Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh announced that the Islamic Republic’s “strategic patience” with terrorist groups along Iran-Iraq border in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region has come to an end. Addressing his weekly press conference on Monday, Khatibzadeh called on authorities of Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and also the Iraqi ...
Read More »Taliban Killed 13 Members of Hazara Ethnic Group – Report
The Taliban killed at least 13 members of the Hazara ethnic group, including a 17-year-old girl, in the central province of Daykundi, shortly after they took power in Afghanistan, according to a new report from Amnesty International. On August 30, a convoy of 300 Taliban fighters entered Khidr district and ...
Read More »Iran, Armenia Vow to Broaden Bilateral Ties
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian and his Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan in a meeting in Tehran on Monday underlined the need to broaden mutual cooperation in different fields. During the meeting in the Iranian capital today, the Iranian and Armenian foreign ministers explored avenues for bolstering and reinvigorating bilateral ...
Read More »Anti-War Groups Urge US Congress to End Support for Saudi War in Yemen, Prevent Human Catastrophe
Anti-war groups in the United States are urging the Congress to “prevent a human catastrophe” in Yemen by ending military support for Saudi Arabia’s aggression on the war-ravaged country. The 56 organizations called on American lawmakers in a letter to take advantage of the National ‘Defense’ Authorization Act [NDAA] to ...
Read More »US Global Wars Cost 900k Lives, $8 Trillion Over Two Decades
The US so-called war on terror has taken almost one million lives across the globe and cost the country $8 trillion, over the past two decades, says a new report. A report issued by Costs of War Project at Brown University, at end of the disastrous US withdrawal from Afghanistan, ...
Read More »Ansarullah Urges US, Saudis to Prepare Plan to Retreat from Yemen after Afghanistan
In the wake of America’s disgraceful withdrawal from Afghanistan after a futile war, a senior Yemeni official called on the United States and Saudi Arabia to draw up a plan for pullout from Yemen as well, warning that the Arab country will eventually turn into a “graveyard for the aggressors.” ...
Read More »Enforced Disappearance: A Crime against Humanity Systematically Practiced by Saudi Arabia
On the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearance, which is commemorated every year on August 30, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stressed that, despite being “strictly prohibited by international human rights law in all circumstances, enforced disappearances continue to be used worldwide as a means of repression, intimidation and ...
Read More »Fox News: 12 US Servicemen Killed, Dozens Wounded in Explosion Outside Kabul Airport
A suicide bomb attack Thursday outside the Abbey Gate at Kabul’s airport in Afghanistan killed 12 US service members and wounded dozens more, US officials told Fox News. Officials told Fox News that those killed included 11 Marines and a Navy medic. Meanwhile there are dozens of Americans wounded in the ...
Read More »Biden: We will not be Deterred, US Evacuation to Continue after Kabul Airport
Addressing the deadly bombings at the Kabul airport, US President Joe Biden vowed retaliation against Daesh [Arabic acronym for the terrorist “ISIS” / “ISIL”] and said that the US won’t stop the evacuation, while noting that attacks are likely to continue “beyond today.” After acknowledging the deaths of 12 US ...
Read More »Sayyed Nasrallah: When Dealing with the Developments, We must Look for Our Responsibilities
Hezbollah Secretary General His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah urged followers to be mindful of their Taklif [religious mandate] when dealing with political, security, economic, and social events and developments that have repercussions on those around them. In his speech during the fifth night of Muharram at the central Ashura commemorations ...
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