TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Commander Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari said the Iranian military advisers are providing assistance for Yemen’s Houthi Ansarallah movement at the request of the Arabian Peninsula country. “Our assistance to the Resistance Front (countries) has been provided at the request of their ...
Read More »US Gov’t Should Be Punished as War Criminal: Iranian Commander
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Brigadier General Massoud Jazayeri blamed Washington for the emergence of Takfiri terrorist groups like Daesh (ISIS or ISIL), saying the US is complicit in the inhumane crimes committed by the groups. In remarks released on Friday, Brigadier General ...
Read More »Yemenis Responding Saudi Threats by Intensifying War against Aggressors: Official
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A member of the political bureau of Yemen’s Houthi Ansarallah movement shrugged off recent remarks made by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and said Yemen is responding his threats by intensifying the war against the aggressors. Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency, Nasruddin Amer said bin ...
Read More »Tehran Blasts Saudi Crown Prince Bin Salman’s Anti-Iran Remarks
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Tehran on Friday strongly rejected the recent anti-Iran remarks by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, saying he’d better think about what happened to other regional dictators. In an interview with The New York Times published on Thursday, Bin Salman had made an analogy between Iran’s growing ...
Read More »IRGC Chief Hails ISIL Defeat, Says Resistance Front More Powerful
Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Commander Major General Mohammad Ali Jaafari hailed the victory against the Takfiri ISIL group, stressing that the resistance front is now more powerful than before. The Zionist enemy doesn’t dare to attack Lebanon or Gaza, Jaafari told reporters on Thursday. He praised Hezbollah, saying the ...
Read More »Nearly 3,000 Syrian civilians killed in US-led airstrikes in 38 months: Group
A monitoring group says nearly 3,000 civilians have lost their lives in more than three years as the US-led coalition purportedly fighting the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group continues its aerial assaults against residential areas across Syria. The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on Thursday that 2,759 civilians, including 644 ...
Read More »Saudi blockade of Yemen still in place, amounts to collective punishment: Aid agency
A major aid agency says Saudi Arabia’s crippling blockade of Yemen is an “illegal collective punishment” of the Yemeni nation, some seven million of whom are on the brink of an appalling famine. Jan Egeland, a former UN aid chief who now heads the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), made the ...
Read More »Saudi policies fracturing Middle East, threatening peace: Qatar
Saudi Arabia’s “impulsive” and “crisis-making” policies are threatening peace and stability in the Middle East, says Qatar’s Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, accusing the Riyadh regime of making new crises to cover up its past ones. “I come from a region brimming with extremism,” Thani told a Qatar-sponsored ...
Read More »Iraqi volunteer force hints will return return weapons to army after Daesh battle
An Iraqi volunteer military force, which heeded a government call to arms in 2014 to join the fight against Daesh, says it respects the decisions of the national army, hinting that it will act on an order to hand heavy arms back when the counter-terrorism battles end. “The heavy weapons ...
Read More »Iraq launches operation to clear western desert of remaining Daesh terrorists
Iraqi forces have launched a mop-up operation to clear the western desert near Syria of remaining Daesh terrorists, days after they fully liberated all the urban areas from the grip of the Takfiri outfit. Iraqi forces backed by fighters from the Popular Mobilization Units, better known as Hashd al-Sha’abi, launched ...
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