Iraq's World Cup striker, Aymen Hussein, was held and questioned for nearly seven hours at Chicago's O'Hare airport after arriving with the squad early on Saturday, an Iraqi sporting official said.
The nerve is breathtaking. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi took to X on Saturday to rebuke Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, suggesting that Israel - not Iran - is Lebanon's "true enemy."
The Arab world is finding its voice, and it is speaking directly against Tehran.
Armenian authorities arrested six candidates for a pro-Russian opposition party on Saturday, a day before they were due to stand in general elections, state media reported, without giving any reason for the detentions.
Lebanese army commander General Rudolf Haykal has left on a visit to Pakistan, Lebanon's army said on Saturday, amid Pakistani efforts to mediate an end to the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran that has also spilled into Lebanon.
Let us be blunt. Weeks of diplomacy, goodwill gestures and presidential announcements of imminent deals have produced exactly nothing.
Explosions were heard near Kuwait International Airport and in Bahrain's capital Manama on Saturday, AFP correspondents reported, shortly after Iran's Revolutionary Guards announced they had struck "enemy bases" in the region.
Several Palestinian factions are due to meet in Egypt on Saturday to discuss the future governance of Gaza, as the prospect of a significantly expanded role for Mohammed Dahlan, a longtime rival of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, gains renewed momentum.
U.S. forces struck Iranian coastal radar sites on Saturday after shooting down drones launched by Iran toward the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. military said, in the latest escalation complicating efforts to end the war between the two countries.
Political parties backing Guinea's coup-leader-turned-President Mamady Doumbouya have won a majority in the bauxite-rich West African country's legislative elections, the electoral authority said on Friday, tightening his grip on power.
U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner traveled to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee on Thursday to consult with experts that could play a role in nuclear negotiations with Iran, a source familiar with the trip said on Friday.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun accused Iran of using Lebanon as a bargaining chip in its negotiations with the United States on Friday, in some of his toughest criticism yet of Tehran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah as it wages war with Israel.
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