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  • Iranian authorities have accused the United States of firing at one of Iran's commercial ships in the Gulf of Oman in violation of the two countries' ceasefire agreement.
  • US President Donald Trump stated on Sunday that the US Navy fired an Iranian ship in the Gulf of Oman and seized control of it.
  • Hours after US President Donald Trump announced he was sending negotiators to Islamabad, Iranian state media stated Tehran did not currently plan to participate in new talks with the United States.
  • In an effort to try to reach an agreement with Iran ahead of another round of face-to-face negotiations in Pakistan on Monday, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz backed President Donald Trump's renewed threat to eliminate Iran's electrical infrastructure and bridges.

Tag: Syrian Civil War

December 20, 2018

Meet the Press

Staffan de Mistura (centre), United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, briefs press after consultations on Syria in Geneva

Syrian Refugees: The Looming Winter Months...

Suffering from spinal and back problems, Hilal’s only lifeline is the cash assistance he receives from UNHCR. The money helps him buy heating and winter clothes for his children

December 8, 2018

Hundreds of Bodies Exhumed From Raqqa...

Syrian workers in Raqqa have unearthed a mass grave containing hundreds of bodies of civilians and Islamic State fighters

November 29, 2018

If rockets fired into the Syrian...

A fragile ceasefire between Government forces and opposition fighters has held in Idlib for 10 weeks, guaranteed by Russia, Turkey and Iran, who re-committed to the deal at talks in Astana, Kazakhstan, on Thursday

November 22, 2018

Art in a Suitcase Depicts Wartorn...

Mohamad Hafez, an architect who designs skyscrapers, is better known as the artist who builds replicas of war torn homes

November 18, 2018

A Women-Only Village in Northern Syria...

A new village has been built specifically for women in northern Syria’s Rojava region. The name of the village is Jinwar, which means a place for women in Kurdish. It has 30 identical houses, each of which is made from red clay. VOA’s Zana Omer visited the village and filed this report, narrated by Bezhan …

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