A bipartisan bill introduced Wednesday would repeal the 2002 Iraq War authorization in the wake of President Biden’s decision to bomb facilities in Syria that were allegedly used by an Iran-backed militia.The largely symbolic bill was introduced by four Senate Democrats and four Senate Republicans led by Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.).“Last week’s airstrikes in Syria…

AdvertisingDoha (AFP)Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur, cheered on by the small Qatar Open crowd like a home star, deployed masterful racquet work, landing crucial shots out of rival and second seed Karolina Pliskova’s reach but was inconsistent, succumbing 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 on Wednesday in their second round clash in Doha.It was Jabeur who defeated the Czech during…

Emerald, seen here as the Ebn Batuta prior to her sale (file image courtesy Libyan General National Maritime Transport Company) The government of Israel has accused Iran of responsibility for the oil spill affecting its Mediterranean shoreline, claiming that a tanker full of Iranian crude deliberately released the pollution in early February. In a briefing Wednesday, Environmental Protection…

TEHRAN, Iran — A music video on an Iranian entertainment app that includes an appearance by a US porn actress has prompted outrage among authorities who have launched an investigation, Iranian media reported Wednesday.The Iranian Rubika application was being investigated by officials after it published a brief teaser from the “Tehran Tokyo” music video by…

closeVideoDr. Henry Kissinger, the former secretary of state for both Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, likened President Donald Trump’s Middle East diplomatic achievements to Nixon’s opening of China in 1972. He also warned that the U.S. should continue the tough Trump policy on Iran. “I think that one of the great successes of the previous administration was that they had…

ADVERTISEMENT1 of 2FILE – This Sept. 15, 2019, file photo, shows storage tanks at the North Jiddah bulk plant, an Aramco oil facility, in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia. Yemen’s Houthi rebels said they struck a Saudi oil facility in the port city of Jiddah on Thursday, March 4, 2021, the latest in a series of cross-border…

Yemen’s Houthi rebels said they attacked a Saudi oil facility in the port city of Jeddah, the latest in a series of cross-border missile and drone strikes the group has claimed against the kingdom amid the grinding war in Yemen.Saudi Arabia’s state-owned media did not immediately acknowledge any incident in Jeddah.Brigadier General Yehia Sarie, a…

BAGHDAD (AP) — It began like any other Sunday in the Our Lady of Salvation Church in Baghdad for worshipper Louis Climis. That day nearly 11 years ago would end with blood-stained pews, anguish and lives lost.Six al-Qaeda-linked militants stormed and seized the church, killing dozens inside. At the time, the Oct. 31, 2010 attack…

AdvertisementContinue reading the main story Pope Francis has said he is determined to visit the war-torn country. But some worry that the visit will become a superspreader event in a land where the virus still rages. A banner depicting Pope Francis in Qaraqosh, a town of Syriac Catholics, in Iraq last week.Credit…Zaid Al-Obeidi/Agence France-Presse —…