US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has refused to rule out striking targets inside Iran in the wake of repeated strikes on what Washington calls Tehran-linked groups across the Middle East. Iran has warned any attack by the US will be met by crushing response.
The Eurooean Union foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, has rejected cuts to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). Several countries, led by the US, have suspended funding the UN agency in response to Israeli allegations that UNRWA employees were involved in Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel.
In the wake of their thrilling 2-1 victory over Japan, the Iranian national football team, known as Team Melli, found themselves on the brink of the Asian Cup semi-finals.
The West is complicit in the Ukrainian military’s killing of civilians in Donbass, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has claimed. She was referring to the recent Ukrainian attack on a bakery in the city of Lisichansk, apparently involving weaponry provided by Kiev’s allies, which claimed the lives of at least 28 civilians.
Yemen's Houthi movement has announced that the latest wave of airstrikes by the United States and the United Kingdom on the war-ravaged country will not go unpunished.
In a recent announcement, the spokesman of the Iranian Guardian Council revealed that more than 750 candidates for the upcoming parliamentary elections have been vetted and approved.
People in the Iranian capital city of Tehran have taken to the streets to show their tribute to Saeed Alidadi, an Iranian military advisor recently assassinated in an Israeli raid in Syria.
The US and UK say they have launched strikes against 36 targets linked to the Houthis in Yemen, targeting buried weapons storage facilities, missile systems, launchers and other capabilities.
A senior official of the Palestinian movement Hamas has stated any ceasefire deal in the Gaza Strip must entail complete withdrawal of Israeli soldiers and the lifting of Tel Aviv's siege of the territory.
Companies based in Taiwan have sold Russia more than $20 million in advanced equipment that can be used for weapons production, the Washington Post daily has reported, citing “trade records and Russian tax documents”. The newspaper noted that Moscow’s defense sector has ramped up purchases in recent months.
Ukraine has targeted a bakery located in the Russian city of Lisichansk, Lugansk People’s Republic, trapping dozens of people under the rubble. The building was heavily damaged in the strike and partially collapsed, killing aroun two dozen.
Hundreds of Israeli demonstrators took to the streets of Haifa, Rehovot and Tel Avivagainst the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, demanding early elections and the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip.
A court in Pakistan has jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi for seven years, ruling their 2018 marriage violated the Islamic law.
US airstrikes on Iraq on Friday killed at least 16 people, including civilians, and injured 25 others, according to a statement by the Iraqi government spokesperson.
Iran knocked four-times champions Japan out of the 2023 Asian Cup with a 2-1 victory in their quarter-final clash after skipper Alireza Jahanbakhsh converted a penalty in stoppage time at Education City Stadium in Qatar on Saturday.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani has categorically condemned the United States’ military attacks on areas in Iraq and Syria, calling them as adventurism and a strategic mistake.
A recent Israeli public opinion poll showed that nearly half of Israelis want to go to elections immediately after a cease-fire enters into force in the Gaza Strip.
The Syrian military has announced that the US airstrikes that targeted parts of Syria late on Friday killed civilians and military personnel and caused "significant damage".
An Iranian source says the United States’ recent strikes on areas in Iraq and Syria will have serious consequences for Washington’s troops in the region.
Nearly 3,000 regular and reserve Israeli soldiers have been examined by mental health officers since the beginning of the war on Gaza in early October 2023, Israeli army data showed.
More than 800 officials from the United States and Europe have signed a scathing criticism of Western policy towards Israel and Palestine, accusing their governments of possible complicity in war crimes in the Gaza Strip.
Baghdad has condemned in the strongest terms the US military’s airstrikes against dozens of sites in Iraq and neighboring Syria as a “violation of the Iraqi sovereignty".
