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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 Erdogan said in a televised speech on Friday that he had ordered 40 troops to be withdrawn from the exercise after his name …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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), …

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 …

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has described Saudi Arabia’s long-running war on Yemen as “stupid,” saying the blockade on the impoverished country must come to an end. Speaking to reporters on Thursday, the UN chief’s spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said Guterres had written a letter to Saudi Arabia’s UN envoy Abdallah al-Mouallimi, asking …

The UN has warned that Yemeni hospitals will run out of fuel within three weeks unless Saudi Arabia removes its blockade on the war-torn country. On Wednesday, UN spokesman Farhan Haq stressed that fuel is critical to the hospitals for generating electricity as well as pumping and purifying water. He added that …

A picture taken on November 14, 2017 shows a Yemeni man driving a motorcycle past what remains of buildings destroyed in Saudi-led airstrikes, in the city of Ta’izz, in Yemen. (By AFP) Rights groups have voiced outrage over Australia’s participation in a training naval drill with Saudi Arabia, which has …

The Iranian president denounces Saudi Arabia’s interference in Lebanon, saying it is “shameful” that a Muslim state has “begged” the Israeli regime to carry out military strikes against the Lebanese nation. “It is very reprehensible and shameful for a Muslim country in the region to beg the Zionist regime [of …