Massive rally held in Barcelona in support of independence referendum

Tens of thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets of the Spanish city of Barcelona, the capital of the autonomous Catalan region, to voice their support for the Catalonia independence referendum called for October 1. The pro-independence demonstrators convened at Montjuic hill on Sunday,...

Britain in Turmoil after Conservatives Loose Parliamentary Majority

Britain has been plunged into political turmoil after the Conservative party lost crucial parliamentary majority as Brexit talks loom. Prime Minister Theresa May faces an uncertain future after her election gamble backfired with the opposition Labor Party, led by leftist Jeremy Corbyn performing much...

US sends mixed signals over Saudi spat with Qatar

US President Donald Trump and his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson have sent mixed signals over a rift between Qatar and its regional neighbors. Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, and several other countries cut off diplomatic ties with Qatar on Monday over allegations...

Iran says arrested 48 Daesh Wahhabi terrorists

Iran says that it has arrested nearly 50 members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group accross the country following recent twin terrorist attacks in Tehran. Following a series of sophisticated intelligence operations and with the cooperation of the families of some of the terrorists,...

Turkey parliament approves troop deployment to Qatar

Turkey's parliament approves a measure to deploy troops to a Turkish military base in Qatar amid a widening rift between the Arab country and neighbors in the Persian Gulf region. The parliament approved the deployment on Wednesday with 240 lawmakers in favor, most of them from the ruling party...

Daesh sponsors accomplices in Tehran�s twin terror attacks: IRGC

Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says those who have aided and abetted the Daesh terror group are accomplices in twin attacks claimed by the Takfiri group in the Iranian capital. In a Wednesday statement, the IRGC condemned the twin terror attacks in Tehran and blamed...

Rouhani: Iran to crush any enemy plots through unity, integrity

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has condemned Tehran’s twin terror attacks as “cowardly,” stressing the country will crush enemies’ plots through unity and integrity. “The Iranian nation … will prove once again that it will crush any plot or scheme by ill-wishers...

ISIS Claims Responsibility for Twin Attacks in Iran Capital; 12 Killed, 42 Injured

At least twelve people were killed and 42 were injured in two separate attacks against Iran’s Parliament and the Mausoleum of Imam Khomeini in the capital Tehran. people were killed, including parliament's guards and civilians, when four gunmen, holding AK-47 assault rifles and pistol,...

What Is behind Fresh Qatar-Saudi Crisis?

During the nearly four decades of life of their bloc, the Arab states of the (Persian) Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) have failed to attain their ideal of political consistency and strategic unity just like their pattern the European Union. Such a failure to achieve goal is apparently observable...

May says will rip up human rights laws in terror fight

British Prime Minister Theresa May says she will rip up human rights laws that impede her government’s fight against terrorism in the wake of deadly terrorist attacks in Manchester and London. The premier made the comments about her security agenda on Tuesday as the June 8 general election...

Rights groups: Saudis planning to execute 14 Shias after unfair trial

International rights groups say Saudi Arabia plans to execute 14 Shia civilians following "grossly unfair trial" over political protests. "The rise in death sentences against Saudi Arabian Shia is alarming and suggests that the authorities are using the death penalty to settle scores and crush dissent...

Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain, UAE Sever Diplomatic Ties with Qatar

Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and UAE have severed diplomatic ties with Qatar amid a simmering row among US allies in the region. The three countries said they will suspend air and sea travel to and from Qatar. Saudi Arabia said it will shut land crossings with its neighbor, according to the official...

Ten Killed, Dozens Injured after Assailants Plow Van into Crowd, Stab People in London

Ten people, including three assailants have been during a terrorist attack on London Bridge bars on Saturday night. Attackers killed after they drove a van at high speed into pedestrians on London Bridge before stabbing people on the street and in nearby bars on Saturday night. Armed police rushed...

37 injured as Explosion Hits Hypermarket in Shiraz, Iran

A huge blast rocked a Hypermarket in the southwest Iranian city of Shiraz early on Saturday wounding 37 people, IRNA reported saying no body was killed in the incident. The Explosion that occurred at 00:45 local time (21:15 GMT) damaged nearby buildings and shattered glasses within 30 meters from the...

Trump�s decision on Paris deal to affect foreign direct investment: UN

President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the US from the landmark Paris agreement will affect foreign direct investment (FDI) and may lead to investor-state arguments, says the head of investment at the UN trade and development agency UNCTAD. James Zhan, senior director of investment...

