World Jun 26 Iran renews headscarf crackdown as presidential vote looms The renewed headscarf crackdown in Iran comes nearly two years since mass protests over the death Mahsa Amini after she was detained for not wearing a scarf to authorities' liking.
World Jun 25 Iran’s supreme leader calls for ‘maximum’ turnout in presidential election as he issues warning to reformist candidate Iran’s supreme leader issued a thinly veiled warning to the sole reformist candidate in the country’s upcoming presidential election.
World Jun 22 Another Houthi attack targets ship in Gulf of Aden as USS Eisenhower heads home An attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels targeted a commercial ship traveling through the Gulf of Aden but apparently caused no damage, authorities said Saturday, in the latest strike on the shipping lane by the group.
World Jun 19 Hundreds died in intense heat during Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, officials say Hundreds of people have died during this year's Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia as the faithful faced intense high temperatures at Islamic holy sites in the desert kingdom.
World Jun 17 U.S. carrier captain says Houthis are trying to ‘inspire themselves through misinformation’ with false claims of hitting his ship The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower may be one of the oldest aircraft carriers in the U.S. Navy, but it’s still fighting — despite repeated false claims by Yemen’s Houthi rebels.
World Jun 15 U.S. strikes Houthi radar sites after merchant sailor goes missing in Red Sea attack The U.S. military unleashed a wave of attacks targeting radar sites operated by Yemen’s Houthi rebels after one merchant sailor went missing and the vessel he was on caught fire in the latest Houthi strike on shipping in the crucial Red Sea…
World Jun 14 In conflict with Yemen’s Houthi rebels, U.S. Navy faces most intense combat since World War II The fight against the near-daily attacks by the Houthis has been overshadowed by the Israel-Hamas war raging in Gaza.
Politics Jun 03 Iran’s hard-line parliament speaker emerges as the top figure in the presidential vote Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf is the most-prominent candidate from within its Shiite theocracy in the race to replace the late Ebrahim Raisi after a helicopter crash that killed him and seven others.
World Jun 02 Former hard-line Iranian President Ahmadinejad registers for June election Iran's hard-line former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad registered Sunday as a possible candidate for the presidential election, seeking to regain the country's top political position after a helicopter crash killed the nation's president.
World May 31 Joint U.S.-British airstrikes in Yemen kill at least 16 people and wound 42 others, Houthi rebels say Joint British-U.S. airstrikes targeting Yemen's Houthi rebels killed at least 16 people and wounded 42 others.