Lebanese Army warned late Sunday against riots in Beirut, as the Downtown in the capital turned into a scene of clashes between protesters and both the army and Internal Security Forces.
Iran warned on Monday that US has been seeking to undermine the United Nations Security Council by its draft resolution on extending arms embargo on the Islamic Republic.
The Taliban said Monday they were ready to hold peace talks with the Afghan government after a contentious prisoner exchange, which authorities said would begin in the next two days.
Belgium’s highest administrative court has suspended issuing arms export licenses for a number of Belgian companies in a bid to block the flow of arms to Saudi Arabia over its poor human rights ...
Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab says he will request early parliamentary elections in a bid to defuse a worsening political and economic crisis in the cash-strapped Arab country following a ...
More than 40 Syrians have died in the massive blasts which rocked Beirut last Tuesday, the Syrian Embassy in Lebanon said Saturday.
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qabilaf stressed the need to strengthen unity among the Muslim nations.
Saudi Arabia has suspended the supply of oil to Pakistan as the latter complains about Riyadh’s foot-dragging on a meeting of the Organization of Islamic Countries (OIC) to address India’s ...
Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi reacted to the change in the US especially envoy in Iran’s affairs and said there is no difference between Bolton, Hook or Abrahams.
Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani reacted to the surprise departure of US Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook from his post, saying that Washington’s ...
Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Abul Gheit arrived in Beirut on Saturday in a show of sympathy and solidarity with Lebanon after massive explosions at the capitals’ port last Tuesday.
Lebanese President General Michel Aoun received Friday a phone call from US President Donald Trump who stressed he would attend the international aid conference organized by France after the deadly ...
The US administration has imposed sanctions on Hong Kong’s leader and a number of other key officials over a security law that China enacted for the semi-autonomous region in late June.
Canada will impose countermeasures, including dollar-for-dollar retaliatory tariffs against the United States, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a statement.
China has warned the United States against taking “dangerous moves,” on Taiwan after Washington announced it was sending a senior official on a diplomatic visit to the self-ruled island.
Brian Hook, the US State Department’s hawkish special envoy for Iran, is quitting his job amid Washington’s polarizing campaign to extend the conventional arms embargo on Tehran.
Sirens warning of incoming rockets have been sounded in northern part of Israel near Lebanon, in what the Israeli army later said was a false alarm amid heightened tensions between Tel Aviv and ...
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has praised the role of journalists in countering fake news through their “relentless pursuit of reality” at a time when “people’s hope and trust is being ...
Japan is marking 75 years since the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, with ceremonies downsized due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The massive blasts at Beirut Port killed at least 137 people, and injured more than 5,000 others, with dozens others still missing, Lebanese Health Minister said Thursday.
Iran’s highest-ranking military commander voiced the Armed Forces’ readiness to help Lebanon handle the situation in the wake of a fatal blast that has displaced some 300,000 citizens in Beirut.
China says it has no intention of ratcheting up tensions with the United States and engaging in a diplomatic war with Washington.
American intelligence agencies have reportedly spotted what appears to be an undeclared nuclear site near Saudi Arabia’s capital city of Riyadh, scrutinizing attempts by the kingdom to process ...
Iran has condemned an oil agreement signed between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militant group and an American company as “a violation of Syrian sovereignty,” saying such a deal ...
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has approved a “new political map” of the country that marks the Indian-controlled part of the disputed Kashmir region as Pakistani territory.
Tehran has begun sending food supplies and medical aid to Lebanon, with senior Iranian officials voicing readiness to provide all sorts of humanitarian assistance to Beirut, which is reeling from a ...
US President Donald Trump’s former aide has slammed him for “spitballing” on the cause of a huge explosion in Beirut.
World countries offered condolences to Lebanon as they voiced readiness to help Lebanon after the devastating blasts at Beirut Port on Tuesday.
China has suspended its extradition agreement with New Zealand in response to Wellington suspending its existing extradition treaty with Hong Kong.
An accident during a military training has left eight US service members presumably dead, according to the Marine Corpse.
