Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, and his French counterpart, Jean-Yves Le Drian, stressed that there is no alternative to the settlement of Syria’s crisis on the basis of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2254. “The Syrian National Dialogue Congress recently held in Russia’s Sochi has given a serious positive impetus to the United Nations-led Geneva […]

US Vice President Mike Pence, who will be leading the US delegation to the Olympic Opening Ceremonies, isn’t ruling out a possible meeting with North Korean officials. However, the top official reiterated his message to the North, saying that it “must once and for all abandon its nuclear weapons program and ballistic missile ambitions.” Commenting […]

India test-fired its surface-to-surface nuclear capable Agni-I (A) ballistic missile off Abdul Kalam Island in its eastern state of Odisha Tuesday, local media reported. The home-grown ballistic missile was test fired at 8:30 a.m. local time (0300 GMT). Local media said the test was conducted by the strategic force command of Indian army as part […]

The Afghan National Army (ANA) personnel destroyed a Taliban control and command center in a mountainous province and defused 30 improvised bombs, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday. “The ANA Air Force launched airstrikes on Monday in Wardoj district, Badakhshan province, destroying an enemy control and command center together with four vehicles and amount of weapons […]

TEHRAN – Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi on Monday called on Turkey to end its major offensive in the northwestern Syrian city of Afrin, warning the operation would bring back terrorists to the war-torn country. “The continuation of Turkey’s military operation will facilitate the return of instability and terrorism to Syria,” Qassemi said, noting that […]

Foreign Policy Commentator, Hanif Ghaffari, is touching upon the approach undertaken by the French in regards with Iran nuclear agreement of 2015. Conservative French leaders along with their American counterparts are lining up to make new demands on the Iran nuclear deal. Not to be outdone by the irrational mandates of Donald Trump, French President […]

A total of 12 militants have been killed as the Afghan government forces warplanes pounded Taliban hideouts in the northern Badakhshan, Faryab and Sari Pul provinces on Monday, an army spokesman said. The government forces aircraft, including helicopter gunships, according to spokesman in the northern region Nasratullah Jamshidi, bombed Taliban hideouts in Wardoj district of […]

North Korea’s ceremonial head of state will visit the South this week and attend the Winter Olympics opening ceremony as the divided peninsula witnesses a rare thaw after a year of high tensions over Pyongyang’s nuclear programme. Kim Yong-Nam will technically be the most senior official from the North ever to travel to the other […]

A senior European Union official is warning that the 28-nation bloc will hit back if US President Donald Trump takes trade measures against it. EU budget commissioner Guenther Oettinger told Sunday’s edition of Germany’s Welt am Sonntag newspaper: “If European exporters have to pay tariffs, that will become a two-way street. Then US exporters will […]

Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani voiced content with what the 5 joint commissions of Iran and Afghanistan have accomplished so far. Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani urged the 5 joint commissions of Iran and Afghanistan to continue following up their efforts. He described the trend of progress in the meetings of the joint commissions as logical and […]