
FOREIGN POLICY
‘Israel seeks $5 billion annual US aid’
Israel has made an initial request for its annual US military aid to increase to as much as $5 billion when its current aid package expires in 2017, sources say.

Israel has made an initial request for its annual US military aid to increase to as much as $5 billion when its current aid package expires in 2017, sources say.

A senior Hamas leader has called for the unified leadership of all Palestinian groups amid a recent wave of Israeli violence.

Forbes announces Russian President Vladimir Putin as the world most powerful person.

The US Air Force has confirmed that one of its rockets disintegrated a minute after lift-off

Russia is to develop the first mobile nuclear power plant for military installations in the Arctic by 2020.

Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush will get the nominations of their respective parties because in US politics money trumps all, even Donald Trump, an American journalist says.

Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton is behind her GOP rival, Ben Carson, in a head-to-head match-up in the key early voting state of Iowa

Britain says an "explosive device" may have brought down the Russian passenger plane that crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.

The US says Russia's air campaign against militants in Syria has "dangerously exacerbated" the years-long crisis.

US naval maneuvers in the South China Sea is a provocative move by Washington to foment conflicts between China and its neighbors.

More than half of young blacks in the US have indicated that they or someone they know has been victimized by police violence.

Deutsche Bank will pay $258 million and fire six employees to the US to resolve a case involving violations of Iran and Syria sanctions.

Iran and China urge enhanced strategic cooperation for global peace and stability.

Iran says it has devised various mechanisms to attract investments for projects to revamp its transportation infrastructure.

Yemeni forces launch new retaliatory attacks against positions of the Saudi military on the border.

The Illinois policeman, who was thought to be killed in the line of duty, committed a "carefully staged suicide,” US authorities say.

An Afghan official says a US drone went down in a remote mountainous area south of Kabul.

An expert with the IRGC intelligence department says the US and Britain have provided financial and diplomatic support for an anti-Iran media campaign.