Tehran, Iran – AFP Iran has blamed Israel and the United States for twin bomb blasts that killed at least 95 people in the country’s south on Wednesday, ripping through a crowd commemorating Revolutionary Guards general Qasem Soleimani four years after his death in a US strike. The two explosions — labelled a “terrorist...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – At least 53 people were killed on Wednesday when multiple explosions ripped through an area where a ceremony was being held to commemorate a top Iranian general who was assassinated four years ago by the US, according to state media. Dozens of others were reportedly injured in the explosions that took […]
IDLIB, Syria (AA) – Four civilians were injured on Sunday in shelling by Syrian regime forces on the war-torn country’s northeastern city of Idlib. The regime and Iranian-backed groups stationed in the city of Saraqib launched ground attacks targeting Idlib city center, an Anadolu correspondent reported. The injured were immediatel...
Tehran, Iran – AFP Thousands amassed Thursday in the Iranian capital for the funeral of senior Revolutionary Guards commander Razi Moussavi, three days after he was killed in an Israeli strike. The crowd in Tehran’s central Imam Hossein square chanted “Death to Israel” and “Death to America”. Israel has long...
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...
