The Islamic organization running the al-Aqsa Mosque compound's affairs has reported a record number of Israeli settlers storming the Muslim holy site in 2022.
The spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry has condemned the anti-Iran articles stipulated in the United States’ Fiscal Year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, saying Tehran has made it clear that it is not seeking nuclear weapons.
A meeting between the Turkish, Syrian and Russian presidents has been scheduled, but not for January, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has said.
The Iranian Army begins large-scale military maneuvers involving various divisions of its forces in a zone spanning from the country’s southern ports and waters to the northern tip of the Indian Ocean.
Russia, wary of NATO’s eastward expansion, began a military campaign in Ukraine on February 24 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:
The Iranian Foreign Ministry has summoned Italy’s Ambassador to Tehran over “meddlesome remarks” by some Italian officials regarding domestic affairs of Iran.
The number of deaths from the Coronavirus pandemic in Iran increased to 144,682 with 5 more patients killed by the deadly disease over the past 24 hours, according to the official figures. The health ministry has warned of a surge in the number of infections and deaths as three cases of the new strain of Covid-19 have been detected in the country.
Benjamin Netanyahu is sworn in as Israel's new prime minister. This is the most far-right, religiously conservative government in the history of Israel with Bibi saying settlement expansion and stopping Iran's nuclear program being among his top priorities.
The United Nations has announced that some "time-critical" programs in Afghanistan have temporarily stopped after Taliban banned women from working for non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
The director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran has said the US’s latest national security strategy document that was published in November explicitly says Washington is confident that Tehran is not after nukes.
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stressed on Thursday that the 2015 Iran nuclear deal has no viable alternatives and that any speculation on a "Plan B" or other options is irresponsible.
Iran’s Army is set to start annual large-scale military drills featuring various divisions of its forces and strategic weapons across a zone stretching from the eastern side of the Hormuz Strait in the Persian Gulf to the northern part of the Indian Ocean.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has noted that Western states have failed to provide any evidence for their claim that Moscow is using Tehran-made unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in its war on Ukraine.
The Iranian interior minister highlights the strategic significance of the country’s southeastern frontiers, saying the Tehran administration is pursuing an agenda to promote border diplomacy with neighboring Pakistan and Afghanistan.
A Yemeni health official says nearly 3,000 civilians, including African refugees, lost their lives or sustained injuries this year as a result of artillery and missile strikes by Saudi military forces in Yemen’s northwestern province of Sa’ada.
Russia, wary of NATO’s eastward expansion, began a military campaign in Ukraine on February 24 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:
Defence ministers of Syria, Russia and Turkey have held talks in Moscow in a clear sign of normalisation between Ankara and Damascus in the decade-long Syrian war.
Fatemeh Qareh Hassanlou, the sister to Iranian doctor Hamid Qareh Hassanlou, who was arrested and given a death penalty over the recent protests in Iran, says her brother has been spared the sentence.
Families of the US soldiers who were killed by the Daesh terror group in the Middle East, have sued French cement giant Lafarge, which had earlier pleaded guilty for supporting terrorists in Syria, reported local media, citing lawsuit documents.