Hezbollah Secretary General, Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah, will deliver a televised speech on Wednesday August 5, at 20:30 (Beirut Timing), Hezbollah Media Relations announced in a statement.
Iran has imposed sanctions on an aide to US President Donald Trump’s former national security advisor, John Bolton, who is also a current member of the so-called Foundation for Defense of ...
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order requiring federal agencies to prioritise hiring American residents (as well as green card holders) over foreign workers. The order also requires ...
Russia's permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna says Iran’s nuclear capacity is “absolutely legitimate” as it fits within the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry, which recently announced the apprehension of the ringleader of a US-based anti-Iran terrorist group, has rejected reports alleging that the person in question was ...
An official in the US government pandemic response team on Sunday affirmed that there is zero evidence that hydroxychloroquine is a workable treatment for the COVID-19 coronavirus, despite President ...
Iran’s President Hasan Rouhani said on Sunday that the main goal behind the economic war of attrition imposed on the Iranian nation is to cause turbulence in the country’s decision-making system.
Zionist warplanes launched new airstrikes against positions of Palestinian resistance movement ‘Hamas’ in the central parts of the besieged Gaza strip.
Russian health authorities are preparing to start a mass vaccination campaign against coronavirus in October, the health minister has said.
The Lebanese Public Health Ministry indicated on Saturday that 175 new coronavirus cases have been registered today, thus raising the cumulative number of infected cases to-date to 4730 cases.
The Zionist settlers continued their massive protests against the prime minister Benjamin Netnayahu next to his residence and in several other areas.
South Africa’s confirmed cases of COVID-19 have crossed half a million, the health ministry said on Saturday, while cases in Africa as a whole approached a million.
Two Iranian border guards have lost their lives during an operation in the country’s northwestern province of West Azarbaijan near the border with Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.
Criminals attacked a shopping centre in Berlin with tear gas, injuring several people, according to rescue services in the German capital posting on Twitter, APA reports citing Sputnik.
President Donald Trump said he will take action as soon as Saturday to ban TikTok, a popular Chinese-owned video app that has been a source of national security and censorship concerns.
A former US under secretary of state for political affairs, who was the chief negotiator in the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, has criticized President Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign ...
Russia’s Foreign Ministry says it will respond in kind to travel and financial sanctions imposed by the European Union on a department of its military intelligence service over alleged cyber ...
Former US President Barack Obama has accused President Donald Trump's administration of trying to undermine voting rights in the country.
The accusations of China’s attempts to hack US biotech company Moderna Inc are baseless and have no evidence, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told a news briefing on Friday. Wang ...
US President Donald Trump has suggested that the November presidential election should be delayed to prevent fraud that might result from mail-in voting.
Leader of Iran's Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has slammed US sanctions on Tehran as "a crime against the Iranian nation".
The ship-to-ship missile was launched from a North Korean vessel in the Sea of Japan on July 6 and flew less than 100 kilometers (62 miles), the Yonhap news agency reported, citing South Korean ...
Russia said Wednesday that it plans to begin production of two “promising” coronavirus vaccines in September and October.
Mask-clad Muslim pilgrims on Wednesday began the annual Hajj, dramatically downsized this year as the Saudi hosts strive to prevent a coronavirus outbreak during the five-day pilgrimage.
The US ambassador to Brazil has warned the country of “consequences” if it allows Huawei Technologies into its 5G network as part of Washington's mounting pressure on the Chinese tech giant.
The chairman of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) or Hashd al-Sha'abi has highlighted the role of the counter-terrorism force in defending the Arab country against the Daesh Takfiri terror ...
The United States has imposed sanctions on the son of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad over "enriching" a government that has been fighting Takfiri militancy for years.
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) is conducting large-scale aerial and naval drills off the strategic Strait of Hormuz and in the Persian Gulf, with the country’s first domestic ...
Oxfam warned on Tuesday that thousands of people in Yemen could be dying from undetected cases of cholera because COVID-19 has overwhelmed the country’s health facilities and people are too ...
Chief Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps [IRGC] Major General Hussein Salami said Iran will never initiate any offensive, but assumes a fully offensive mode when it comes to tactical and ...
