Turkey lifted its two-year-old state of emergency almost a month after President Erdogan and AKP party secured a victory in parliamentary and presidential elections. The Turkish government declared a state of emergency for the first time on July 20, 2016 following a failed coup attempt to topple the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Turkey […]

 Twitter users cannot just stop mocking and joking about Trump’s “clarification” of his confusing remarks when he said he saw no reason why Russia “would” interfere, while he meant to say “would not” about Russia’s alleged interference in the US elections. Trump was almost immediately mocked online after his “clarifications”, with plenty of memes and […]

Russian Presidents’ Special Envoy for Syria Alexander Lavrentiev travels to Tehran on Wednesday to convey the results of Putin-Trump summit to Iranian officials, Russian RBK TV reported. The presidents of Russia and the United States held talks in Finnish capital of Helsinki on Monday to discuss a wide range of issues including Iran. The two […]

European Union Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini said that European Union will throw its heavyweight on European companies in sanctions period. She criticized US unilateral policies in the international arena with regard to Iran’s nuclear dossier and said, “EU intends to support its companies in Iran legally after US pullout from Joint Comprehensive Plan of […]

TEHRAN – Saving and implementing the 2015 Iran nuclear deal is the main obligation of signatories, a former senior Chinese army officer has said, IRNA reported. “All parties should try to save the deal from collapse, and it requires all signatories to defend it firmly and implement it,” said Yao Yunzhu, a retired major-general of […]

Japan has amassed enough plutonium to make 6,000 atomic bombs as part of a programme to fuel its nuclear plants, but concern is growing that the stockpile is vulnerable to terrorists and natural disasters. Japan has long been the world’s only non-nuclear-armed country with a programme to reprocess spent nuclear fuel from its power plants […]

Colombia’s right-wing President-elect Ivan Duque announced a controversial appointment as defense minister on Tuesday, choosing a vocal critic of the 2016 peace agreement with FARC rebels. The 70-year-old entrepreneur Guillermo Botero, a lawyer by profession, has no experience in security matters. “We’re going to have a new defense minister, a defense minister with great management […]

British Prime Minister Theresa May narrowly survived another crunch Brexit vote in parliament Tuesday, as she struggles to unify her divided party around her strategy for leaving the European Union. The Conservative government defeated an amendment introduced by its own backbench MPs to a future trade policy bill which would have kept Britain in a […]

 Syrian Army units on Tuesday continued the military operations against terrorist organizations in the rest of the villages and towns in Daraa northwestern countryside. The army units expanded their control through liberating the village of al-Mal and al-Mal Hill after eliminating the last gatherings of terrorists in them, a military source said. SANA reporter said that […]

 Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed that terrorist organizations in Syria bear responsibility for civilian casualties. In an interview with American Fox News T.V channel President Putin replied to a question on the allegations that “Russia bombed Aleppo and Ghouta” by saying “You know, when there is warfare going on – and this is the worst […]