday. “My understanding is that we will beat this forecast, the accurate (figure) will be better than the forecast from the International Monetary Fund,” De Guindos ...

Aspiring Isis recruits are more likely to be better educated than their compatriots, a new study from the World Bank based on leaked internal documents from the terror group has found. The socio-economic study, aimed at trying to understand the pull factors of Isis’ particular brand of extremism, found that more than a quarter of foreign recruits had a university ...