An Iranian lawmaker said consultations are under way to secure the release of the remaining Iranian border guards abducted by terrorists at a military post on the common border with Pakistan back in October. Speaking to Tasnim, Ali Kord hailed the efforts by the security forces and the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) that resulted […]

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday criticized sanctions on Venezuela during a visit to Caracas, while President Nicolas Maduro defended the country’s right to export gold after US sanctions last month targeted its shipments of the metal. Washington has imposed sanctions on Venezuelan officials it accuses of corruption, and on certain financial transactions with […]

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Seyed Abbas Araqchi said Tehran and the remaining parties to the 2015 nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) are planning to make up for the US exit from the accord. Speaking to reporters in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Monday night, Araqchi said after the […]

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman’s planned meeting with Abdelaziz Bouteflika was canceled on Monday because the Algerian president is sick. Bouteflika’s office said in a statement that the ailing 81-year-old was confined to bed with an “acute flu” as the Saudi prince arrived for his two-day trip to Algeria, AP reported. The crown prince […]

Six Mexican police were shot dead on Monday in the western state of Jalisco, authorities said, in one of the bloodiest attacks on security forces in recent months on the first weekday of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s new administration. Jalisco state prosecutors said on Twitter that six state police were killed and one was […]

Houthi officials are expected to travel to Sweden for talks as early as Wednesday to end the nearly 4-year-old Saudi-led war on Yemen. UN special envoy Martin Griffiths arrived in the Yemeni capital Sana’a on Monday to escort the Houthi delegation. The peace talks may start Wednesday, two sources familiar with the matter said, Reuters […]

At least 13 people, including women and children, were killed and injured when Saudi warplanes targeted an area of Yemen’s northern province of Sa’ada. According to Yemen’s Saba news agency, the Saudi aerial aggression targeted residential areas in the Kataf district on Monday, killing four and injuring nine civilians there. Since March 2015, the Saudi regime, […]

Al-Nusra Front terrorists have reportedly gained access to 100 unmanned aerial vehicles through a Turkish merchant to use them in chemical attacks against Syrian government forces in the country’s northwestern province of Idlib. Local sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Arabic service of Russia’s Sputnik news agency that the drones have been transported […]

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif pledged that Tehran will battle in the United Nations General Assembly to block a draft resolution that the US has proposed against the Palestinian Resistance Movement, Hamas. Zarif and Ismail Haniyeh, head of Hamas Political Bureau, held a telephone conversation on Monday about the latest developments in Palestine. In […]

The UN’s Yemen envoy, Martin Griffiths, landed at Sana’a international airport in Yemen Monday for talks with Houthis ahead of planned peace talks in Sweden this month. An AFP photographer at the airport said Griffiths did not take questions on arrival. Fifty wounded Houthis will also be evacuated from Sana’a for medical treatment Monday, the […]