Iraqi premier Adel Abdel-Mahdi visited Basra Sunday, his first trip as prime minister to the southern province where lagging services spawned a water crisis and protests last summer. Abdel-Mahdi’s office said he visited several infrastructure and service projects in the oil-rich province, including water provision services. “He called for redoubled efforts so these projects can […]

Ten UN peacekeepers from Chad were killed and at least 25 were wounded while repelling an attack by armed assailants near a village in northern Mali on Sunday, the West African nation’s UN mission and the United Nations said. The identity of the attackers was not immediately clear. UN peacekeeping and French forces are stationed […]

An economic summit held Sunday in Beirut urged international donors and Arab funds to “alleviate the plight of refugees and displaced people through funding the implementation of developmental projects in Arab countries hosting them.” “This would support national development plans and contribute to limiting the economic and social repercussions resulting from this temporary hosting,” the […]

Thousands of Central American migrants, many of them from Honduras, are taking Mexico up on its offer of temporary asylum and work visas. Mexican immigration officials said Sunday that 3,691 people associated with various migrant caravans have registered for temporary status in the country, and the number is expected to grow as more people arrive […]

The Baltic Fleet’s corvettes escorted the US Gravely and Porters destroyers, which have entered the Baltic Sea, the Russian National Defense Management Center told reporters on Monday. “The Baltic Fleet’s forces escorted the US Navy’s guided missile destroyers gravely and Porter, which have entered the southern part of the Baltic Sea’s waters,” the center said, […]

Representative of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas in Tehran denounced the Zionist regime’s propaganda campaign to disarm Palestinian resistance groups, stressing that the use of arms is an approach to safeguarding the rights of Palestine. Addressing a conference of “Gaza, Symbol of Resistance”, held in Tehran on Sunday, Khaled Qadoumi lambasted Israel’s deceitful measures, […]

Syrian military air defenses destroyed more than 30 missiles during Israeli airstrikes in the early hours of Monday, a report said. Russia’s defense control center was quoted by Interfax news agency as saying that Syrian air defenses shot down more than 30 cruise missiles and guided bombs early on Monday. RIA news agency also said […]

Japanese Prime Minister, who is en route to Moscow for summit talks with Russian President, is leaning toward accepting a postwar peace treaty between the two countries if two of the Russian-controlled four islands claimed by Japan are handed over, Japanese government sources said. Shinzo Abe, hoping to reach a broad agreement on the peace […]

Secretary-General of the Lebanese Hezbollah Resistance Movement Seyed Hassan Nasrallah is in full health and an interview with him will be broadcast in coming days following his three-month absence from the public eye. Lebanon’s Arabic-language al-Mayadeen TV said in a statement that on Saturday it will broadcast a long and detailed interview with Nasrallah, covering a wide range […]

 Iranian students, journalists and people from different walks of life are holding a demonstration in front of the Swiss Embassy in Tehran, which handles the US consular affairs in Iran, to protest the illegal detention of a US-born anchor working for Iran’s Press TV by the US authorities. The protestors have staged the rally to […]