Iran’s Defense Minister says the Islamic Republic will give a crushing answer to any aggressor when it comes to defending its national security. Speaking in a meeting with the Iranian Parliament’s Commission on National Security and Foreign Policy o...
The Hamas resistance movement says the Israeli captives held in Gaza since Tel Aviv’s 2014 war on the blockaded Palestinian enclave will not be released until a “real” agreement is reached on exchanging prisoners. “A real prisoner exchange d...
Sanaa discussed with Tehran on Tuesday the humanitarian situation in Yemen as a result of the continued war and siege imposed by the Saudi-led coalition, and ways to deliver humanitarian aid and medicines to confront Coronavirus in Yemen. This came ...
There have now been some 4,804,000 confirmed cases of infection with the new coronavirus globally, and 316,703 people have lost their lives, according to Johns Hopkins University. Some 1,858,754 people have also recovered from the respiratory di...
China has been transparent, responsible, and prompt in its response to the coronavirus and sharing information with other countries, Chinese President Xi Jinping said Monday. “In China, after making painstaking efforts and enormous sacrifice, we ha...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday that the World Health Organization is “damaging” its credibility by preventing Taiwan from obtaining observer status. WHO’s member states agreed during the virtual World Health Assembly to postpone the ...
Iraqi Prime Minister, Mustafa Al-Kazemi, confirmed that the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) and the Iraqi Army stopped ISIS in Iraq. He added that "the Popular Mobilization Units is the eye of the homeland and all Iraqis will continue to support thi...
Jordan’s King Abdullah II warns Israel that the regime should wait for a major clash with the kingdom if it goes ahead with plans to annex the occupied Palestinian territories of the West Bank and the Jordan Valley. Abdullah said in comments publish...
Hamas has categorically rejected all projects aimed at undermining the Palestinian people's rights and their cause, stressing that the much-condemned US "peace" proposal and Israel's annexation plans are atop of these schemes. In a statement on Thurs...
A number of captured members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group have confessed to close cooperation with US military forces stationed at al-Tanf base in the central Syrian province of Homs to carry out various acts of terror and sabotage. During c...
Zionist enemy boats opened, on Saturday morning, heavy machine gun fire towards Palestinian fishermen boats off the northwestern Gaza Strip, while settlers cut dozens of olive trees in the West Bank. Palestinian sources reported that the enemy boats ...
China's ambassador to the United Nations, Wang Qun, says the United States’ position against the World Health Organization (WHO) is artificially prolonging the coronavirus pandemic, warning against the consequences of Washington’s arbitrary trade ba...
The novel coronavirus has killed more than 300,000 people worldwide, mostly in Europe and the United States, since it emerged in China late last year, according to an AFP tally of official figures on Thursday at 2030 GMT. A total of 300,140 people ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the emerging coronavirus may never disappear and that it may turn into a disease that humankind will have to live with. “We have a new virus that infects humankind for the first time, so it is very...
Isma’il Haniyeh, head of Hamas’ political bureau confirmed that there is a movement for the possibility of indirect negotiations with the Israeli occupation to reach a prisoner exchange deal. Haniyeh stressed that so far there has not been the requi...
Mistake was made in a declaration by an FBI official in response to lawsuit by families of 9/11 victims, report says. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has accidentally disclosed the name of a Saudi diplomat suspected of directing support...
The novel coronavirus has killed at least 297,259 people since the outbreak first emerged in China last December, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT Thursday. At least 4,362,090 cases of coronavirus have been reg...
A total of 2,981,000 more Americans filed for unemployment insurance last week, bringing the total number of jobless claims filed amid the coronavirus pandemic to more than 36 million, according to the Department of Labor. Since late March, million...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov slammed on Wednesday Washington’s accusations against Russia and China as baseless, stressing that unilateral sanctions could only hinder humanitarian assistance amid the coronavirus pandemic. “It must be noted...
China expresses its resolute protest against US lawmakers’ bill on sanctions against China over the COVID-19 pandemic, Foreign Ministry’s spokesman, Zhao Lijian, said on Wednesday. “The bill, introduced by several US senators, absolutely neglects f...