With the advent of the Iranian New Year on Wednesday, holidaymakers across Iran travel to other cities to visit their families and relatives, or find a resort to chillax after a year of hard work, or just zip across the four corners of the country.
Russia's foreign intelligence (SVR) top brass said London is preparing to send 2,000 forces to Ukraine. Sergey Naryshkin added any French military unit sent to Ukraine to help it fight Russia would be a "priority" target for the Russian Army.
The United Kingdom has reportedly poured millions into protecting Israeli ships in the Red Sea since the conflict between Israel and Palestine first began in October, with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak becoming ninth prime minister to use the RAF to bomb Yemen.
Iranians gathered on Wednesday in the tomb of the 14th century poet Hafez, better known as Hafezieh, in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz to celebrate the advent of Nowruz, or the Persian New Year.
The World Health Organization has issued another stark warning about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip as a WHO spokesperson warned a growing number of infants there are on the “brink of death” from acute hunger.
The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has congratulated Nowruz, the Persian New Year, by releasing a poster of a few high-profile athletes of the country.
A massive number of pilgrims were in Imam Reza’s holy shrine, the eighth Shia imam, in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad at 06:36 local time (03:06 GMT) on Wednesday to celebrate the start of the Persian New Year, 1403.
The Canadian government will halt future arms exports to Israel, even though the motion approved by the House of Commons, is not legally binding, Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly has stated.
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has called for serious practical steps to cease Israel’s raids on the Gaza Strip in his New Year message to Asian countries celebrating Nowruz.
Israel could use starvation as a "method of war" in the besieged Gaza Strip by obstructing the entry of humanitarian assistance to the enclave, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Tuerk has stated.
The two top US generals who oversaw the evacuation of Afghanistan as it fell to the Taliban in August 2021 blamed the administration of President Joe Biden for the chaotic departure, telling American lawmakers that it inadequately planned for the evacuation and did not order it in time.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to call off a major ground offensive against the southern tip of the Gaza Strip, shrugging off a US warning that the operation will kill more civilians and worsen a humanitarian crisis in the besieged enclave.
Active and former military personnel from NATO countries have long been operating in Ukraine, overseeing Kiev’s use of West-supplied weapons, El Pais has reported.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has named the Persian New Year as the year of "surge in production through people's participation".
Moscow is well aware of NATO’s bids to court post-Soviet republics in the South Caucasus, but the bloc’s overtures will bring no benefit to the region, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has stated.
Millions of people in Iran and several other countries are celebrating Persian New Year, Nowruz, an ancient festivity that marks the beginning of the spring and the renewal of nature.
Ukraine’s very survival in fighting Russia could be at stake unless the western states send more military aid, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has warned.
Yerevan could face a war with Azerbaijan if it does not compromise with Baku and return four Azerbaijani villages it has held since the early 1990s, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated in a video published on Tuesday.
As the countdown to the New Year inches closer, the bustling streets of Tehran witness a flurry of activity as residents flock to the Tajrish market in north of the capital. With just a few hours left, citizens are fervently engaged in purchasing essential items and textiles to ring in the new year.
Yemen has slammed the United Nations Security Council for condemning its pro-Palestine maritime operations in the Red Sea, saying that the world body is “dangerously” serving US interests and supporting the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
The “painful and slow death" of 23 children in the north of Gaza due to malnutrition and dehydration "would be the tip of the iceberg" as only those who reached hospitals are reported, UNICEF’s deputy executive director Ted Chaiban has warned.
In a recent telephone conversation, Iranian President Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin on his re-election and expressed hope for enhanced bilateral cooperation between Iran and Russia.
