An Iraqi commander has rejected calls for the disbanding of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), also known by their Arabic name as Hashd al-Sha’abi, which have played a major role in pushing out the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group. Ahmad al-Assadi, one of the PMU’s leaders, was quoted by AFP as saying that “any such ...
Read More »Yemen’s Houthi fighters say missile attack launched at Abu Dhabi nuclear plant
Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement says it has fired a cruise missile at a nuclear power plant in the United Arab Emirates capital, Abu Dhabi. “The missile force announces the launching of a winged cruise missile … towards the al-Barakah nuclear reactor in Abu Dhabi,” the Houthis’ al-Masirah news website reported on Sunday, without providing further details. Yemeni ...
Read More »Diphtheria cases rising in Yemen amid vaccine shortage: WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned against the rising number of diphtheria cases in Yemen amid a dire shortage of vaccine caused by the Saudi-led blockade of the impoverished country. So far, out of 197 registered diphtheria cases in Yemen, 22 patients have died as a result of the ...
Read More »Turkey: US trial of gold trader meant to ‘corner’ economy
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has denounced as politically motivated a recent testimony given by Turkish businessman Reza Zarrab in a US court implicating President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in an alleged Iran sanctions-busting scheme. Speaking in Istanbul on Friday, Yildirim said he hoped Zarrab, a Turkish citizen of Iranian descent, ...
Read More »Syria fires missiles at Israeli aircraft after Israeli missiles hit near Damascus: Report
The Syrian army has fired at least four surface-to-air missiles at Israeli aircraft as the regime launched an attack against the western countryside of Syria’s capital Damascus, reports say. The Arabic-language al-Masdar news agency, citing an unnamed source, said the Syrian military’s anti-aircraft missiles were fired from the Mezzeh Airbase ...
Read More »Top Syrian negotiator rejects Riyadh-2 communiqué
Syria’s ambassador to the United Nations and head of the Syrian delegation to the intra-Syrian peace talks in Geneva says has strongly condemned the foreign-sponsored armed opposition over a communiqué, which demands the resignation of President Bashar al-Assad and his exclusion from governing Syria during a transitional period. “As long as ...
Read More »Iranian wrestler sacrifices gold medal to avoid Zionist occupier
An Iranian wrestler has decided to forgo his title and gold medal in the world championship in Poland in order to avoid fighting with an Israeli wrestler. Alireza Karimi, 23, decided to sacrifice his chances at taking the championship title in solidarity with the suffering people of Palestine and forfeited ...
Read More »Yemen’s Houthi leader threatens to hit back over Saudi blockade
The leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah movement, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, has promised retaliatory attacks in response to a land, aerial and naval blockade imposed on his impoverished country by a Saudi-led military alliance. Addressing his supporters via a televised speech from the Yemeni capital Sana’a on Thursday, Houthi warned against “tightening the blockade.” ...
Read More »At least 800 civilians killed in US-led strikes in Iraq, Syria: Pentagon
This photo taken on September 5, 2017, shows smoke billowing (Photo by AFP) The US-led coalition purportedly fighting the Daesh terrorist group has confirmed that hundreds of people have lost their lives as a result of aerial attacks by the military alliance against the alleged positions of the Takfiri outfit in Iraq ...
Read More »UN Syria Envoy Starts in Geneva Rounds of Talks with Gov’t, Opp. Delegations Separately
The UN Syria envoy Staffan Du Mistura started on Thursday in Geneva successive rounds of talks with the government and the opposition delegations separately. With the beginning of the eighth round of Geneva talks on Syria, Du Mistura highlighted the importance of achieving a breakthrough in the political process for ...
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