ISIL claims responsibility for deadly Manchester attack

The Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group has taken responsibility for Monday night's attack at the Manchester Arena that killed 22 people, including children, and wounded 59 others. "One of the soldiers of the Caliphate was able to place an explosive device within a gathering of the Crusaders...

Melania Forgoes Hijab on Saudi Trip as Trump Ignores Riyadh War Crimes

The US first lady Melania Trump, Like her predecessor Michelle Obama, waived the legal requirement to wear hijab, a full-length robe and headscarf, in public as she accompanied Trump at his visit to Saudi Arabia on Saturday. Donald Trump in 2015 posted a tweet on his official account saying Obama's...

China Killed over 12 US Spies, Unraveled CIA Network

China has killed or jailed some 20 CIA sources between 2010 to 2012, systematically dismantling the spy agency's operations in the country, US officials say. An intelligence breach lasting for two years led to imprisonment or killing of the informants working for the US Central Intelligence Agency,...

Yemenis Protest US Arms Deal with Riyadh as Trump Faces Censure at Home

Yemeni people held mass rally the capital city of Sana'a to protest the US complicity in Saudi Arabia's aggression against their nation. Thousands of people poured to the streets of Sana'a as US President Donald Trump was visiting the oil-rich kingdom as his maiden foreign trip. The...

Trump, Tillerson meet Russia�s top diplomat at White House

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has met with US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Washington, on a trip overshadowed by the firing of former FBI chief James Comey. Lavrov met with Trump and Tillerson on Wednesday as he visited the White House for the first time...

Iran�s Enemies Seek to Create Insecurity, Sedition: Ayatollah Khamenei

Leader of Iran's Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayyed Ali says the enemy's short-term goal is meant to distort the country's security and trigger chaos and sedition. Speaking at Imam Hussein AS University in Tehran on Wednesday at the graduation ceremony of IRGC cadets, Ayatollah Khamenei...

Germany to launch reforms in army, defense minister says

Germany’s Defense Ministry plans to begin a reform process in the army’s recruitment and education system amid reports that far-right sympathizers in the military have been plotting to launch hate attacks in the country. Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday that...

Russia�s Putin Urges Global Unity to Combat Terrorism, Extremism

Russian President Vladimir Putin says in order to effectively combat terrorism, extremism, and neo-Nazism the entire world community should unite. Putin made the remarks during a Victory Day parade at Moscow's Red Square, adding that the lessons of the past should not be ignored. "The lessons of...

14 killed in Mexico fireworks warehouse explosion

An explosion at a fireworks warehouse in Mexico has killed at least 14 people and wounded 22 in the second such tragedy in a matter of months. The blast occurred Monday night in a rural area of central Puebla state, Diodoro Carrasco, a senior official in the state government, told radio station...

Terrorists safe havens will be hit in Pakistan, Tehran warns Islamabad Terrorists safe havens will be hit in Pakistan, Tehran warns Islamabad

Iran has warned that the safe havens of the terrorist group will be hit if the Pakistani government failed to take actions against them. The head of the Iranian armed forces Major General Mohammad Baqeri issued the warnings following a deadly attack that left at least ten Iranian soldiers dead as the...

Cholera Outbreak in Yemen: Over 1,600 Cases Detected in 12 Provinces

Yemeni health minister says some 1,700 cases of cholera have surfaced in the country, as Saudi Arabia's deadly aggression rages on against the poorest Arab nation.  Sabanews.net cited Mohamed bin Hafedh as saying that 1,681 cases of cholera have been detected in 12 provinces of the war-torn...

Saudi kingdom will be destroyed if Riyadh does anything 'ignorant'

Following Saudi deputy crown prince's comments about moving the battle to Iran, Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan says if the Saudis do anything stupid, the Iranian army will hit back and destroy all of the kingdom -- apart from Mecca and Medina. Dehqan gave the warning in...

Israeli forces shoot, kill Palestinian woman over alleged stabbing attempt

Israeli military forces have shot dead a young Palestinian woman in the Old City of the occupied East Jerusalem al-Quds for allegedly attempting to carry out a stabbing attack. Israeli police spokeswoman, Luba al-Samri, said the Palestinian woman was shot after she purportedly approached Israeli...

Macron Trounces Le Pen to Win French Presidency amid Low Turnout

Emmanuel Macron has won the French presidency by beating far-right Marine Le Pen amid a historically low turnout of voters. Pollsters projected that Macron won 65 percent of the votes Sunday. Le Pen's projected 35 percent score was lower than her polling numbers earlier in the campaign. Many French...

