More than 100 girls were missing on Wednesday, two days after a Boko Haram attack on their school in northeast Nigeria that has raised fears of a repeat of the 2014 Chibok kidnapping that shocked the world. Islamist militants stormed the Government Girls Science Secondary School in Dapchi, Yobe state, on Monday evening. Locals initially […]

More civilians were killed or injured and material damage was caused to the citizens’ houses and public facilities in Afrin city and its villages in the countryside of Aleppo due to the aggression waged on the area by the forces of the Turkish regime and its mercenaries. SANA’s reporter said on Wednesday that the forces […]

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov slammed on Wednesday the US and other countries’ double standards in dealing with all issues connected to the situation in Syria, asserting that their stances towards what is going on in Eastern Ghouta in Damascus Countryside is a clear example of that. In press statement in Moscow, Ryabkov said […]

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi made assurances that the Arab country would never allow the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) or others to use the Iraqi territory against Iran. Speaking to reporters during a weekly press conference in Baghdad on Tuesday, Abadi said that even when terrorist groups were controlling some parts of Iraq, Baghdad […]

Students who survived the Florida shooting prepared to flood the Capitol Wednesday pushing to ban the assault style rifle used to kill 17 people, vowing to make changes in the November election if they can’t persuade lawmakers to change laws before their legislative session ends. About 100 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students arrived at […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping has sent a condolence message to Iranian President over the plane crash which killed all the passengers and the crew onboard. The Aseman Arlines plane was flying from Tehran to the southern city of Yasuj when it crashed just 14 miles away from its destination, with 66 passengers and crew onboard […]

US must stop playing with fire in Syria, Russia’s Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at the opening ceremony for the conference of the Valdai Discussion Club dubbed “Russia in the Middle East: Playing on All Fields.” “I once again call on our American colleagues not to play with fire and measure their steps proceeding […]

Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday that it is “absolutely critical” to make sure that the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, will survive. U.S. President Donald Trump has been making the harshest attacks on the international agreement. In a statement on January 12, Trump gave […]

Egyptian Foreign Minister, Sameh Shukri, has reaffirmed Egypt’s support for the political solution to the crisis in Syria, which preserves the unity of the Syrian state and its institutions and meets aspirations of the Syrian people. Egypt’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Ahmed Abu Zeid, said: “ Shukri, during his meeting with UN Special Envoy to Syria, […]

 Pressure is growing for tougher gun-control laws in the US after a mass shooting at a Florida high school, with thousands of angry protesters demanding immediate action from lawmakers, and more demonstrations planned across the country in the weeks ahead. Organizers behind the Women’s March, an anti-Trump and female empowerment protest, called for a 17-minute, […]