ISTANBUL (AA) – Palestinian resistance group Hamas has denied Iranian claims that its October 7 attack against Israel was in revenge for the killing of top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in 2020. Soleimani was assassinated in a US drone strike in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, in January 2020. Ramadan Sharif, a spokesman for Iran’s elite ...
IDLIB, Syria (AA) – At least seven civilians were killed and five others injured as the Bashar al-Assad regime forces attacked Syria’s northwestern province of Aleppo, civil defense sources said on Sunday. The Syrian regime forces, stationed in the Qabtan and Ainjara districts of Aleppo, along with Iran-backed groups carried out attacks ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – At least 11 police officers were killed in an attack on a police station in Iran’s southeastern Sistan and Baluchistan province on Friday, officials said. The attack in Rask city was carried out by a group of “terrorists,” the state media reported, citing a police spokesman, who called the attack “co...
JERUSALEM- AFP Salvoes of rockets were launched at the US embassy in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, the mission said, the latest in a flurry of such attacks in response to Israel’s war in Gaza. There was no claim of responsibility and no reported casualties or damage, but the mission said the attack was “initiated [&...
Tehran, Iran — AFP Iran and Cuba have vowed to strengthen relations and stand together against sanctions imposed on them by the United States. “What can neutralise the sanctions is the exchange of capacities between the two countries,” Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said during a joint statement with his visiting Cuban count...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has warned of war expansion in the region if Israeli forces continue to commit war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian spoke by phone with European Union’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell about the latest developments on Israel’s a...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The US House of Representatives has approved a bill to permanently block $6 billion of frozen Iranian funds that were to be released under a prisoner swap agreement from September. The “No Funds for Iranian Terrorism Act,” received support from 90 Democrats and most House Republicans, resulting in a 307-119 vo...
Palestinian Territories – AFP A tanker linked to an Israel-affiliated company was seized off Yemen on Sunday by armed individuals, US defence officials said, following a series of incidents on the same shipping route. American and coalition forces responded to the emergency and the crew of the M/V Central Park was safe, one of the offici...
Aboard a US military aircraft, Undefined – AFP A US warplane killed multiple Iranian-backed militiamen in Iraq after they fired a short-range ballistic missile at American and allied personnel in the country, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. “We can confirm an attack last night by Iran-backed militias using a close-range ballistic mis...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has officially denied involvement in the seizure of a cargo ship by Yemen’s Houthi rebels in the southern Red Sea amid soaring tensions over the War on the Gaza Strip. In his weekly news briefing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani termed as “false” the Israeli accusations of Iran’s involvement in […]...
