China’s Foreign Minister Qin Gang has been suddenly replaced by his predecessor Wang Yi in a surprise shake-up to China’s foreign policy leadership. Qin had been missing from the public eye for a month without explanation.
Iran’s permanent ambassador to the United Nations Amir Saeid Iravani has reiterated Tehran's commitment to supporting Syria in its fight against threats posed by terror groups, and preserving its territorial integrity and sovereignty.
A Russian delegation led by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu is beginning a three-day visit to North Korea on Tuesday, according to the Russian Defense Ministry and North Korean state media.
Iranian naval forces have received a new missile that is named after allied Iraqi Commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, whom an Iranian commander says the country hopes to avenge using the same missile.
People across Egypt have been left frustrated while struggling to complete daily tasks in the heat because of constant power cuts. The outages, which are primarily affecting villages in Upper Egypt, as well as the Delta region and the capital Cairo, come amidst soaring temperatures of 40C to 50C this year.
Three Palestinians have been shot dead by the Israeli military in northern West Bank, the latest deaths in a surge of violence in the occupied territory since early last year.
Pakistan’s Election Commission has issued an arrest warrant for former Prime Minister Imran Khan. The ex-premier faces a contempt charge for allegedly using “intemperate language” against government officials.
The deputy commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Cords (IRGC) says the country will act in kind if the United States empties the cargo of an Iranian tanker that it has illegally seized to use or sell.
Secretary General of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has stated that the Israeli far-right cabinet's insistence on pushing ahead with its controversial judicial overhaul plan has put the regime on the path to collapse.
Russia, wary of NATO’s eastward expansion, began a military campaign in Ukraine in February 2022 after the Western-leaning Kiev government turned a deaf ear to Moscow’s calls for its neighbor to maintain its neutrality. In the middle of the mayhem, Moscow and Kiev are trying to hammer out a peaceful solution to the conflict. Follow the latest about the Russia-Ukraine conflict here:
Iran’s Fars News Agency cited an unnamed security official as saying that Iranian intelligence has dealt a huge blow to what he described as the biggest terrorist network in Iran in 20 years.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi emphasized the necessity of solving regional issues by the countries of the region. He stated that Iran, by supporting the peace talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan, hopes that these negotiations will establish and strengthen peace, security and stability in the region as much as possible.
The Israeli parliament, or Knesset, has voted into law a controversial curb on some supreme court powers submitted by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. The final vote on the bill passed 64-0, after the opposition boycotted it in protest.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani blamed the US government for the prolongation of the process of prisoner swap between the two countries.
A former senior member of an intelligence agency linked to an Iraqi Kurdish party was killed in a car bomb blast in the city of Dohuk in Iraq's Kurdistan region, a security source told Reuters.
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry says security forces have disbanded a “large terrorist network” and arrested its members, who were planning to carry out numerous terrorist attacks across Iran.
Israeli soldiers have arrested as many as 570 Palestinian minors since the beginning of the year, according to a new report released by a Palestinian rights advocacy group.
Former Israeli soldiers raised an "extraordinary alert" over the "deep fracture" in the military caused by the ongoing judicial crisis. In a joint statement, they stressed that the situation is far worse than what the army leadership has described and is now affecting active-duty soldiers.
Mohammad-Amin Haji-Hashemi, the managing director of Iran Computer and Video Games Foundation, has said that Iran enjoys the first place among the regional countries and the Muslim world in the production of computer games scientific output.
The mayor of Moscow, Sergey Sobyanin, stated that there was “no major damage following an attempted Ukrainian drone strike" against the Russian capital on Monday morning. The drones crashed into "non-residential buildings after the military suppressed them using electronic warfare means."
At least 31 people have been killed and dozens more are missing due to heavy flooding from seasonal rains in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, more than a dozen people died as heavy rains and landslides hit neighbouring Pakistan.
Figures by the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) shows that Iran’s natural gas production rose by 2% in 2022 despite sanctions imposed on the country’s energy sector.
