TEHRAN  – Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement strongly condemned Friday’s terrorist attack that rocked a mosque in Arish city in Egypt’s North Sinai region and killed or wounded hundreds of worshippers. In a statement released on Friday, Hezbollah offered deep condolences to the victims’ families as well as the Egyptian government and people and voiced hope […]

MOSCOW – Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu reiterated the importance of taking steps towards a political settlement for the crisis in Syria. During a meeting with UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura in Moscow on Friday, Shoygu stressed the importance of exchanging views with de Mistura to try and find additional steps and […]

British Prime Minister Theresa May has said Brexit negotiations with European Council President Donald Tusk have been “very positive,” but that there are still outstanding issues on the divorce settlement and the border with EU member Ireland. “There are still issues across the various matters that we’re negotiating on to be resolved, but there’s been a positive […]

TEHRAN–Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan didn’t rule out possibility of cooperation with Syria’s Assad government on YPG. Ankara continues to rule out any place for the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its militia the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in any solution process in Syria, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has stated, after Turkey, Iran and […]

Emmerson Mnangagwa was on Friday sworn in as the second president of Zimbabwe at a colorful ceremony attended by thousands of Zimbabweans and foreign dignitaries. He replaced former president Robert Mugabe, whose resignation Tuesday after military and public pressure ended his 37-year stay in power, Xinhua news agency reported. Mnangagwa became Zimbabwe’s second president since […]

Kyrgyzstan’s new president Sooronbai Jeenbekov was inaugurated Friday in a ceremony marking the first peaceful transfer of power between elected leaders in the Central Asian country. Jeenbekov, 59, a close ally of outgoing Almazbek Atambayev, swore to protect the “unity of the country” as he accepted the national flag and donned a breastplate signifying the […]

China has further developed an advanced navigation satellite system, called Beidou, which can be used in search and rescue missions. “China has mastered the core technology of space payload and ground systems for medium earth orbit search and rescue systems. The time is ripe for China to develop its own self-controlled search and rescue system […]

The Syrian National Dialogue Congress will be convened after experts agree on its participants, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday. “There is a stable consensus that the Congress will be convened soon, this will happen after an intense work at the expert level on agreeing on the list of participants of this Congress,” […]

The UN nuclear agency Thursday said Tehran has given UN inspectors access to all the nuclear sites they needed to visit to implement the nuclear safeguard regime in the country. “As of today, the agency has had access to all the locations that we needed to visit,” International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Yukiya Amano […]

TEHRAN – Myanmar and Bangladesh signed a memorandum of understanding on Thursday for the return home of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled to the neighboring country to escape a Myanmar army crackdown. “We are ready to take them back as soon as possible after Bangladesh sends the forms back to us,” […]