US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has denied reports that he referred to President Donald Trump as a “moron” after a meeting in July and was on the verge of resigning amid mounting policy disputes with the White House. US Vice President Mike Pence and other top officials intervened to persuade Tillerson not to resign, […]

TEHRAN  – A prankster, who has previously targeted US President Donald Trump and former FIFA president Sepp Blatter, interrupted British Prime Minister Theresa May’s keynote speech at her annual conference on Wednesday. British comedian Simon Brodkin, who uses the stage name Lee Nelson, handed a P45 letter, a document given to employees when they leave […]

TEHRAN– Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is in Iran on an official visit, said the recent decision by Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region to hold an independence referendum was taken in consultation with the Israeli spy agency Mossad. Speaking at a joint press conference with his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Rouhani, in Tehran on Wednesday, Erdogan […]

TEHRAN  – Russian President Vladimir Putin called on the international community to reject the policy of double standards in fighting terrorism. “We support a complex approach in countering terrorism, proliferation of its ideology, financing of illegal armed groups, rejecting the policy of double standards in fighting the main threat of modern times,” Putin said at […]

TEHRAN – Daesh (also known as ISIS or ISIL) elements in Afghanistan attacked the Taliban controlled region north of Afghanistan in which 14 militants from both sides were killed. According to local officials, Daesh elements ambushed two villages of ‘Gardan’ and ‘Shirbeyk’ in the Qush Tapa district of northern Jawzjan province on Tuesday. In the […]

TEHRAN  – Russia’s Aerospace Forces have critically wounded HTS leader and former Al Nusra Front ’emir’ Abu Mohammad al-Julani in Syria. Russia’s Aerospace Forces have critically wounded HTS leader and former Al Nusra Front ’emir’ Abu Mohammad al-Julani in Syria, and killed 12 field commanders of the terrorist group which controls Idlib Governorate. “As a […]

Former Iraqi president and leader of the country’s Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) Jalal Talabani has died at the age of 83 in Germany, his party officials say. “Our leader died in Germany,” an official with Talabani’s (PUK) said on Tuesday. Talabani was transported to Germany along with his wife and two children after his […]

TEHRAN – The European Parliament has voted to say that Brexit talks should not move on to the next stage as there has been no “sufficient progress.” MEPs on Tuesday morning backed a motion by 557 votes to 92 that said negotiations should not be allowed to progress to the future relationship between the UK […]

TEHRAN – Syria’s army and its allies continued to make gains in the military campaign against Daesh (ISIL) in Homs, managing to liberate several areas from the control of the terror group in the central province. Syrian forces on Monday established control over the villages of al-Qasimiyeh, al-Shemalieh, Rabe’a, and Mghezel northeast of Jub al-Jarrah […]

TEHRAN  – Turkey’s foreign ministry spokesman says respect for Spain’s territorial integrity is a main “principle.” Huseyin Muftuoglu said in a statement issued early Tuesday that it was important that both sides abide by Spain’s laws and avoid violence. His comment follows Sunday’s independence referendum in Catalonia that Spain’s courts deemed illegal. More than 800 […]