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 […]

Macron’s office announced its decision after the French president discussed Turkey’s operation in Afrin, Syria with Turkish President Erdogan during a phone conversation. “The two presidents agreed to work on a diplomatic road map for Syria in the coming weeks. To that end, discussions between France and Turkey, which both hope for a political solution […]

TEHRAN – If the PYD/PKK terror group does not leave Syria’s Manbij, Turkey will move there and towards east of Euphrates River, Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said Sunday. In remarks made to CNNTurk, Bozdag, who is also a spokesman for the government, said the PYD/PKK terrorists had to leave Manbij, a strategic city west […]

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron discussed Turkey’s ongoing Operation Olive Branch in Syria’s northwestern region of Afrin over the phone, a Turkish presidential source said on Saturday. According to the source, Erdogan and Macron also exchanged views on bilateral relations and on the outcome of the Syrian National Dialogue […]

Iran’s Ambassador to Spain Mohammad Hassan Fadaei-Fard said Trump seeks to scare European countries of entering Iranian market by attacking JCPOA. Speaking during a working luncheon with Spanish mass media and political-strategic think tanks representatives on Friday, on the eve of 39th anniversary of the Iranian Islamic Revolution, Mohammad Hassan Fadaei-Fard studied the newest bilateral, regional […]

TEHRAN – The situation remains foggy for Europe right now because Germany, as the prime country that has political and economic dominance, continues to suffer from the lack of an “incumbent government”. Angela Merkel as the German Chancellor has only focused on her country’s internal affairs in recent months, and thus she has virtually lost […]

FAO headquarters in Rome hosted a group of international experts that specialize in social-ecological systems to discuss a number of case studies including the Lake Urmia Restoration program. According to a press release by the FAO Representation in Iran, the overall theme of the expert workshop was to discuss how the social-ecological systems frameworks have been […]

North Korean skiers and skaters were due to arrive in the South Thursday to take part in the Pyeongchang Winter Games, setting the stage for a “peace Olympics” after a year of high tensions over Pyongyang’s nuclear programme. Eight days before the opening ceremony, 10 North Korean skiers and skaters were to fly in on […]