New Iranian ambassador to Seoul Saeed Badamchi Shabestari presented his letter of credentials to South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Wednesday. In an official ceremony held at Cheong Wa Dae, known as the Blue House, the Iranian ambassador along with five other new envoys from Brazil, Canada, Fiji, Sudan, and Croatia handed their letters of […]

U.S. President Donald Trump has accepted an invitation by his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to visit the country, according to a spokesperson for Turkey’s leader.  Speaking to reporters after a cabinet meeting on Monday in the Turkish capital, Ankara, Ibrahim Kalin said Trump wants to make the trip in 2019 but a date has not […]

 Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says France’s presence in Syria to protect the YPG would help neither France nor the YPG. Cavusoglu stressed that Turkey has the power to single-handedly neutralize the ISIL terrorist group (Daesh) in Syria. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has signaled that a cross-border operation against the terrorist PYD/YPG in Syria […]

 A delegation from the Russian Defense Ministry has arrived in Iran for a session of the bilateral group for military cooperation, the Russian ministry press service said on Monday. “On December 24, a delegation of the Russian Defense Ministry led by the deputy chief of the Russian Army General Staff, Vice-Admiral Igor Osipov, arrived in […]

 The provincial governor of Iraqi Wasit province said Mon. that Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi has agreed to open a new border crossing with Iran in the province. Iraqi governor Mohammad Jamil al-Mayahi, the governor of Wasit, announced on Monday that the Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi had given his approval to opening the Al-Shahabi-Jankalah border […]

Jeremy Corbyn, the British politician who has been serving as Leader of the Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition since 2015 in the UK, is now trying to provide the ground for his own victory and the Labor Party in the country’s possible election in 2019. It seems that after his success in defeating […]

 Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi met on Monday with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif to discuss a range of bilateral, regional and international issues. The two ministers underlined the importance of stability, security and productive cooperation in the region, particularly among Afghans under the current circumstances, IRNA reported. Qureshi said Pakistan desires to […]

Thousands of army soldiers are being deployed across Bangladesh to provide security and help conduct national elections next Sunday. The deployment began early Monday and the soldiers will be on duty until Jan. 2, the military’s public relations office said, AP reported. The soldiers are setting up camps in 389 areas and navy personnel are […]

The spokesman of Yemen’s Armed Forces, Brigadier General Yahya al-Sare’e, said the Saudi-led coalition has violated the ongoing ceasefire in Hudaydah at least 47 times during the past 24 hours as the UN mission arrived in the port city. Sare’e said on Sunday that the mercenaries of the US-Saudi alliance continued violations of the ceasefire […]

Japanese government data has revealed that the number of babies born in the country is the lowest since such information began to be collected in 1899. According to the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, the number of babies born this year is estimated at just 921,000, 25,000 less than last year and well […]