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Missile system (Shutterstock)

December 20th, 2018 - 08:58 GMT

America Gives Green Light to Possible $3.5B Patriot Missile Sale to Turkey

The Pentagon announced on Tuesday that the US State Department had given the green light to a possible $3.5 billion sale of a Patriot missile system aimed at improving Turkey’s air and missile capabilities.

Facebook stock nosedived 20 per cent. (Shutterstock)

July 26th, 2018 - 08:47 GMT

Facebook Stock Falls 20 Percent, Loses $120 Billion in Market Value

Ilhan Omar, the first Somali-American Muslim legislator elected to office in the US as a representative of Minnesota state and a candidate for Congress. (Facebook/Ilham Omar for Congress)

July 10th, 2018 - 01:24 GMT

Minnesota's First Muslim Legislator is Under Fire for a Gaza War Tweet

Jordan's King Abdullah II in the Oval Office of the White House June 25, 2018 in Washington, DC.
(Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

June 27th, 2018 - 10:16 GMT

King Abdullah Tells U.S. Lawmakers of Economic Tests Facing Jordan

"The two showmen always cater to their domestic audiences whether they are at odds" /AFP

June 14th, 2018 - 11:42 GMT

After the Korea Summit, is Peace in Iran Next? Not if Lobbyists Get Their Way

Palestinians walk along a demolished road by Israel leading to the village of Al Walaja in the West Bank. (Musa Al Shaer/ AFP)

May 25th, 2018 - 05:00 GMT

76 U.S. Congress members Call on Netanyahu to Stop Razing Palestinian Village in Hebron

Scene of the attack (AFP/File Photo)

March 25th, 2018 - 12:02 GMT

'Not the End of the Process': Father of US Veteran Killed by Palestinian Assailant

US Congress (AFP/File Photo)

March 22nd, 2018 - 03:24 GMT

U.S. Congress to Sharply Reduce Annual $300M to Palestinian Authority

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang (AFP/File Photo)

March 18th, 2018 - 01:12 GMT

China Urges Trump to 'Correct Mistake' of US-Taiwan Travel Act

U.S. was also on looking into ways to develop the private sector and help create jobs in Jordan (AFP/File Photo)

February 21st, 2018 - 11:30 GMT

Assistance to Jordan will Likely be More than $6.3b Pledged: US Lawmaker

A weak dollar means the potential for a global currency war is strong. (File photo)

February 7th, 2018 - 12:05 GMT

Opinion: A Currency War Is Taking Shape Around a Weak Dollar

President Donald Trump and Jerome Powell, governor of the U.S. Federal Reserve and Trump's nominee for chairman of the Federal Reserve, walk to a nomination announcement in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, on November 2, 2017. (Saul Loeb/ AFP)

January 31st, 2018 - 06:00 GMT

Meet Jerome Powell, America’s New Top Banker

The U.S. Congress has passed several laws to dry up Hezbollah funding and separate Lebanese banks and other financial infrastructure from the Shia group (AFP/File)

January 24th, 2018 - 10:41 GMT

Cut Hezbollah From Financial System: US to Lebanon