TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has vowed to retaliate for the killing of its military advisers in an Israeli airstrike in the Syrian capital Damascus. Addressing a weekly press conference in Tehran, Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said the “crimes” of Israel against Iran have “never gone without answer.” Five Islamic Revolutionary Guards C...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan and Iran have agreed to send back their ambassadors to their respective posts, reflecting a thaw in strained relations following an exchange of missile attacks on each other’s territories last week. “Following the telephone conversation between the Foreign Ministers of Pakistan and the Islamic Republic of Iran...
Tehran, Iran – AFP Hundreds of mourners gathered Monday in Tehran for the funerals of Revolutionary Guards killed in Syria, in what Iran called an Israeli strike. It was the latest incident adding to regional tensions and fears of wider conflagration during Israel’s war on Gaza. The strike in Damascus on Saturday killed five member...
ANKARA (AA) – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has vowed that an Israeli attack that killed five military advisers “will not go unanswered.” Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said Saturday that five of its military advisers were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Syrian capital Damascus. In a statement, Raisi’s office termed th...
Damascus, Syria – AFP An Israeli strike on Damascus killed the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ spy chief for Syria and three other Guards members on Saturday, Iranian media said, in an attack that flattened a multi-storey residential building. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said six people were killed in the Isra...
Islamabad, Pakistan – – AFP Pakistan and Iran’s cross-border air raids this week targeting militants on each other’s soil mark an unprecedented flare-up at a time when the region is already a tinderbox of tensions, analysts say. “This kind of attack has never been done by either side,” said Karachi Universit...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistani and Iranian foreign ministers on Friday spoke over the phone and discussed the latest situation after the two neighbors launched airstrikes against “terrorists” in each other’s territory. According to Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry, Jalil Abbas Jilani told his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahi...
ISTANBUL (AA) – China has offered its role to de-escalate tensions between Pakistan and Iran, after the two neighbors launched airstrikes against “terrorists” in each other’s territory. “Iran and Pakistan are close neighbors and friendly countries to China, holding significant influence,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said. “Chin...
Washington, United States – AFP The United States on Wednesday condemned recent Iranian strikes in Pakistan, Iraq and Syria, which Tehran has claimed were carried out against “anti-Iranian terrorist groups.” “So we do condemn those strikes. We’ve seen Iran violate the sovereign borders of three of its neighbors in...
ISLAMABAD/ISTANBUL (AA) – Pakistan on Thursday said it struck “terrorist hideouts” in Iran, less than two days after Tehran launched airstrikes which Islamabad called an “unprovoked” violation of its airspace. “This morning Pakistan undertook a series of highly coordinated and specifically targeted precision...
