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How Significant is Ma’rib Liberation in Yemen Conflict? Alwaght– Yemen’s Ma’rib province in the past few days has become the central focus of the six-year war. As the Yemeni army and popular committees already consolidated their positions by winning more than a battle against the Saudi and resigned President Abdrabbuh ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Spokesman of Iran’s Foreign Ministry Saeed Khatibzadeh said there is no 5+1 anymore, stressing that the US must lift all sanctions if it wants to rejoin the group. “Reminder: Because of US withdrawal from JCPOA, there is NO P5+1. It is now ONLY Iran and P4+1,” Khatibzadeh wrote ...

Alwaght– White House Spokeswoman Jen Psaki on February 16 said President Joe Biden plans to put the US relations with Saudi Arabia in a new canal and deal only with Saudi King Salman rather than his son and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The move represents a return to ‘counterpart ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Wednesday that his country will continue compensatory measures, including stopping the voluntary implementation of the Additional Protocol, due to the West’s disloyalty to the nuclear deal if the US continues Trump’s failed maximum pressure policy. “The Atomic Energy Organization of ...

Iranian and Russian military vessels conducted the first stage of their naval maneuvers in the Sea of Oman and the northern part of the Indian Ocean by unleashing fire on designated targets and squaring up in offensive formations in light of regional threats. Tuesday marked the first day of the ...

Alwaght– Over the past decade, ambitions of Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and the UAE de facto ruler Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to transform the Persian Gulf Arab state into a regional power and a leading nation in the Arab world have been a source of differences with most important ...

Beirut – Hezbollah Secretary General His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah warned the ‘Israeli’ enemy that the Lebanese resistance movement will strike sensitive Zionist military targets in case the enemy used a similar pretext to bomb Lebanese cities. In a televised speech on Tuesday marking Hezbollah’s Martyr Leaders Day, Sayyed Nasrallah ...

Alwaght– Operation Eagle Claw 2 is the latest in a series of Turkey’s operations in neighboring Iraq’s north. Over the past few days, fierce clashes erupted between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party and the Turkish forces in Garreh Mountain in Duhok province of the Kurdistan region. The operation comes as in ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian Army Ground Force on Sunday test-fired its new smart missile with the range of 300km. The Army Ground Force’s missile unit is testing a smart missile with a range of 300 km in one of the regions of the country, Commander of the Iranian Army Ground Force ...

Syria’s air defenses neutralized the latest ‘Israeli’ act of aggression against the western outskirts of the capital Damascus. The Syrian forces responded to the Zionist attacks in the skies over the capital, Damascus, for several hours early Monday, state-run SANA news agency reported. The report, however, did not give details ...