The Bundeswehr has been deployed in Iraq since 2015, at times against the opposition of the Iraqi parliament. The assignment has now been extended. The argument that this would reduce the risk of terrorism in Germany is implausible in view of the uncontrolled arms deliveries to Ukraine.

ANKARA (Sputnik) - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that he, as well as Russian President Vladimir Putin, has ordered to promptly start work on the gas hub idea.

Saudi Arabia's Kingdom Holding, a firm controlled by billionaire Prince Al Walid Bin Talal, secretly invested more than $500 million in three major Russian energy companies between February and March, official documents show.

Covert investigation by Israel’s special crime unit, Lahav 433, has uncovered money-laundering scam that saw millions of euros swindled from Paris treasury

The unrest comes just days after supporters of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr burst into the heavily fortified Green Zone in the center of the Iraqi capital, where they danced, sang, posed for selfies, and dispersed.

Ankara’s comments come after it announced plans for a new military offensive against US-backed Kurdish militants.

Around 400 million people worldwide depend on food from Ukraine. Because of the Russian war of aggression, supplies are faltering, and experts are warning of new famines.

An Israeli startup has been selected by the government to build a large quantum computing center in the country.

Iran is technically capable of producing a nuclear bomb but no political decision on such an option has been made, Kamal Kharrazi, a senior adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, has said.

The modern borders of the Arab world vaguely resemble the blue and red crayon lines secretly drawn on a map of the Levant in May 1916, at the height of the First World War.