Scared Bahraini Regime Postpones Ayatollah Sheikh Qassim�s Trial

The Bahraini regime has once again postponed the verdict issuance in the case of Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim amid rising tensions in the tiny Persian Gulf sheikhdom. Bahrain's fourth high criminal court decided in its Sunday session to postpone the verdict issuance in the case of Ayatollah Sheikh...

US to Ink Multi-Billion Arms Deal with Saudis amid War Crimes in Yemen

The US is working hard to ink deals for tens of billions of dollars in arms sales to Saudi Arabia, despite the regime's ongoing aggression on neighboring Yemen that has killed over 12,000 people since March 2015. In a major shift from its predecessor, Donald Trump's administration has been negotiating...

US losing leadership in world, EU filling the gap: Mogherini

European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini says the United States is “losing its leadership” position in the world, presenting an "opportunity” for the EU to become a “reliable partner” on the international stage. “There is an opportunity for the Europeans...

Scrapping Iran deal in no one�s interest: EU�s Mogherini

The European Union (EU)’s foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, says scrapping a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran would be in the interest of no one, something she says the United States must have come to understand by now. “I believe the new US administration must have understood...

�US using North Korea pretext to launch nuclear attack on China

The United States is using the pretext of North Korea to build up its military capabilities in order to launch a nuclear attack on China, an American writer and retired professor says. James Petras, who has written dozens of books on international issues, made the remarks in an interview with...

Pentagon admits March strike hit a 'mosque complex' in Syria

Pentagon officials have finally admitted that a March airstrike in northern Syria did in fact hit a mosque, killing dozens of people. An investigation by the US Central Command found that the March 16 airstrike targeted a building that was part of a "mosque complex" in a village west of Aleppo, two...

Syria safe zones closed for US-led warplanes: Russian envoy

Russia says the de-escalation zones agreed to be formed in four conflict zones across Syria will be closed for warplanes of the US and its coalition allies. “In terms of their actions in the de-escalation zones then from this moment these zones are closed for their flights,” the Kremlin’s...

US Senate Republicans hesitate on Obamacare repeal bill

US Senate Republicans have announced that they plan to make major changes to the Obamacare replacement legislation that was pushed through the US House of Representatives, less than a day after the bill was approved by the House Rules Committee​.   “We’re writing a Senate...

North Korea will not beg for China�s friendship: State media

North Korea will not “beg” to maintain the friendship of its major ally, China, North Korean state media have said in rare remarks against Beijing. In a commentary published by the North’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Wednesday, Pyongyang rejected as “reckless”...

Coal mine explosion leaves casualties in NE Iran

At least 21 miners have lost their lives and scores of others been injured in a coal mine explosion in the northeastern Iranian province of Golestan. Sadeq-Ali Moqaddam, head of the emergency department of Golestan Province, said that 21 bodies were recovered from the mine following the Wednesday explosion...

Russia, Turkey underline need to continue anti-terror fight

Russia and Turkey have both underscored the need to continue the fight against terrorism and step up safe zones in war-tron Syria. Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a joint news conference with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Black Sea resort of Sochi...

Iran, Pakistan agree to boost cooperation on border security: Zarif

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says Tehran and Islamabad have agreed to increase cooperation to boost security at the two countries’ border areas. “During my meeting today with Pakistani army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa, he promised to deploy army forces to the...

Myanmar rejects UN probe into crimes against Rohingya

Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has rejected a decision by the United Nation’s rights council to investigate allegations of killings, rape and torture by army forces against Rohingya Muslims in the county’s troubled Rakhine State. Suu Kyi said in a news conference...

'Venezuela opposition not interested in reviving economy'

Venezuela has for weeks been the scene of bloody riots. The government is the target of heavy criticism from the opposition over a large-scale economic crisis, escalated by an acute shortage of food and medicine. President Nicolas Maduro’s latest call for a new popular assembly to rewrite the...

Fourth round of Syria peace talks opens in Kazakh capital

Astana is hosting a fourth round of talks in the Kazakh capital between the Syrian government and the opposition aimed at resolving the now six-year foreign-backed militancy in the Arab country. The International Meetings on Syrian Settlement, as the talks are officially known, kicked off on ...

Al-Qaeda Militants Fight alongside US-Backed Forces in Yemen: Group�s Leader

Al-Qaeda militants have often fought alongside Saudi-paid and US-backed Yemeni mercenaries against Ansarullah resistance movement, the terrorist group's leader in Yemen said. "We fight along all Muslims in Yemen, together with different Islamic groups," Associated Press cited Qasim al-Rimi as saying. Leader...