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A “halal” internet has been a topic that’s been brought up in Iran several times in the past, and has once again resurfaced in the wake of the recent protests across the country. It would mean the strict control of the internet to make it coincide with Islamic law — and being an Islamic country, […]

U.S. officials are baffled but pleased that U.S. ships in the Persian Gulf have stopped being harassed by armed Iranian fast boats, military officials from the US Central Command said. The boats for at least two years would dart toward the U.S. vessels as they passed through the Persian Gulf, risking miscalculation, but haven’t done […]

Finland looks set to halt all arms sales to the United Arab Emirates after images have emerged showing the UAE using Finnish-made weapons in Yemen’s civil war. All eight candidates in Finland’s presidential elections vowed this week to halt arms sales to the UAE if elected into office in February. The announcement came after a […]

Germany and Norway have recently announced they would stop selling weapons to countries in the Saudi-led coalition waging war in Yemen.  But the US told Business Insider that it has no intentions of halting weapons sales or support for the coalition.  The war in Yemen has caused mass starvation and been dubbed “the worst humanitarian […]

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson laid out the US’s new strategy in Syria, and he named combating Iran’sIran’sIran’s influence and its threat to US interests as a main goal. The US has just 2,000 troops in Syria while Iran has an estimated 70,000, but the US has plenty of assets — military, economic, and diplomatic […]

U.S. officials are baffled but pleased that U.S. ships in the Persian Gulf have stopped being harassed by armed Iranian fast boats, military officials from the US Central Command said. The boats for at least two years would dart toward the U.S. vessels as they passed through the Persian Gulf, risking miscalculation, but haven’t done […]

This exclusive account of 14 days of unrest in Iran reveals at least 213 anti-government protests and 34 pro-regime rallies across 90 cities. The protests were fueled by working-class grievances, and they swept through provincial cities and towns. But Tehran didn’t see massive marches that it did during the 2009 Green Movement.   Read the […]

United States military forces will remain in Syria in a long-term presence as part of a broader strategy from the Trump administration to achieve three goals, officials announced on Wednesday. First to prevent any resurgence by the Islamic State, to prepare diplomatically for the eventual departure of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and to curb the […]

United States military forces will remain in Syria in a long-term presence as part of a broader strategy from the Trump administration to achieve three goals, officials announced on Wednesday. First to prevent any resurgence by the Islamic State, to prepare diplomatically for the eventual departure of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and to curb the […]

On this day in 1991, Operation Desert Shield became Operation Desert Storm as the US along with other coalition countries began a massive bombing campaign against the Iraqi forces of Saddam Hussein. The Iraqis had invaded the country of Kuwait during the summer of 1990 and the coalition began forming up to force Iraq to […]

On Wednesday a Turkish banker, Mehmet Hakan Atilla age 47, who had been accused of aiding Iran to circumvent economic sanctions was convicted by a U.S. court on four counts of conspiracy including conspiracy to defraud the United States and one separate count of bank fraud. The situation has put a strain on U.S.-Turkish relations since […]

Syrian rebels have launched a counter-attack against government forces and their Iranian-backed allies in Idlib province. The fighting, which is raging right along the Turkish border is a source of rising tension for Turkey’s government. Fighting raged in Idlib, where a government offensive helped by Iran-backed militia has gathered pace in the last two weeks, […]