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Palestine’s envoy to the United Nations Riyad Mansour says the Israeli regime has created an apartheid state in the occupied territories by approving “the Jewish nation-state law.” Speaking at a UN Security Council meeting on the Middle East on Tuesday, Mansour said the Tel Aviv regime had adopted the role …

Political experts believe that after Saudi Arabia and its regional and international allies failed to conquer Yemen’s Hudaydah port through military force, they are currently turning to diplomatic means in order to reach a settlement with the Houthi Ansarullah fighters, thus attesting to ability of the country’s popular forces to …

The Iran men’s national basketball B team has maintained its fine style at the 2018 William Jones Cup in Taiwan, and edged past Indonesia. On Saturday, the Iranian sportsmen defeated the Indonesian squad 66-62 (23-19, 14-9, 13-18 and 16-17) in a match played at the Xinzhuang Gymnasium of New Taipei City. The Iran men’s …

In this file picture, Yemeni forces prepare to launch a domestically-manufactured Badr-1 ballistic missile at a military site in Saudi Arabia’s southern border region of Najran. (Photo by the media bureau of Yemen’s Operations Command) Yemeni army forces, supported by allied fighters from Popular Committees, have fired a domestically-designed and …

Yemeni army, backed by fighters from allied Popular Committees, has attacked a refinery of the Saudi oil company Aramco in the capital Riyadh using a new drone unveiled on Wednesday, with the kingdom confirming a fire at the plant. (AhlulBayt News Agency) – Yemeni army, backed by fighters from allied Popular …

On the sidelines of his meeting with EP’s Chairman of Foreign Affairs Committee David McAllister, Mr. Velayati dismissed any compromise over Iran’s missile program. (MNA) — “To defend our country, based on our national interests, we move on the evolutionary path of missile program and it is totally irrelevant to …

Indications are growing that Chinese companies are scrapping plans to purchase oil from the United States and are instead turning to Iran for imports in what appears to be a result of escalating trade tariff war between Beijing and Washington.   Sinopec, Asia’s top refiner, was quoted by media as …

President Hassan Rouhani says new US sanctions are aimed at targeting the Iranian nation, adding the plan has made Washington more isolated than ever, even among its allies. “Today, the United States is isolated in the public opinion of the world, and is even more secluded among the Iranian people …

The toll from a suicide attack at an election rally in southwestern Pakistan in the second election-related attack on Friday hit 128 people killed, officials said, amid growing tensions over ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s return ahead of the July 25 vote. The bombing was the most deadly attack in …

US President Donald Trump’s first official visit to the UK after assuming office comes between a NATO summit in Brussels and a meeting on Monday in Helsinki with Russian President Vladimir Putin. During a brief visit to Britain, on the heels of a tense NATO summit in Brussels, Trump scrambled …