Iranian filmmaker Ramin Hosseinpour, writer, director, and producer of the short film Soratgar (The Portrait Maker), won the Best Director and Best Short Screenplay awards at the New York International Film Awards in December 2024 and January 2025.
Iran's Foreign Minister, Seyed Abbas Araqchi, stressed the powerful presence of the Resistance Front in the region, stating: "Our enemies should know that we remain strong, hopeful, and highly motivated in the field, and we will not allow their blows to undermine our faith and resolve."
The Donald Trump administration's Ukraine peace envoy, Keith Kellogg, has postponed a visit to Kyiv until after the president-elect is inaugurated on Jan. 20, Reuters reported, citing four sources with knowledge of the trip.
Ukrainian soldiers repelled 94 Russian ground attacks in Russia's Kursk Oblast over the past day, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces has reported amid escalating hostilities in the region.
The United States has transferred 11 detainees out of Guantánamo Bay to Oman, the latest batch of inmates to leave the infamous facility in Cuba that once held around 780 detainees.
The head of Iran's Export Confederation, has stressed the critical importance of Iran joining the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) for the development and strengthening of foreign trade.
US envoy Amos Hochstein has stated that the Israeli army will continue withdrawing from all Lebanese territories even though the mission is complex and challenging, avoiding direct comment on Tel Aviv's possible extended presence in southern Lebanon beyond a 60-day cease-fire period.
Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree has stated that the Yemen-based group’s armed forces launched a “specific and joint military operation targeting the American aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman using two winged missiles and four drones”.
The US Central Command (CENTCOM) has announced that the military operations against Daesh in Iraq in the last seven days have left a coalition member dead.
Turkey has stressed that it is “only a matter of time” before Kurdish-led armed groups in Syria are wiped out, and that Ankara will not agree to any situation allowing the Kurdish militants to maintain a presence there after the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The Iranian embassy in the United Kingdom has censured Conservative British MP Tom Tugendhat for endorsing of the “arbitrary assassination” of Iran’s top anti-terror commander General Qassem Soleimani, ordered by former US president Donald Trump.
The Iranian Air Defense Command Headquarters has launched the first phase of a joint exercise, code-named "Power Exercise," at the Natanz nuclear defense zone, in central Iran.
The Magistrate Court of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank has ordered the shutting down of several Al Jazeera websites for four months – the latest restriction by the Palestinian Authority (PA) on the Qatari-based network.
French President Emmanuel Macron has raised concern over Tehran’s nuclear programme, describing Iran as the main “strategic and security challenge” for Europeans in the Middle East.
The United Nations has expressed grave concern after the death of a one-month-old baby in Gaza due to hypothermia, marking the eighth such a fatality in less than three weeks.
Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi recently visited the charity bazaar of the Diplomatic Women's Association of the Foreign Ministry, accompanied by his wife, Ms. Arezu Ahmadvand.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei emphasized that all regional states should respect the decisions being made by the people of Syria following the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad.
The Israeli army has warned its personnel traveling abroad that they risk arrest after one army soldier fled Brazil while being investigated for possible war crimes in the Gaza Strip, local media has reported.
