Turkey “warned” the United States ahead of launching an attack against Kurds in northern Syria, says Defense Secretary James Mattis. “Turkey was candid,” Mattis said during a flight to Asia on Sunday. “They warned us before they launched the aircraft they were going to do it, in consultation with us.” Turkey launched “Operation Olive Branch,” a new […]

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Sunday that he would visit Iran on March 5. Jean-Yves Le Drian said he would discuss the latest developments about the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers in his trip to the Iranian capital, Tehran. The French minister added that he would also raise the […]

Chinese officials and rescue workers did everything they could to handle the situation in a recent tragic incident during which Iranian oil tanker Sanchi sank in the East China Sea after burning for a week, China’s ambassador to Iran said. In a press conference at China’s embassy in Tehran on Sunday, Pang Sen said the […]

TEHRAN – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US State Secretary Rex Tillerson discussed on Saturday during a phone call the development of the political settlement for crisis in Syria. Lavrov and Tillerson focused on the situation in Syria, including issues of stability in the country’s north and promotion of the UN-brokered peace settlement, to […]

TEHRAN – Turkish tanks and military personnel have entered Syrian territory amid preparations for the ground operation in Syrian northern district of Afrin. According to the newspaper, the Turkish tanks and troops started to enter Syrian territory from the Oncupinar border gate at 19:00 GMT and the passage continued until the early hours of Sunday […]

A senior member of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas said Chairman of Hamas Political Bureau Ismail Haniyeh’s letter to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei proves that the resistance movement in the Gaza Strip has strategic ties with Iran. “This Letter is indicative of Hamas’ strategic relations with the Islamic Republic of […]

LONDON– The strikes of US-led international coalition killed as many as 6,000 civilians in Syria and Iraq in 2017, more than three times the number of victims in the year before, according to Airwars organization. Airwars, a London-based NGO, said that the coalition strikes moved in 2018 to more densely-populated urban centers with the claim […]

NEW DELHI – Addressing the Raisina Dialogue in New Delhi on Thursday, India’s flagship foreign policy conference held annually, the former Afghan President Hamid Karzai lashed out at the United States, claiming that it had “destroyed” Afghanistan.  Participating in ‘The Afghan Poser’ panel session, Karzai said he had invited the U.S. to Afghanistan to bring […]

The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs recently announced it has suspended sales of arms and ammunition to the United Arab Emirates. The ministry had expressed concern that these arms could be used in Yemen resulting in an intensification of the humanitarian crisis that has engulfed the country since the outbreak of the war in 2015. […]

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said here on Thursday that preserving the international agreement on Iran’s nuclear program was important, as failure of the deal would send “an alarming message for the entire international security architecture.” Speaking at the Security Council, Lavrov said the overwhelming majority of the international community recognizes that the 2015 agreement […]