At least four policemen were killed and 11 wounded by two roadside bombs that targeted police convoys in separate attacks in northern Iraq on Sunday, the service and medical sources said. Two died and eight were wounded when a bomb hit a bus carrying police on their way to work near the town of Shirqat, […]

The preparatory technical meetings of the Syrian-Iranian Joint High Committee began Saturday at the Damascus-based Dama-rose Hotel . Iran’s Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development Amir Amini  said that holding meetings is an evidence of Iran’s and Syria’s strong will to cooperate and deepen the various aspects of strategic relations. He hoped to reach […]

Marzieh hashemi, who was released on Wednesday after spending 10 days in U.S. detention without charge, has spoken to Press TV about her experience and how she is resolved to prevent others from being subjected to such mistreatment by the American justice system. During a live interview with Press TV from Washington on Thursday evening, […]

 President Donald Trump on Friday announced that a deal has been reached to end the shutdown and reopen the government. The announcement came as the partial government shutdown stretched to 35 days, the longest in U.S. history. President Donald Trump is expected to announce an agreement to temporarily reopen the federal government after the longest […]

The Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Cuba strongly condemns and rejects the attempt to impose through a coup a puppet government at the service of the United States in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and expresses its unwavering solidarity with the Government of the constitutional president Nicolás Maduro Moros. The true objectives of the […]

UN chief Antonio Guterres on Thursday appealed for dialogue in Venezuela to avoid the political crisis spiraling out of control, after opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself interim president. “What we hope is that dialogue can be possible, and that we avoid an escalation that would lead to the kind of conflict that would be […]

The death toll from flooding and landslides in central Indonesia has risen to 26, the governor of a province that has been inundated by torrential rains said Thursday. South Sulawesi Gov. Nurdin Abdullah said in a TV interview that displaced people were still being evacuated. Ten districts and cities in the province including the capital […]

A former prison guard trainee who recently moved to Florida from Indiana killed five people during a standoff at a small town bank in Sebring, Florida, before surrendering to a SWAT team that stormed the building, police said. Investigators said Zephen Xaver, 21, called police from inside the SunTrust Bank branch on Wednesday to report […]

The International Committee of the Red Cross is preparing for a prisoner swap to move hundreds of detainees held by forces loyal to Yemen’s fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi and the Ansarullah movement, according to a statement released by the agency. The prisoner swap will be done with two aircraft with a combined […]

The Qatari foreign minister called on all the (Persian) Gulf Cooperation Council member states to engage in talks with Iran, which is an “important part of the region”. “Turkey, Iran and Iraq are important parts of the region and Qatar needs to build strong relationships and partnerships with other countries in the region. Qatar needs […]