Middle East

The United States is responsible for the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Rukban refugee camp in Syria, as it has illegally occupied this territory, Yury Tarasov, the representative of the Russian Defense Ministry in taskforces on ceasefire and humanitarian issues in Geneva, said on Friday.

CAIRO/MANAMA (Sputnik) – Cairo fully trusts the results of the probe into the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which was recently revealed by Saudi prosecutors, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The White House has not taken any steps with respect to extraditing US-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen amid the developments in the case of murdered Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi, US Department of State spokesperson Heather Nauert said in a press briefing.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The United States is not ready to draw conclusions on what exactly happened at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul after journalist Jamal Khashoggi entered it on October 2, US Department of State spokesperson Heather Nauert said during a press conference.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Canada could soon join the United States in imposing sanctions against the Saudi nationals accused of killing journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland told reporters.

A Chinese company specializing in laser technologies and weapons is promoting the use of lasers in oil exploitation and even space exploration.

ANKARA (Sputnik) - The investigation into the assassination of Russian Ambassador to Ankara Andrey Karlov has been completed in Turkey and the indictment has been sent to the prosecutor's office, local media reported on Thursday.

The group maintains Facebook is providing support for a terrorist organization.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The United States must ensure per its treaties cleric Fethullah Gulen is given due process amid reports of his possible removal to Turkey, the Hizmet-affiliated Alliance for Shared Values (AFSV) said in a statement on Thursday.

A month after US members of Congress from both parties claimed to be disturbed at the ruthless murder of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi, Republican leadership in the House of Representatives prohibited a debate about ending US support for the Saudi coalition.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - A Japanese-made communications satellite owned by Qatar zoomed toward a geostationary orbit from the Kennedy Space Center in the US state of Florida atop a Falcon 9 rocket built by the private aerospace company Space X on Thursday.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The United Nations is waiting for a request from a member nation, most likely Turkey, before taking steps to establish UN-led international probe of the murder of Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi, spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters on Thursday.

MANAMA (Sputnik) – The Russian company Sukhoi Civil Aircraft will return back to the issue of supplies of Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) jets to Iran after the share of US components in the plane sinks to less than 10 percent, the firm’s president, Alexander Rubtsov, said on Thursday.

Iran hanged two men on Wednesday who were accused of hoarding gold in order to manipulate the market.

Hamas leaders largely see the resignation of former Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman as their victory. Speaking to Radio Sputnik, Qanta A. Ahmed, a British-American Muslim, non-fiction author and broadcast media commentator, shared her views on the Islamist organization and the way it spends international aid provided to Palestinians.

Last month, the Daesh (ISIS)* leader was reported to have ordered the execution of 320 of his followers, including senior commanders, for "disloyalty" and "recklessness."

CAIRO (Sputnik) – Qatari and Turkish media have launched a full-scale anti-Riyadh campaign after the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Jubeir said on Thursday.

Earlier in the day, Moscow confirmed that the US-led coalition has resumed airstrikes east of the Euphrates River in Syria, using white phosphorous munitions banned by the international law.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Iran has been in talks with a Pakistani militant group through officials in Islamabad to secure the release of five Iranian border guards kidnapped last month, an Iranian general said.

Earlier, Iran's Ministry of Intelligence accused "hostile" Arab countries in the Middle East of supporting terrorism and sabotage inside Iran.