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Rai Al-Youm newspaper said that a high-ranking Saudi delegation visited the Syrian capital, Damascus, and met with Damascus government officials. The newspaper quoted high-ranking diplomatic sources in Damascus as saying that a Saudi delegation headed by the head of the intelligence service, Lieutenant General Khaled Al-Humaidan, visited the Syrian capital ...

The Yemeni resistance launched operations against military positions in Najran Airport and King Khalid Air Base in the kingdom’s southwest, a spokesman said. Spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces, Brigadier General Yehya Saree, said in a series of tweets on Monday that four Qasef-2K drones and two Badr ballistic missiles ...

TEHRAN, May 04 (MNA) – Executive Director of US Arms Control Association, Daryl G. Kimball, believes that it is not something new at this point that the Biden administration is prepared to waive the nuclear-related sanctions identified in the JCPOA. In an interview with Mehr News Agency (MNA), Daryl G. Kimball, ...

TEHRAN (IQNA) – The spiritual rituals of Laylat al-Qadr (Night of Qadr) were held in mosques and other places in cities and towns across Iran on Monday night and early Tuesday morning. The Palestine Square in downtown Tehran was among the places that hosted the religious program on the night ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Health Minister Saeed Namaki said that the Basij (volunteer) forces play an important role in proper implementation of public vaccination program against COVID-19 virus and controlling the disease. “In the vaccination program, we should be able to vaccinate all target groups, and the capacity of Basij’s cooperation ...

In an opinion piece published by the ‘Jerusalem Post’, former Zionist Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wrote that the events that have transpired in occupied al-Quds these last few days are not a coincidental occurrence that will disappear so quickly. “We are on the brink of a violent awakening that could ...

Political commentator Professor Tim Anderson shed light on the case of Kylie Moore-Gilbert, an Australian-British citizen who served a prison sentence over espionage charges in Iran, highlighting US media’s dishonesty in intentional concealing of the truth about Tehran’s assertion that the academic lecturer had passed a special training course under ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Deputy Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said that his country will stop its retaliatory nuclear measures only once it verifies removal of all sanctions by Washington. “The lifting of all American sanctions is the first step to revive Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action,” Araqchi said at the virtual ...

Alwaght– The ninth “Heart of Asia-Istanbul Process” on Afghanistan was held in Tajikistan capital Dushanbe on Monday. The summit, with “strengthening consensus for peace and development” as its slogan, kicked off with the speeches of President Emomali Rahmon of Tajikistan and President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan. The security challenges and ...

Alwaght- As the heat season arrives, the power shortage again presents itself in Iraq as a top challenge and concerning case for the government in Baghdad. In past years, power shortage sparked protests especially in the southern provinces, with the ptotesters expressing discontent with the poor government performance in supplying ...