TEHRAN – Russia launched a second rocket from its new Vostochny cosmodrome in the Far East on Tuesday, as Moscow seeks to ease dependence on Baikonur in Kazakhstan. Marking another milestone after the inaugural liftoff last year, the Soyuz rocket carrying a weather satellite and other equipment took off at 2:41pm local time (0541 GMT), […]

TEHRAN – Iranian homegrown military tank Karrar is ready to be in service, Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami said. In an interview with Tasnim on Tuesday, the defense minister said Karrar is ready to be delivered to the Iranian armed forces. Karrar, a class of Iranian tanks with modern technologies, was unveiled in March. […]

TEHRAN  – Syria’s government delegation will arrive a day late in Geneva to take part in direct peace talks with the opposition, a Syrian foreign ministry official and a UN official said Tuesday. The United Nations was scheduled to resume the peace talks between the government and the Syrian opposition in the Swiss city on […]

TEHRAN – Palestinians and Arabs on social media have reacted with anger after a newly formed, self-proclaimed anti-terrorism coalition opened its first meeting in Riyadh with a video that included a scene of a Palestinian fighting Israeli occupation forces. Monday’s summit of the so-called Islamic Coalition Against Terrorism was attended by representatives from 41 Muslim […]

TEHRAN- Police have arrested a 20-year-old man suspected of planning to use an automatic rifle for a mass shooting on New Year’s Eve in downtown Melbourne, Australia’s second largest city. Victoria state police said on Tuesday that the man was acting alone and had not been able to acquire a firearm before his arrest late […]

TEHRAN – Aung San Suu Kyi has been formally stripped of the Freedom of the City of Oxford award over her response to the repression of her country’s Rohingya Muslims. Oxford city council voted unanimously to permanently remove the honor given to the de facto leader of Myanmar in 1997, and said it did not […]

TEHRAN  – Pakistani forces moved against protesters blocking a key road in the capital Sunday after demonstrators attacked a police checkpoint, state media reported. PTV said the Pakistan Rangers took control of the Faizabad sit-in in Islamabad after protesters set ablaze a car and four motorbikes. The rangers are an armed paramilitary force under the […]

TEHRAN – President, prime minister, foreign minister and the information minister of the Sana’a-based ruling executive body dubbed as ‘Yemen’s Supreme Political Council’ strongly condemned the terrorist attack in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula that killed over 300 people. In separate statements released by Yemen’s Saba News Agency, President Saleh al-Sammad, Prime Minister Abdulaziz bin Habtoor, Foreign […]

TEHRAN  – Saudi warplanes carried out new airstrikes against several areas across Yemen, inflicting more human loss and material damage on the country. The Saudi warplanes launched on Saturday four raids on northern province of Sa’ada, a security official told Yemen’s Saba News Agency. The Saudi fighter jets carried out two raids on al-Hamaqi and […]

TEHRAN  – The office of the UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura on Saturday issued a latest statement, showing that they are getting ready for the new round of the intra-Syrian peace talk which is expected to kick off next Monday. The statement said that the special envoy takes note of the conclusion […]