Turkey has detained 51 more teachers as part of a massive crackdown on those accused of having links to plotters of a coup attempt last year. Dogan news agency said Monday that arrest warrants had been issued for a total of 107 teachers on suspicions of ties to Fethullah Gulen, ...
Read More »Syrian army, allies make new advances against terrorists across country
Syrian government forces, backed by allied fighters from popular defense groups, have made fresh territorial gains against foreign-sponsored Takfiri terrorists across the conflict-plagued Arab country. Syria’s official news agency, SANA, reported on Monday that Syrian troops and their allies had established full control over the village of Shakhaiter, located 82 ...
Read More »Qatar urges neighbors to let nationals attend 2022 FIFA World Cup
Qatar has urged the four countries engaged in the ongoing Saudi-led diplomatic and trade boycott against the energy-rich Persian Gulf kingdom to allow their nationals to attend the 2022 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup in Doha. “We separate politics from sports. We hope that the blockading nations see reason in ...
Read More »Iran, EU hold high-level talks amid Trump’s threats
Iran and the EU have started their third round of high-level talks following the 2016 implementation of a nuclear deal between the Islamic Republic and world countries. Helga Schmid, the EU’s deputy political director, met Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi in Tehran Monday to discuss issues of mutual interest, the ...
Read More »Erdogan orders withdrawal of Turkish troops from NATO drills
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced the pullout of dozens of Turkish soldiers from a NATO military exercise in Norway after Turk leaders were depicted as the “enemies.” Erdogan said in a televised speech on Friday that he had ordered 40 troops to be withdrawn from the exercise after his name ...
Read More »Qatar accuses Saudi Arabia of bullying small countries into submission
Qatar says Saudi Arabia has been sparking off crises across the Middle East and “bullying small countries into submission,” some six months after Riyadh formed an alliance against Doha and imposed a tight blockade on the small Persian Gulf emirate. Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani made the remarks ...
Read More »Iraqi Forces Launch Operation to Liberate Last Daesh-Held Town
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iraqi forces began a large-scale operation to liberate the town of Rawa, one of the Daesh (ISIS or ISIL) terrorists group’s last footholds in the Arab country. “Rawa’s liberation operations began at dawn today,” Iraq’s Joint Operation Command (IJOC) said in a statement on Friday. A spokesman ...
Read More »Yemeni Army Pounds Saudi Positions in Asir, Najran
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The forces of the Yemeni army and Popular Committees, in retaliatory attacks against the Saudi-led coalition, shelled Saudi military sites in the kingdom’s southwestern border regions of Asir and Najran, inflicting heavy casualties on them. The missile command of the Yemeni army on Thursday attacked gatherings of ...
Read More »Russia vetoes US-drafted resolution on chemical attacks in Syria
Russia has used its veto power in the United Nations Security Council to block a US-drafted resolution that sought to renew a “flawed” international inquiry into chemical weapons attacks in Syria. While 11 members of the Security Council voted on Thursday to extend the mandate for a UN-led Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM), ...
Read More »Iran blasts ‘one-sided, biased’ France views of regional crises
Instead of taking “biased” stances that endanger peace and stability in the Middle East, France and other Western nations need to adopt a “realistic” approach that helps soothe tensions in the region, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi says. “Unfortunately, it seems like France has a one-sided and biased view ...
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