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NEW YORK: American journalist and political commentator Don DeBar believes the New York Times – “one of the most Zionist rags on the planet” — is trying to compel US President Donald Trump to apply “maximum pressure” on Iran in order to start war with the country. DeBar made the …

WASHINGTON: The historic impeachment trial of Donald Trump opened Thursday in the US Senate, as lawmakers took a solemn oath to be “impartial” in deciding whether to force the 45th US president from office. In a hushed chamber, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, clad in a traditional black robe, …

WASHINGTON: The United States military has said that 11 of its troops were wounded in an Iranian retaliatory missile attack last week despite Washington’s initial claim denying casualties. “While no US service members were killed in the January 8 Iranian attack on al-Asad Air base, several were treated for concussion …

WASHINGTON: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Thursday said United States must remain engaged in Afghanistan’s reconstruction even if it succeeds in withdrawing troops and ending its longest war. The foreign minister is currently in the United States on the third leg of his mission to defuse tensions in the …

WASHINGTON: The Democratic-led House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to send two formal charges against President Donald Trump to the Senate, clearing the way for only the third impeachment trial of a US president to begin in earnest next week. Lawmakers voted 228 to 193 to give the Senate, controlled …

NEW YORK: During the first day of his visit to the US, Qureshi met with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. “I thanked the Secretary-General for his continuing efforts to address the human rights situation in occupied Kashmir and the threat to peace in South Asia,” the foreign minister said in …

WASHINGTON: The United States’ Ambassador to the United Nations, Kelly Craft, said on Thursday that Washington was now “ready to engage without preconditions in serious negotiations with Iran”. The statement came after US President Donald Trump showed restraint following Tehran’s missile attacks on two US bases in Iraq, deciding not …

WASHINGTON: US Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen has questioned the Trump administration’s purported intelligence claiming Iranian Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani was planning an imminent attack on Americans. Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the second-in-command of Iraq’s Popular …

US has been pulling out its troops from the region, despite claims to the contrary. The sources said Sunday the US has withdrawn its combat troops from Kuwait while C-5 and C-17 planes have transferred about 700 guards to the region to reinforce protection of American diplomatic missions. SOURCE: PressTv

WASHINGTON: The Pentagon has announced that the United States is sending at least 3,000 additional troops to the Middle East after the US assassination of Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani. In Washington, a Pentagon official said on Friday that 3,000 to 3,500 troops from the 82nd Airborne Division’s Global Response …