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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 …

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 …

 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Iraqi security officials say government forces have found a mass grave in the country’s northern province of Nineveh, containing the bodies of dozens of members of Izadi minority, who are believed to have been executed by Takfiri Daesh terrorists when they were in control of a terrain. Local official Chokor …

The leaders of Russia, Turkey, and Iran will meet on Wednesday in Sochi to discuss joint efforts on how to bring lasting peace to Syria. The three countries previously agreed to be guarantors of the Syrian peace process. RT–  Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and …

The Iraqi foreign ministry on Monday expressed reservations on the final statement issued by the Arab League after the emergency meeting of a number of Arab foreign ministers, rejecting mixing up between the political stances and the bold accusation of supporting terror. In a statement the Iraqi foreign ministry voiced …

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Islamic Republic is prepared to cooperate with the United Nations and all its affiliated bodies to promote stability in Afghanistan. Zarif made the remarks in a meeting with Special Representative for UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan Tadamichi Yamamoto in Tehran on Monday. …