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US Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Make Iran Sanctions Permanent

A bipartisan group of Congressional representatives led by Reps. Michelle Steel (R-CA), Michael McCaul (R-TX), and Susie Lee (D-NV) on Monday introduced a bill to make the provisions of the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 permanent. That bill,…
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Iran, Syria to Sign Agreements During Raisi’s Visit to Damascus

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will visit Damascus Wednesday at the head of a sizeable ministerial delegation, the first by an Iranian president to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since war broke out in Syria in 2011. A local newspaper…
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Pakistan to continue moral, diplomatic support of Palestine: Talha

Minister for Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony Senator Muhammad Talha Mahmood on Tuesday said Pakistan would continue moral and diplomatic support of Palestine and its people. He said this in a meeting with Palestinian National Assembly…
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UN will stay in Afghanistan but funding is drying up, chief says

The United Nations will stay in Afghanistan to deliver aid to millions of desperate Afghans despite the Taliban's restrictions on its female staff, but funding is drying up, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday. Guterres,…
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‘US destroyed Yemeni industries, turned nation into consumer market’: Ansarallah

The head of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council, Mahdi al-Mashat, accused the US and Saudi-led war of destroying Yemen’s national industries to turn the country into a “consumer market” dependent on its neighbors. “The countries…
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Opinion: Mission Accomplished? The Iraq War 20 years later

By Clint Van Winkle May 1, 2023 marks the 20th anniversary of former President George W. Bush’s Mission Accomplished speech aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier with a crew of about 5,500 US…