International
Israel Prefers Daesh & Al-Qaeda to Syrian Government:Sy...
( Lebanon )
Beirut:Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary general of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah, says Israel seeks government change in Syria in order to undermine the resistance front against the Zionist regime. Israel prefers the Daesh Takfiri terrorists and al-Qaeda militants to the Syrian government, Nasrallah said in a televised address to the Lebanese nation on Tuesday, the Martyr Leaders Day. He said the government of the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad poses a danger to the interests...
Zionist minister backs Syria’s sectarian partition...
( Tel Aviv )
Jerusalam: Officials with the Israeli regime, which is already widely accused of supporting Takfiri militants wreaking havoc in Syria, have called for the partition of the Arab country along sectarian lines. An Israeli minister has cast doubt on the longevity of a lasting ceasefire in Syria, suggesting instead that the country should be partitioned along sectarian divides. Speaking at the annual Munich Security Conference on Sunday, Moshe Yaalon, Israeli defence minister, said he is “very...
US to strongly pursue new Iran sanctions:Obama...
( US )
Washington:US president Barack Obama says Washington will vigorously pursue enforcing new sanctions against Iran. “We will continue to enforce these sanctions vigorously,” Obama said in a televised speech from the White House on Sunday. “We are going to remain vigilant about it.” Speaking only a day after the nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries came into effect, Obama doubled down on claims that the deal has prevented Tehran from making nuclear weapons. Iran...
Iran opens new chapter in global ties:Dr.Rouhani...
( Iran )
Tehran:Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says the Islamic Republic has opened a new chapter in its relations with the world, as Tehran and the six world powers begin implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). In a Sunday statement, President Rouhani congratulated the Iranian nation on the implementation of the historic nuclear agreement reached between Iran and the P5+1 group of countries on July 14, 2015. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and European Union foreign...
New evidence shows Saudi use of cluster bombs in Yemen:Amnes...
( Yemen )
Geneva:Amnesty International says new evidence confirms that Saudi Arabia has used US-manufactured cluster munitions in a recent airstrike on the Yemeni capital of Sana’a. On Friday, the London-based rights group said Riyadh dropped the internationally banned cluster munitions on Sana’a in an air attack on January 6, which killed a 16-year-old boy and injured at least six other civilians. The organization also said the attack scattered submunitions in at least four different residential neighborhoods. Amnesty...
Israeli court rejects Palestinian bid for jail release...
( Palestine )
Gaza:An Israeli military court has dismissed an appeal by a hunger striking Palestinian journalist to end his administrative detention. Palestinian Minister for Prisoner Affairs Issa Qaraqe told Ma’an news agency on Saturday that the Ofer prison court ruled to maintain the six-month administrative detention period forMuhammad al-Qiq despite the inmate’s worsening health condition. Qaraqe said the court’s decision “proves intentions of revenge” by the Tel Aviv regime against the Palestinian...
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...
(Srinagar)
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...