Saudis destabilizing Middle East, paying for US-Israeli crimes: Hezbollah official
Press TV – The deputy secretary general of Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has described Saudi Arabia as the root cause of instability…
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Yemeni forces fire 17 retaliatory missiles at Saudi Arabia’s Asir
Press TV – Yemeni forces and allied fighters from Popular Committees have fired 17 missiles at Saudi Arabia’s southwestern Asir region in retaliation for…
Syria: West practicing economic ‘terrorism’ against Damascus
AP — Syria’s ambassador to the United Nations on Friday accused the United State and the European Union of practicing “economic terrorism”…
Final round of ‘Astana Peace Talks’ to be held in July
MNA – The attending parties in Astana Process on Syrian peace in Nur-Sultan city of Kazakhstan agreed to hold the final round…
New round of Syria peace talks begins in Kazakhstan
Tasnim – A fresh round of multilateral negotiations for establishing peace in Syria within a framework known as the Astana process kicked…
Saudis disregarding human life callously: Amnesty Int’l
IRNA – The execution of 37 people marks an alarming escalation in Saudi Arabia’s use of the death penalty ‘to crush dissent…
Saudi Arabia beheads 37 people, mostly from Shia minority, puts body on display
RT – Riyadh has drawn outrage from human rights advocates after it put to death 37 people and displayed a mutilated body…
Saudi Arabia seeking face-saving withdrawal from Yemen
IRNA – Saudi Arabia seems to making every endavor to pull itself out of quagmire of Yemen conflict, the deadly theater which…
Iraqi parliamentary summit kicks off in Baghdad
IRNA – Iraq’s parliamentary summit kicked off in Baghdad on Saturday bringing together regional powers, including Iran, in a show of unity.…
Aid charity Oxfam warns of ‘massive resurgence of cholera’ in Yemen
Press TV – Oxfam International, a confederation of 20 independent charitable organizations, has warned of a “massive resurgence of cholera” amid an…
Military Source: Reports of some websites and media outlets about clashes between Russian and Iranian troops in Syria are untrue
SANA – A military source announced on Saturday that it is categorically untrue what has been broadcast by a number of websites…
Assad, Russian envoy discuss upcoming Astana meeting
IRNA – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Russian President’s Special Envoy to Syria Alexander Lavrentiev on Friday dealt with the agenda of…
Israel emolishes Palestinian home in West Bank
Tasnim – Israeli forces demolished the house of Palestinian prisoner Arafat Irfaiya, 19, in the Wadi al-Harya in Hebron, southern occupied West…
Syrian fuel queues grow, report cites Iranian credit freeze
Reuters – Syria has suffered oil shortages since an Iranian credit line was halted six months ago and not one oil tanker…
Trump vetoes congressional resolution to end US role in Yemen war
Sputnik – President Donald Trump in a letter to the Senate said he is rejecting a measure passed by Congress to end…
EU rejects Israeli claim to Golan, other occupied territory
Press TV – The European Union’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini has once again expressed the 28-nation bloc’s disapproval of the Israeli…
Oman’s flexibility to Tel Aviv: Goals, consequences?
Alwaght – The Omani Foreign Minister Yusuf bin Alawi in a speech delivered to the World Economic Forum for the Middle East…
At least 6 civilians killed in terrorist rocket attack on Syria’s Aleppo
Press TV – At least six civilians have lost their lives after a barrage of rockets fired by terrorists hit some neighborhoods of…
Iraqi FM: Golan is Syrian territory
IRNA – Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammad Ali al-Hakim said on Sunday that his country rejects the US president’s allegations on the occupied…
Syria’s air defenses intercept Israeli missiles fired at Hama military base
Press TV – Damascus says its air defenses have intercepted some of the Israeli missiles fired at a Syrian military base near…
Deadly blast hits Pakistan’s Quetta
Tasnim – At least 16 people have been killed and another 30 wounded as an explosion ripped through a market in the…
Taliban says it fired deadly missile at largest US air base in Afghanistan
MNA – In a tweet, Taliban spokesman Zabihollah Mujahid said that the Afghan armed group launched a missile at Bagram Air Base,…
IPU condemns US recognition of Golan Heights as part of Israel
IRNA – The President of the International Parliamentary Union (IPU) Gabriela Cuevas Barron issued a statement condemning a recent move by the…
At least 9 people killed in car bomb attacks in Syria’s Raqqah
Press TV – At least nine civilians, including children, have been killed and a number of others wounded after two explosives-laden vehicles…
Trump’s recognition of Golan Heights as Israeli flouts intl. law: Aoun
Press TV – Lebanese President Michel Aoun has strongly condemned US President Donald Trump’s recognition of the occupied Syrian Golan Heights as…
Saudi welcomes US blacklisting of Iran Revolutionary Guards
Reuters – Saudi Arabia welcomes the U.S. decision to designate Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a foreign terrorist organization, Saudi state…
Saudi Arabia has not demonstrated nuclear transparency: Heinonen
Iranian Diplomacy | Javad Heirannia: Olli Heinonen, the former deputy director general for safeguards at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), says…
New Saudi airstrikes kill 13 civilians, including schoolchildren, in Yemen
Press TV – More than a dozen civilians, most of them schoolchildren, have been killed in the latest round of airstrikes by Saudi…
Saudi reopens consulate in Iraq amid warming Iran ties
Press TV – Saudi Arabia has reopened its consulate in Iraq as Riyadh seeks closer ties with Baghdad amid Iran’s growing relations…
Iraq closes border crossing with Iran due to floods: sources
Reuters – Iraq on Saturday closed its Sheeb border crossing with Iran to travelers and trade until further notice, Iraqi security sources…
Israeli forces injure 80 Gazans
Press TV – Israeli forces have attacked Palestinians taking part in an anti-occupation protest along the edge of the besieged Gaza Strip,…
Bad time to nuclearize Saudis: US Senators warn Trump
Press TV – bipartisan group of American lawmakers have raised concerns about Washington’s nuclear dealings with Saudi Arabia despite Crown Prince Mohammed…
Trump’s Golan decision, nuke deal with Saudi aimed at forming anti-Iran alliance: Analyst
Tasnim – An American political scientist said the Trump administration’s secret plan to nuclearize Saudi Arabia and its recognition of Israel’s ‘sovereignty’…
US Golan decision to antagonize Muslim world: Pak analyst
IRNA – A senior Pakistani analyst strongly condemned the US recognition of the Golan Heights as Zionist regime’s territory, and said that…
Taliban not to participate in next Peace Jirga, group spokesman tells MNA
MNA – In an interview with Mehr News Agency, Taliban spokesman Zabihollah Mujahid said group will not take part in the next…
Speaker: Trump decision on Golan threatening Lebanon
IRNA – Speaker of the parliament of Lebanon Nabih Berri said US President’s choice for Golan Heights is threatening Lebanon and solving…
Israel’s killing of Gazans may amount to war crimes: UN
Press TV – A UN fact-finding mission says Israeli forces committed rights violations during their crackdown against Palestinian protesters in the Gaza…
MbS absent from key meetings, stripped of some financial powers: Report
Press TV – Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has reportedly been stripped of some his powers and has not attended a…
US military now preparing to leave as many as 1,000 troops in Syria
The Wall Street Journal | Dion Nissenbaum and Nancy A. Youssef: The U.S. military is crafting plans to keep nearly 1,000 forces…
Syria underlines liberation of all occupied areas
IRNA – Syria’s defense minister on Monday stressed liberation of all areas occupied by terrorist groups. Syria has already not started the…