New satellite imagery reveals the Burmese government has been bulldozing scores of depopulated Rohingya villages in northern Rakhine State, Human Rights Watch said Friday. The United Nations Security Council, the UN and its agencies, and Burma’s donors should demand the Burmese government immediately halt the demolition of Rohingya villages, which should be treated as crime […]

Spokesperson for Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Faisal said on Friday that his country will continue the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline, also known the Peace pipeline. During his weekly press conference in the presence of domestic and foreign media correspondents in Islamabad on Friday, Mohammad Faisal said that because of growing demand for energy in […]

Russia said it is opposed to a bid by the United States and its allies to include language condemning Iran for allegedly violating an arms embargo imposed on Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah Movement in a United Nations resolution renewing that embargo this month. “We don’t like condemnations at all, in general,” Russian UN Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya […]

The US Supreme Court ruled that American citizens injured in a 1997 suicide bombing in Israel cannot seize ancient Persian artifacts from a Chicago university and museum as compensation. The country’s highest court on Wednesday unanimously upheld a federal appeals court’s decision in favor of Iran that had prevented the plaintiffs from obtaining Persian antiquities […]

Chilean Foreign Ministry in a message expressed its seep condolences over Tehran-Yasuj plane crash which claimed lives of a number of people of this country and sympathized with the bereaved families of victims. In this regard, Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a message of condolences to the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran […]

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 […]