TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Almost every Yemeni child is in need of international help, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said. Yemen, one of the world’s current major humanitarian crises, is witnessing its fourth year of a Saudi-led war, which has led to a nation-wide economic recession, deterioration of public services, food and medicine shortages, public […]

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The European Union expects a full investigation into the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, EU policy chief Federica Mogherini said on Tuesday. “We are fully aligned with the US position on this,” Mogherini told reporters in Lisbon, Reuters reported. “We expect a full-out investigation and full transparency from Saudi authorities on […]

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani called on the parliaments of the Eurasian countries to join hands against unilateralism and enhance political and trade ties. The Iranian parliament speaker on Tuesday delivered a speech to the 3rd Meeting of Speakers of Eurasian Countries’ Parliaments in the Turkish city of Antalya, held with the […]

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize called for the international community to pressure Saudi officials about a journalist’s disappearance after he entered Saudi Arabia’s Istanbul consulate. “If (Jamal) Khashoggi is being held, we demand his immediate release,” said Tawakkol Karman, a human rights activist from Yemen, The Peninsula reported on […]

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday called on Riyadh to prove its claim that Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who has been missing since last week, left the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. The disappearance of Khashoggi, previously a prominent newspaper editor in Saudi Arabia and an adviser to its former head of […]

 Bosnians were voting Sunday in a general election that could install a pro-Russian nationalist to a top post and cement the ethnic divisions of a country that faced a brutal war 25 years ago. The ballot is seen as a test of whether Bosnia will move toward integration in the European Union and NATO or […]

 Helicopters of the US-led International coalition evacuated a number of of ISIL terrorists from the south-eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor. Identical sources of media and information said Sunday  that Helicopters belonging to the US-led coalition, carried out an air landing  near al-Sha’feh town in the pocket where ISIL terrorists are positioned in the south-eastern countryside of […]

Authorities in Turkey have indicated that Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi journalist known for his criticism of then kingdom, could have been killed at Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul where he went missing in on Tuesday. Two Turkish sources said on Saturday that they believed that Khashoggi was killed inside the consulate. One source told […]

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that the recent increase in exchange rate is not due to economic reasons. Addressing the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party’s consultation meeting in Kizilcahamam district of Ankara on Saturday, Erdoğan said that increase in exchange rate is not only due to economic reasons, and that Turkey did not […]

Moscow is interested in continuing cooperation with Iran, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Wednesday. “Iran is our longtime economic partner… Of course, we need to find (new) forms (of cooperation) and work together further by implementing joint projects,” Novak said at the Russian Energy Week forum in Moscow.