Tehran (Iran News) – Turkish army forces amassed near the border town in north-eastern Syria on Monday evening, according to a report. The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported that the Turkish army on Monday evening “launched an assault on a number of areas in Hasaka northeastern countryside.” Iran News quotes the report. The agency […]

Over the span of just a few hours, U.S. President Donald Trump upended his own policy on Syria with a chaotic series of pronouncements, blindsiding foreign allies, catching senior Republican supporters off guard and sending aides scrambling to control the damage. Trump’s decision on Sunday to remove some U.S. forces from northeastern Syria, opening the […]

Tehran (Iran News) – The European Union must match the Brexit compromise made by Britain to secure a deal, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s spokesman said on Monday, adding British negotiators were ready to continue talks at pace. The spokesman acknowledged that the talks on a Brexit deal were subject to time pressure, and said Johnson […]

A second whistleblower, with first-hand knowledge of President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine, has spoken with the intelligence community’s internal watchdog, the lawyer representing the official said on Sunday. Mark Zaid confirmed in an interview with ABC’s “This Week” that the second official, also from the US intelligence community, has been interviewed by the inspector […]

Tehran (Iran News) – At least 60 shops were gutted in a fire that broke out in a district bazaar in Afghanistan’s northern province of Takhar overnight, local police said Monday. “A fire that raged in Rustaq district bazaar in northern Afghanistan on Sunday night was extinguished early Monday but the fire turned to ashes […]

Tehran (Iran News) – The Russian embassy in the United States sent a note of protest to the US State Department over FBI questioning of a Russian lawmaker in a New York airport overnight. Russian deputy Inga Yumasheva was questioned for an hour by the FBI upon arrival in New York, the Russian embassy said […]

Tehran (Iran News) –Hundreds of  Paris climate activists barricaded themselves into a Paris shopping center for hours ahead of a planned series of protests around the world by the Extinction Rebellion movement. Campaigners faced off against police and some inconvenienced shoppers as they occupied part of the Italie 2 mall in southeast Paris all day […]

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that the Europeans are not legally in a position to quit the 2015 nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. “From the legal point of view, they have no right to do so,” he told ICANA in an interview published on […]

Tehran (Iran News) – The five-year Saudi war on Yemen has killed more than 70,000 people and pushed millions to the brink of famine in what the United Nations calls the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Last month, a local non-government organization said even the water supply in Yemen had been “weaponized”, and Yemenis have no […]

A spate of fruitful Yemeni operations against Saudi Arabia has underscored transformation of anti-Saudi forces into an obstinate actor gaining in military sophistication, increasing pressure on Riyadh to acknowledge what described as a democracy-promotion campaign has only diminished its influence in Yemen and sullied its reputation globally. Iran News reports how Saudi Arabia is stuck […]