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ISIS Media Director Surrenders to Iraq Army in Anbar...
( Iraq )
Baghdad:A media director of the ISIS Takfiri terrorist group has surrendered himself to Iraqi forces in the western province of Anbar, local media say. Iraq’s Arabic news channel al-Sumaria quoted a source as saying on Wednesday that Mohammed Sager Salman known as Abu Ahmed al-Garehguli gave important details about senior Daesh (ISIS/ISIL) figures and its military strategies to the Iraqi army. The source said that Salman had recently been appointed as the head of the Takfiri group’s media...
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...
Syrians should decide own fate: Ayatollah Khamenei in a meet...
( Iran )
Tehran:Leader of the Muslism Ummah and Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in a meeting on Sunday with Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama highlighted Iran’s positive and favorable position with regard to enhanced cooperation with African countries since the very onset of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, noting: “Hegemonic powers are opposed to Iran’s warm relations with Africa and are also the main source of wars, conflicts and supply of terrorist groups, but the remedy to all...
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...
Entire Indian leadership committed to Palestinian cause: Sus...
( India )
New Delhi:External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday said the entire Indian leadership remains steadfastly committed to the Palestinian cause as Palestine sought India’s participation in the West Asia peace process to help defuse crisis in the region. Swaraj, who is on her first visit to West Asia as the External Affairs Minister, held talks with the top leadership here and reaffirmed India’s consistent support for the Palestinian cause, emphasising that there has been “absolutely...
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...