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OTTAWA: (Web Desk) From Afghanistan to Algeria, jihadists plan to use Donald Trump’s shocking U.S. presidential victory as a propaganda tool to bring new fighters to their battlefields. Taliban commanders and Islamic State supporters say Trump’s campaign trail rhetoric against Muslims — at one point calling for a total shutdown of …

Moscow called for a special meeting of the Security Council on 28 October 2016, to debate the cooperation between the UNO and certain regional organisations. Ambassador Vladimir Churkin, who was then presiding the Council, invited the representative of the Commonwealth of Independent States (Russian Sergey Ivanov, CIS), the Collective Security …

[/caption] WASHINGTON: (Web Desk) The US House of Representatives has voted to bar the sale of commercial Boeing and Airbus airplanes to Iran. On Thursday, the Republican-controlled House voted 243-174 to pass the legislation to prohibit the Treasury Department from issuing the licenses US banks would need to complete the …

WASHINGTON: One of the top security chiefs in the United States has resigned just days after Donald Trump was elected President. James Clapper, US Director of National Intelligence, reportedly handed in his resignation letter on Wednesday evening. During a hearing before the House Intelligence Committee, Mr Clapper said he “felt …

WASHINGTON: Former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers has resigned from Donald Trump’s presidential transition team. “It was a privilege to prepare and advise the policy, personnel and agency action teams on all aspects of the national security portfolio during the initial pre-election planning phase,” Rogers said in a statement …

When media outlets in the West give their opinion, they are liberal. When media outlets in other parts of the world give their opinion, they are lackeys. A case in point could be the protests against the Iranian presidential election results which occurred in Tehran from 2009 into 2010. The …

MOSCOW:  Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President-elect Donald Trump yesterday concluded their first telephone conversation with an agreement to instruct their respective staffs to begin planning for a personal meeting. “It was agreed to maintain contact by phone and arrange a meeting in person in the future, with preparations …

WASHINGTON: The United States has decried a new measure by the Israeli regime to legalize illegal settlements built on the Palestinian land. US State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau reacted Monday to approval of a draft legislation in Israel to grant legal status to the settlements, considered illegal under international law, …

Trump’s election has made activists out of people who haven’t been part of any organized demonstrations before. Demonstrators upset over the election of Donald Trump have marched in cities around the country over the past week, and some are making plans to be in Washington for his inauguration Jan. 20. …

WASHINGTON:   The United States on Tuesday condemned the terror attack on Shah Noorani. Director Press Office US State Department Elizabeth Trudeau said: “We extend our condolences to the victims and their families. Attacks like this only deepen our shared resolve to defeat terrorism and end the targeting of religious …