Rick Gladstone
Tuesday, July 15, 2014 - 07:54
Despite objections by Syria’s government, the United Nations Security Council voted 15 to 0 on Monday to authorize cross-border convoys of emergency aid for millions of deprived Syrian civilians in rebel-held areas, without prior approval by the Syrian authorities.
Wednesday, July 2, 2014 - 07:00
Saudia Arabia will provide $500 million to the United Nations to help the more than one million displaced Iraqis.
Thursday, June 19, 2014 - 06:57
Tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia, Islamic rivals of the Middle East, appeared to escalate on Wednesday over the Sunni extremist insurgency convulsing Iraq.
Wednesday, June 18, 2014 - 11:08
The United States suggested on Tuesday that the global organization responsible for overseeing the ban on chemical weapons would have to take more assertive action than a simple condemnation concerning Syria, which will miss a June 30 deadline for the destruction of its chemical munitions and has been accused of using chlorine-gas bombs in its civil war.
Monday, June 16, 2014 - 10:47
The United States and Iran on Monday signaled increased willingness to work together to arrest the expanding Sunni insurgency in Iraq, with Secretary of State John Kerry openly suggesting such a collaboration would be constructive and another American official saying the subject could come up at talks this week on the Iranian nuclear dispute.
Friday, June 6, 2014 - 06:01
A unit of Fokker Technologies of the Netherlands, a leading aerospace company and Pentagon contractor, has agreed to pay $21 million in penalties to settle accusations that it repeatedly violated American sanctions on sales of aircraft parts to Iran and Sudan, the United States government announced Thursday.
Wednesday, April 30, 2014 - 13:28
The United States government escalated enforcement of its Iran sanctions on Tuesday, adding eight Chinese companies, a Dubai company and two Dubai-based executives to blacklists for evading American restrictions on Iranian weapons, oil and banking transactions.
Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - 08:54
Doctors Without Borders,expressed alarm and outrage on Monday over the weekend killings of 16 civilians, including three staff members, on the property of a hospital it runs in Boguila, in the Central African Republic.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 09:49
Nearly 90 percent of the chemicals in Syria’s arsenal have now been exported and only a few shipments remain, international monitors reported Tuesday, but the progress was overshadowed by growing concerns that the Syrian military may be dropping bombs filled with chlorine, a common industrial compound not on the list of prohibited poisons.
Monday, April 14, 2014 - 07:31
Though the accord may have served as a “teaser” to Iran, he said in a telephone interview, foreign business interest has remained extremely limited.