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Iraq’s parliament approved the resignation of Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdis cabinet on Sunday, after two months of violent unrest. Parliament opened its session on Sunday afternoon and within minutes had approved Abdel Mahdi’s resignation, which according to the constitution renders him and the entire cabinet a “caretaker government.” The …

Iran’s Navy has announced the mass production of the indigenously-designed and submarine-launched “Jask” cruise missile along with unveiling a handful of other military projects and technological achievements. Navy chief Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi announced the mass production of the Jask missile while visiting a Navy exhibition showcasing a number of …

Yemeni war media center published on Saturday scenes of the Saudi Apache helicopter which was downed by the Yemeni air defense earlier on Friday in Assir. The video shows the Apache helicopter, which was flying in the Yemeni airspace, accurately hit with a surface-to-air missile. The helicopter was then seen …

Several people injured in a stabbing in London were in a serious condition, the city’s mayor Sadiq Khan said, after police confirmed Friday they were treating it as a “terrorist incident”. “It has been confirmed that a number of people were injured, some seriously,” Khan told reporters. One man who …

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said he would submit to the parliament an official letter requesting his resignation. Abdul Mahdi said that he listened to the statement of the religious authority which cited the hard socio-economic conditions in Iraq, adding that his decision aims at paving way for the …

Iranian security forces have arrested eight people linked to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the recent riots over gasoline price hikes. A number of elements that were seeking to collect information on the riots and transfer it to foreign countries were identified and arrested before they could carry …

La rápida visita de Mike Pence, el vicepresidente de EEUU, a Al Anbar, y concretamente a la base de Ain al Assad, donde se reunió con tropas norteamericanas, ha sido patética. Rechazado y humillado cuando las autoridades iraquíes se negaron a recibirlo, Pence comenzó a amenazar al Estado iraquí y …

The Army Command – Orientation Directorate – issued on Tuesday a statement touching on the security meeting held at the office of Army Commander General Joseph Aoun in Yarzeh, attended by General Security Chief Abbas Ibrahim, Director General of State Security Tony Saliba and Director General of Internal Security Forces …

Hezbollah denounced, in a statement, the horrific crime which took place Monday on Al-Jiyyeh highway and claimed the two martyrs Hussein Shalhoub and Sanaa Al-Jondi. “The two martyrs were burnt to death inside the car which crashed after it was attacked by the militiamen and bandits who resort to the ugliest …

TEHRAN (FNA)- Participants in the massive rallies in Tehran on Monday in their final resolution condemned the US and other enemies’ support for the recent riots in Iran, and stressed allegiance to the Supreme Leader and the establishment. Hundreds of thousands of people in the capital city of Tehran poured …