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A top commander of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), also known as Hashd al-Sha’abi, says the paramilitary group has deployed forces to the border with Syria in a bid to support army troops, who have come under militant fire from the war-torn country over the past three days. “After several Iraqi …

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has sent congratulatory messages to Pope Francis and other world leaders ahead of Christmas and the new Gregorian calendar year, expressing hope that the world would see the eradication of discrimination and poverty. In his message to Pope on Sunday, the Iranian president expressed his felicitations over …

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has clashed with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov over cyber attacks and other issues, pushing relations between London and Moscow to their lowest point since the end of the Cold War. The tense comments were made at press conference in Moscow on Friday, the first …

The leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah movement, Abdul Malik Al-Houthi announced a new deterrence equation in retaliation to the US-Saudi aggression, stressing that the range of missiles was expanding and the upper hand shall be for the Yemeni forces. Addressing Yemenis on Tuesday evening in a televised speech marking a thousand …

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Brigadier General Massoud Jazayeri denounced as “absurd” recent remarks made by US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley about Iran’s missile support for Yemen. This person’s comments have their roots in her lack of understanding of military issues, …

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Moscow, Tehran and Ankara see eye to eye on the need to fight terrorism in Syria and maintain its territorial integrity despite pursuing different political agendas. In an address to Russia’s Federation Council, the upper house of the parliament, on Friday, Lavrov hailed the intra-Syrian peace talks in …

Iran’s UN mission has categorically dismissed as “unfounded” US Ambassador Nikki Haley’s claim that a missile fired at Saudi Arabia from Yemen last month was supplied by the Islamic Republic. In a statement released on Thursday, the mission denounced the US allegations as “irresponsible, provocative and destructive,” saying “this purported evidence … is as …

About 100 people were killed and wounded on Wednesday in a series of raids by the Saudi-American warplanes targeting residential areas in Sana’a and Sa’ada. The correspondent of Yemen Press reported the fall of 12 people from the criminal investigation prisoners and injuring 80 others in the initial toll of …

The government of British Prime Minster Theresa May has suffered a fresh blow as lawmakers voted to force changes in London’s Brexit plans, giving Parliament a legal guarantee of a vote on the final Brexit deal struck with Brussels. May was narrowly defeated in a key vote on its Brexit …

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged hastening talks aimed at forming a new coalition government with the Social Democratic Party (SPD). “I favor quick talks. And I think a stable government is the basis on which we can work best with France and for Europe,” said Merkel following a meeting …