Putin: Normalization of Russia-US ties to benefit both sides

Russian President Vladimir Putin says restoration of normal ties between Moscow and Washington will serve the interests of both sides, vowing to continue dialogue with US President Donald Trump. "Normalization of bilateral relations is in the interest of the two countries. And we will continue...

Trump's claims against Iran �lead to nowhere�: Russia

US President Donald Trump's claim that Iran supports terrorism will not lead anywhere, says Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, citing Moscow's own anti-terror work with Tehran. Trump made the allegation during his recent visit to Saudi Arabia, where he accused Iran of destabilizing...

German FM Harshly Slammed Trump for Weakening EU, Fueling Crisis in Mideast

Germany's foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel blamed the US president Donald Trump for weakening the West, fueling crisis in the west Asia region, sealing multibillion arms deal with a despotic regime like Saudi Arabia. A day after German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared that Europe could no longer...

Russia Says Syria Never Used Chemical Weapons, Alarmed by US Threats

Alwaght- Russian President rejects any suggestion that Syrian government forces were behind a chemical attack that killed scores of people in Idlib province in April. In an interview with the French daily newspaper Le Figaro, Russian President Vladimir Putin reaffirmed that, "According to our information,...

At least 20 civilians killed in US-led airstrikes in Iraq's Mosul: Report

At least 20 Iraqi civilians have been killed in airstrikes conducted by the so-called US-led coalition in the northern parts of Mosul's Old City, a report says. According to Arabic-language al-Forat news agency, the air raid, which was conducted on al-Farouq and Hazir al-Sadeh districts on...

Some members of Manchester network terror still at large: UK interior minister

Some members of the terror network, whose activities led to Monday’s deadly attack in Manchester are still potentially at large, says the British interior minister. Amber Rudd made the comments on Sunday as a 25-year-old was arrested in connection to Manchester suicide bomber Salman Abedi...

US, Britain no longer reliable partners for EU: Merkel

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned members of the European Union (EU) that they should no longer count on the United States and Britain as reliable partners, saying that the continental bloc "must take its fate into its own hands.” Merkel said Sunday that the EU is faced with an...

Death toll of landslides, floods in Sri Lanka reaches 113

Death toll from recent landslides and floods, triggered by monsoon, in Sri Lanka has reached 113, as the island nation has sought international assistance. The state-run disaster management center, while updating the death toll from an earlier figure of 91, said on Saturday that nearly 100 people...

Merkel says climate talks at G7 summit 'very unsatisfactory'

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says talks on climate change in a summit in Italy of the seven wealthy nations, known as the G7, were not successful as US President Donald Trump calls for more time to announce his position on the issue and whether Washington would remain committed to the landmark...

Iran, Russia presidents discuss JCPOA implementation, Middle East developments

The presidents of Iran and Russia have discussed the implementation of the landmark 2015 nuclear agreement between the Islamic Republic and the P5+1 group of countries as well as the latest developments in the Middle East. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday held a phone conversation...

EU proposes one-year timetable to Turkey to renew ties: Erdogan

The European Union has proposed a one-year timetable to Turkey to renew relations between the two sides, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said after returning home from a NATO summit in Brussels, where he met some European leaders. Turkish media on Saturday cited Erdogan as saying in an...

Five Killed 100s Detained as Bahraini Regime Attacks Peaceful Protest

Bahraini security forces killed at least five and injured hundreds on Tuesday attacking protesters outside Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim's homein Diraz village. The regime's interior ministry conferred the toll, adding that over Al Khalifa troops also detained 286 people who were holding sit-in...

US-led airstrikes kills over dozen civilians in northern Syria

A so-called monitoring group says more than a dozen civilians have lost their lives when the US-led coalition purportedly fighting the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group carried out a string of aerial attacks against an area in Syria’s militant-held northern province of Raqqah. The Syrian...

Trump should engage in talks with Iran: Kofi Annan

Former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan urges US President Donald Trump to engage in talks with Iran rather than retaining his current antagonistic stance towards the Islamic Republic. Trump has adopted an invariably harsh tone when talking about Tehran, calling it the “number...

Five people killed in Bahrain raids on top shia cleric's home

Bahrain's Interior Ministry has announced the death of five people in raids on protesters gathering in the northwestern village of Dirza. On Tuesday, over 280 people were also detained during the attack, according to the ministry. Earlier in the day, Bahraini regime forces stormed...