The Russian Foreign Minister  discussed with his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry the latest developments in Syria. The Russian Foreign Ministry stated that on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, Lavrov and Shoukry talked about the key political issues on the regional agenda, concentrating on the crisis in Syria. The statement added that the two […]

Germany’s Social Democrats start campaigning Saturday ahead of a party referendum that spells the last threat to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s hopes of forming a new government, five months after inconclusive elections. In a vote expected to be tight, the more than 460,000 members of the deeply divided centre-left SPD will cast their ballots on a […]

Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in a speech in Beirut on Friday said that the United States is seeking to plunder the Syrian oil and gas in East Euphrates. He said the Trump administration is not ashamed to clearly announce that it is seeking to robe oil and gas riches in the Middle East […]

TEHRAN – A political analyst has blasted the U.S.’ double-standard policies towards Iran, saying the White House regards its own interests as a barometer of good and evil. Political commentator Yadollah Javani has, in an article published on the Persian-language Basirat news website, weighed in on Washington’s double standards vis-à-vis Iran and Iranian people. The […]

The sole electricity plant in the Gaza Strip has stopped working because of a lack of fuel as concerns grow over worsening humanitarian conditions in the besieged Palestinian enclave. Mohammed Thabet, spokesman for Gaza’s energy distribution company, said on Thursday that it was informed by the energy authority that the power station had stopped functioning […]

Moscow says five Russian citizens may have been killed in recent attacks by US warplanes on pro-government forces in the eastern Syrian province of Dayr al-Zawr. Maria Zakharova, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, emphasized in a briefing in the capital Moscow on Thursday that the five victims weren’t Russian servicemen. “According to preliminary information, five […]

The United States is not in Afghanistan to defeat the Taliban but because America’s main rivals like China, Russia and Iran are in the neighborhood, former Afghan President Hamid Karzai says. Karzai, 60, made the remarks in an interview with The Washington Post’s Pamela Constable who’s the newspaper’s bureau chief in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The interview […]

A gleaming monument to the ambition and creativity of its age, the world’s largest Victorian glasshouse will once again welcome visitors to see some of the world’s rarest plants following a lengthy facelift. “Temperate House” in London’s Kew Gardens is large enough to house three jumbo jets, and was home to around 1,000 species of […]

The German government on Wednesday sought to play down plans to introduce free public transport, a day after the radical proposal to fight air pollution made headlines around the world. The measure was one of several proposed in a recent letter Berlin sent to EU Environment Commissioner Karmenu Vella as Germany scrambles to avoid big […]

 Commander of Iran’s Army Ground Force Brigadier General Kioomars Heidari said contracts to use Iranian homegrown military tank Karrar are ready to be delivered to the Iranian armed forces. Commander Heidari underlined that Karar tank is one of the unique products that have been contracted by the Army to be delivered to the factories for mass […]