
US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Monday that he supported a diplomatic solution for the Syria conflict, as America and its partners look beyond the defeat of the ISIL terrorist group in the war-torn nation. Speaking to reporters ahead of his arrival for talks in Finland on Monday, Mattis said ...

Iran dismissed as “irresponsible and provocative” accusations from regional arch-rival Saudi Arabia on Monday that it was responsible a weekend missile attack on Riyadh launched from war-ravaged Yemen. An Iranian foreign ministry statement quoted its spokesman Bahram Ghassemi as saying the accusations by the Saudi-led coalition were “unjust, irresponsible, destructive ...