US Counterterrorism Coordinator Nathan Sales is traveling to Qatar to discuss that country's contributions to the global campaign against the Islamic State terror group (banned in Russia) among other topics, the State Department said in a press release on Wednesday

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Wednesday slammed the United States and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) secretary-general, Nayef Falah Mubarak Al-Hajraf, over a letter sent to the United Nations Security Council demanding that an arms embargo on Iran be extended

A strong Iran is in the interests of the Middle East, President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday in the wake of the Gulf states' appeal to prolong the arms embargo against the country

US shipments of liquefied natural gas to overseas customers plunged more than 60 percent in the first six months of 2020 due to the novel coronavirus pandemic with liquefaction plants operating at one-third capacity, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in a report on Tuesday