20 hours agoUN Security Council rejects US move to ‘snapback’ Iran sanctions; Trump administration pledges to keep goingThe U.N. Security Council’s president on Tuesday attempted to dismiss a U.S. move to “snapback” all U.N. sanctions on Iran -- a denial that led a furious U.N. Ambassador Kelly Craft to accuse the Council of “standing in the company of terrorists.”
4 days agoUN nuclear watchdog chief to visit Iran, push for access to suspected nuclear sitesThe head of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog will go to Tehran on Monday to meet with Iranian authorities and urge them to grant the agency access to a number of suspected sites of undeclared nuclear material.
5 days agoIran unveils two missiles named after military officials killed by U.S. forcesIran state TV announced Thursday that the nation has unveiled two new missiles, one named after a top Iranian military official killed by U.S. drone strikes this year.
5 days agoUS formally moves to restore UN sanctions on Iran, as Pompeo promises ‘America will not appease’Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday formally began the process to “snapback” U.N. sanctions on Iran, promising that “America will not appease” and taking aim at European allies who he accused of endangering their own people.
6 days agoTrump administration to trigger ‘snapback’ of UN sanctions on Iran: What does it mean?The mechanism known as "snapback" was negotiated and included in U.N. Security Council Resolution 2231, which allows for sanctions and other restrictions to be immediately re-imposed on Iran if it was seen to be breaking the compact.
6 days agoPompeo vows US will sanction Russia, China if they oppose Trump's 'snapback' of UN's Iran sanctionsThe United States will not hesitate to impose sanctions on any nation that opposes its effort to "snapback" United Nations sanctions on Iran, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told "Special Report" Wednesday night.
6 days agoWhy no ISIS member has been charged with genocide or sexual violence for crimes against YazidisIn August 2014, the world watched in helpless horror as ISIS operatives swarmed Yazidi-majority villages in and around Sinjar Mountain. Thousands of men were slaughtered on the spot and thousands of girls and women and carted off into sexual slavery.
August 18Mali's president resigns after being detained by mutinous troopsThe Mali president resigned Tuesday night after being detained with the prime minister in an apparent coup by mutinied soldiers who surrounded the presidential residence and fired shots into the air.
August 18The United Nations failed to renew the arms embargo on Iran. What does that mean?The United Nations Security Council last week rejected a U.S. effort to extend a 13-year-old embargo on Iran imports and exports of conventional weapons, including aircraft and tanks in and out of the Middle Eastern country.
August 17Cruz calls for US to invoke 'snapback' on Iran arms embargo after failed UN vote, hits European 'fecklessness'Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is calling for the Trump administration to use the snapback mechanism in the Iran nuclear deal that would allow the U.S. to force the reimposition of sanctions on Tehran -- after the U.N. Security Council failed to extend a soon-to-expire arms embargo.