The Pentagon continues to take measures for protection of its bases against impacts of global warming although US President Donald Trump rescinded all climate-related federal agency actions directed by former President Barack Obama, a report says. The initiatives that Trump killed in March included one that stipulated the Pentagon to be ready for extreme whether […]

The US Congress has unanimously passed a resolution against increasingly prevalent hate groups in the country, sending a clear message to President Donald Trump who stirred controversy by his response to a violent rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last month. The joint resolution was approved by the House of Representatives on Tuesday after the Senate did so […]

The US Department of Justice will not bring civil rights charges against six Baltimore police officers involved in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray, the young African-American man whose killing sparked mass protests in 2015. In a nine-page statement, the department said on Tuesday that “the evidence is insufficient to prove beyond a reasonable […]

A furious war of words erupts between diplomats from Qatar and the Saudi-led quartet of its boycotters at an Arab League meeting, months into the worst diplomatic crisis to hit the Persian Gulf region in decades. On Tuesday, Qatar’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Soltan bin Saad al-Muraikhi took the podium at the event […]

TEHRAN  – Russia’s military said Tuesday that Syrian troops have retaken about 85 percent of the territory once controlled by Takfiri militants. “To date, 85 percent of Syria’s territory has been cleared of the militants of illegal armed groups,” Alexander Lapin, chief of staff of the Russian military contingent in Syria, said, Ria Novosti reported. […]

TEHRAN  – Myanmar’s national leader Aung San Suu Kyi, facing outrage over ethnic violence that has forced about 370,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh, will not attend the upcoming UN General Assembly session in New York, a party spokesman said on Wednesday. The crisis over the security forces’ fierce response to a series of […]

TEHRAN – Referring to the role of Saudi Arabia and Israel in ongoing massacre against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, Bankok- based geopolitical researcher Anthony Cartalucci believes these Washington proxies are paving the way for the US military presence on the China borders. Myanmar’s population is overwhelmingly Buddhist and there is widespread hatred against the Rohingya […]

TEHRAN – Former French Foreign Minister Hubert Védrine told Iran’s Velayati that he believes Iran is committed to the nuclear deal of July 14, 2015, known as the JCPOA. “We are currently at a special phase of history, an the agreement signed in 2015 is of high value but the Americans are after undermining it,” […]

TEHRAN – The Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation said in a statement that Russia and Turkey had reached an agreement on Russian S-400 missile systems deliveries to Turkey. Moscow and Ankara reached an agreement on the delivery of Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile systems to Turkey and signed a contract, the cooperation said on Tuesday. Turkish […]

TEHRAN  – More than three-quarters of children and young adults trying to migrate to Europe via the Mediterranean are victims of abuse on the dangerous journey, UN agencies said in a report published Tuesday. Children’s rights agency UNICEF and the International Organization for Migration said young migrants coming from sub-Saharan Africa were particularly at risk […]