Turkey, Russia and Iran are working on setting up a new de-escalation zone in Syria’s Afrin, the Anadolu news agency quoted Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim as saying on Monday.“We are now taking joint moves with Iran and Russia to establish a de-escalation zone in the area of the Syrian city of Afrin in the […]

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Monday he will call a snap election for parliament’s more powerful lower house for next month.Abe said at a news conference that he will dissolve the chamber on Thursday when it convenes after a three-month summer recess. The election is to be held Oct. 22, AP reported.Support ratings for […]

The photographs that the Russian Defense Ministry published on Sunday on its Facebook page provide compelling evidence that the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and US troops that support them are present in Syria’s areas held by the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group, the ministry said Monday.Russian Defense Ministry’s spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said that […]

Weakened by the worst result for her party since 1949 and facing a more fractious political landscape at home, Germany’s Angela Merkel could be forced to rein in plans to re-shape Europe together with France’s Emmanuel Macron.Merkel’s conservatives garnered more support than any other party in the German election on Sunday, projections showed, ensuring that […]

China on Monday called for all sides in the North Korea missile crisis to show restraint and not “add oil to the flames” amid an exchange of increasingly bellicose rhetoric between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho told the UN General Assembly on Saturday […]

The Iraqi government will not hold talks with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) about the results of Monday’s ‘unconstitutional’ referendum on independence in northern Iraq, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said. “We are not ready to discuss or have a dialogue about the results of the referendum because it is unconstitutional,” Abadi said in a […]

The UN has said that Israel’s settlement activities are continuing at “at a high rate,” despite demands by the Security Council for the Tel Aviv regime to end its expansions. “Israel’s illegal settlement activities have continued at a high rate, a consistent pattern over the course of the year,” said the UN envoy for the […]

TEHRAN – On Monday, French truck drivers went on strike against the labor reforms approved by President Emmanuel Macron last week. French truck drivers are blocking highways and fuel depots in a strike against the labor reforms approved by President Emmanuel Macron last week, according to media reports. The protests are simultaneously taking place in […]

TEHRAN – Donald Trump has more than doubled the number of covert US airstrikes in Yemen compared with the final year of Barack Obama’s presidency, new estimates show. The rise, combined with Trump’s rollback of Obama-era safeguards, has sparked renewed concern from MPs and human rights groups over the UK’s role in US counter-terrorism operations, […]

TEHRAN  – The people of Afghanistan are not going to profit from US mining rare-earth minerals there, US journalist and foreign policy strategist Michael Hughes said. “It is always going to be the elite in that country and the foreign corporations” that benefit the mining in Afghanistan, Hughes said in an exclusive interview with Russia […]