JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday warned the West against easing sanctions on Iran to win its support in the fight against jihadists in Syria and Iraq. As the Islamic republic and six world powers started a new round of talks in New York on the Iranian nuclear programme, Netanyahu said “respected commentators in the West” were counselling a softer approach to enlist Tehran in an alliance against Islamic State militants. “They are fighting the IS out of their own interest,” his office quoted him as telling an audience in Jerusalem. “They are struggling over who will be leader of the Islamist world which they seek to impose on the whole world,” he said, referring to Iran.
Jordan arrests 11 alleged IS members
AMMAN: Jordan has arrested 11 members of the Islamic State (IS) group who it said confessed to planning “terrorist operations” in the kingdom, a security official said yesterday. The 11 alleged IS members “admitted their links to the leadership of the Daesh organisation in Syria and that they were charged with carrying out terrorist operations in Jordan targeting a number of vital interests”, the official said, using the IS group’s Arabic acronym. Security forces were continuing their investigation into the group, the source added in comments published by state news agency Petra. Agencies
