Paris, France (AFP): Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has dismissed a pledge from US leader Joe Biden to “free Iran” as the country faces a new upsurge in protests seven weeks after the death of Mahsa Amini who had been arrested by the police for not fulfilling the requirements of the conservative dress code for women. Campaigning [...
BERLIN (AA) – The EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has called on Iran to end its military support to Russia in the war against Ukraine. “We insist on Iran to stop providing arms to Russia. Iran denies it but Ukrainians have been providing evidence of these drones,” Borrell said on the sidelines of the […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – NATO and Türkiye agree on the “importance of supporting Ukraine to end this war of aggression by Russia,” according to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. Stoltenberg, who arrived in Türkiye on a three-day visit on Thursday, praised Ankara’s role during the ongoing conflict. He said: “I commended Erdogan and Türkiye for wh...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has called on Yemen’s warring rivals to extend a UN-brokered cease-fire and provide protection to civilians in the war-torn country. “It is now just over a month since the expiry of a UN-mediated truce in Yemen that started on 2 […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has acknowledged that Tehran provided drones to Russia. However, he clarified, they were sent before the outbreak of the Ukraine war. Amir-Abdollahian made the comments to reporters on the sidelines of a meeting of the Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the UN [&h...
WASHINGTON (AA) – North Korea is secretly providing Russia with artillery shells in its war against Ukraine, the White House has said. National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby said at a webinar that in September, North Korea publicly denied it intended to provide ammunition to Russia. “Our infor...
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – The UN Security Council rejected a Russian drafted resolution Wednesday calling for an investigation into claims that the US and Ukraine carry out ”military biological activities” on Ukrainian territory. Only Russia and China voted in favor of the resolution, with the US, the UK and France voting against...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia announced on Wednesday that it is returning to implementation of the Black Sea grain corridor deal reached this July. “Thanks to the participation of the UN and the support of Türkiye, we managed to get the necessary written guarantees from Ukraine regarding the grain deal,” the Defense Ministry said in a...
WASHINGTON (AA) – A US court has sentenced an American woman to 20 years in prison for forming and leading an all-female ISIS battalion to fight in Syria, the Justice Department announced. Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, pleaded guilty in June and admitted to conspiring to provide material support or resources to “a foreign terrorist orga...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The presidents of Russia and Azerbaijan and the prime minister of Armenia reaffirmed their commitment to a comprehensive normalization of Baku-Yerevan relations, said a joint statement released after trilateral talks in Russia’s Sochi on Monday. The joint statement shared on the official website of the Russian Presidency ...
