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US-led drone strike kills over dozen in eastern Afghanistan...

( Afghanistan )

Kabul:More than a dozen people have been killed in a drone strike carried out by US-led foreign forces in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar. The 201st Selab (Flood) Corps of the Afghan National Army announced in a statement that the aerial attack was conducted in the Dih Bala district of the province, which is located 120 kilometers (74 miles) east of the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Saturday. The statement further identified the deceased as seventeen members of Daesh Takfiri militant...

US imposes sanctions on Iran for ballistic missile program...

  Washington:The US Department of the Treasury says it has imposed new sanctions on Iran for its ballistic missile program. The Treasury Department made the announcement in a statement issued on Sunday, only a day after sanctions targeting Iran’s nuclear energy program were lifted. The statement said five Iranian citizens and a network of companies based in the United Arab Emirates and China were added to a US blacklist. The network “obfuscated the end user of sensitive goods for missile...

Daesh kidnaps 400 civilians in Syria’s Dayr al-Zawr: R...

( Syria )

Damascus:Daesh Takfiri terrorists have kidnapped at least 400 civilians, including women and children, in an assault on Syria’s eastern city of Dayr al-Zawr, a monitoring group says. Following its Saturday attack on Dayr al-Zawr, Daesh “abducted at least 400 civilians from the residents of the al-Baghaliyeh neighborhood it captured, and adjacent areas in the northwest of the city,” the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said on Sunday. Rami Abdel Rahman, the SOHR director, added...

Sanctions imposed over Iran’s nuclear program lifted...

( Geneva )

Viena:Sanctions imposed on Iran over its nuclear program are lifted following confirmation of Tehran’s commitment to​ the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif made the announcement during a joint press conference in Vienna on Saturday (17th January 2016) Mogherini read out a statement in English which was subsequently read out by Zarif in Persian. “As...

Pakistani forces detain 42 Daesh-linked suspects in Punjab: ...

( Pakistan )

Islamabad”Pakistani counter-terrorism forces have arrested more than 40 militant suspects with alleged links to the Daesh terrorist group across the country’s eastern province of Punjab. Provincial Law Minister Rana Sanaullah confirmed on Monday that at least 42 suspects were detained after police commandos from the counter-terrorism department raided their hideouts in four Punjab cities over the weekend. “The arrests were the result of raids in four Punjab cities over the weekend,” said...

Top Sunni cleric Molvi Salamai denounces Al-Nimr execution...

Tehran:The representative of Sistan and Baluchistan in the Assembly of Experts, Molavi Nazir Ahmad Salami in an interview with Taqrib News Agency (TNA) underscored, “Inviting to good, enjoining what is right and forbidding the wrong among Muslims was the mission of religious clerics and does not no Shiites and Sunnis”.Wilayat Times reports; “After writing so many letters to Saudi state with this connection, we expect Saudi rulers do not perpetrate such measure,” underlined Molavi Nazir Ahmad...

Saudi-backed militants fire shells at aid convoy in Yemen...

Sanna:Saudi-backed militants have fired shells at a humanitarian aid convoy in the southwestern Yemeni province of Ta’izz.
A civilian was injured during the attack, which occurred in the Dahi district of Ta’izz on Monday, Yemen’s al-Masirah news channel reported. The militants also blocked an aid convoy that was heading toward the Habil Salman district of the province. The report also said that Saudi-backed snipers have recently targeted a number of Yemeni civilians in Ta’izz, including...

Daesh executes 5 ‘British spies’ in Syria...

Damascus:The Daesh Takfiri group has released a new video purportedly showing execution of five “British spies” in Syria, with the terrorists calling Prime Minister David Cameron an “imbecile.” The 10-minute video, posted online, showed the five men in orange jumpsuits introducing themselves in Arabic and “confessing” to spying for the United Kingdom by filming and photographing sites in exchange for money within Syria’s northern city of al-Raqqah, the Takfiris’ de facto capital. After...

Saudi Arabia cuts ties with Iran after al-Nimr execution...

Riyadh:Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir announced on Sunday that Riyadh severed its diplomatic relations with Tehran one day after the government and people of Iran protested to execution of dissident cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr. A weary-looking al-Jubeir whose country is entangled with its prolonged aggression on neighboring Yemen and futile support to the extremist terrorists in Syria and Iraq amid the 11-year-low plummeting prices of the kingdom’s lifline crude oil, told reporters in...

Nimr execution won’t be taken lightly:Syed Hassan Nasr...

Beirut:Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary general of the Lebanese Islamic Resistance movement Hezbollah, says the execution of prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr by the Al Saud regime will not be taken lightly. During a televised address on Sunday, Nasrallah said criticism is forbidden Saudi Arabia, adding that the country is no place for any cleric of any sect casting the kingdom’s policies into question. Elaborating on Riyadh’s way of treating criticism, however, the Hezbollah...