Saudi Arabia bought $1.5bn worth of bombs from UK last summer

Britain sold the Saudis over 1.5 billion dollars worth of arms last summer that saw Riyadh escalate its deadly military campaign against Yemen, say human rights groups. From July to September 2015, the British government authorized the sales under an export category which covers missiles, rockets...

Israel conducted 570+ attacks on reporters in 2015: Report

A new report has cataloged around 574 instances of attacks against reporters by Israeli forces during the course of the last year. The number was featured in the Annual Report by the Palestine Office of the Islamic Radios and Televisions Union. According to the report, two of the incidents were...

21 Killed, 50 Wounded In Pakistan University Attack

At least 21 people have been killed and over 50 wounded after a number of gunmen stormed the Bacha Khan University in Charsadda town in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan early Wednesday morning. A number of armed men entered the university and opened fire at about 9am local time. Several explosions...

Raheel Sharif Oversees Clearance Op After Deadly University Attack

Pakistan's Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raheel Sharif has arrived at the Bacha Khan University in Khyber Pakhtunkha's Charsadda town to oversee the clearance operation by military forces following Wednesday's deadly attack against the facility. Officials have so far confirmed that four gunmen...

Sanctions imposed over Iran�s nuclear program lifted

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...

Iran: All sanctions to be annulled today

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says “all oppressive sanctions imposed against the Islamic Republic will be annulled today.” “Today, with the submission of the report by the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the JCPOA will in...

Saudi warplanes kill 30 in NW Yemen

At least 30 people have been killed ​in a Saudi airstrike in northwestern Yemen, a day after six troops were killed at a military base of the kingdom near the border.    The fatalities came on Saturday during an air raid on residential buildings in the Dhahian...

Al-Qaeda Attack On Burkina Faso Hotel Kills 20

At least 20 people have been killed and others were being held hostage in an ongoing Al-Qaeda attack on a hotel in the capital of Burkina Faso popular with United Nations staff and westerners. A fire raged in the main entrance of Ouagadougou's four-star Splendid hotel and screams could be heard...

Clinton plans advertising blitz to fend off surging Sanders

US Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton is planning a massive advertising blitz to fend off the challenge from Senator Bernie Sanders, according to a report. In the first three months of 2016, Clinton’s campaign would almost double the proportion of money it devoted to...

Obama lifts ban on aircraft sale to Iran

US President Barack Obama has lifted a decades-old ban on the export of civilian passenger aircraft to Iran as Tehran prepares to see sanctions relief. President Obama delegated that authority to Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday through a presidential memorandum, a directive similar to...

Turkey arrests 12 academics for signing declaration

Turkey arrests 12 academics for signing a petition that calls on Ankara to end its military campaign against Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the country's southeast.  The academics are among more than 1,200 people from 90 Turkish universities who last week signed...

Ayat. Sistani urges Iraqi govt. to protect Sunni mosques

Iraq's top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani condemns bombings on Sunni mosques in the province of Diyala. Ayatollah Sistani said Friday he placed full responsibility for protection of mosques and preventing repetition of such attacks on the government security forces. His message...

At least 7 dead as bombs hit Jakarta

Daesh-linked attackers strike at the heart of Jakarta, the capital of the most populated Muslim country, leaving at least seven people dead.  Police said five attackers and two civilians were killed and 19 others injured in the assault copying "the pattern of the Paris...

Car bomb kills five, destroys police HQ in southeast Turkey

A devastating explosion has reportedly ripped through a multi-storey police headquarters in Turkey’s southeastern province of Diyarbakir, killing five people and wounding 39 others. The incident occurred late on Wednesday when an explosive-laden car hit the headquarters in Cinar district...

UNICEF calls for urgent help for 10 million Yemeni children

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warns that millions of Yemeni children are in need of urgent help, amid the Saudi-led war on the impoverished country. “With no end in sight to the deadly conflict in Yemen, nearly 10 million children inside the country are...

IRGC move in Persian Gulf shows Iran might: MP

A senior Iranian lawmaker says the recent capture of US Navy troops for trespassing indicated that the security of the Persian Gulf is under the control of the Islamic Republic. MP Alaeddin Boroujerdi made the remarks in a Thursday message to Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi,...

100s of New Zealanders hold rally over Nimr execution, urge premier to cut ties with Saudi

Hundreds of people have held a protest rally in New Zealand’s most populous city of Auckland to voice outrage at Saudi Arabia’s recent execution of prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr and demand country’s premier to sever relations with Riyadh.   Around 300 people...

US may deploy more strategic assets to South Korea

The United States may deploy further strategic assets to South Korea in the wake of the latest nuclear test by the North. Washington and Seoul are in talks towards sending further strategic US assets to the Korean peninsula, a day after a US B-52 bomber flew over South Korea. "The United States...

Israel nabbed 100s of kids in 2015: Rights group

The majority of the Palestinians arrested by Israeli regime forces in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) in 2015 were children, among them minors under the age of 14, says a prisoner’s rights group. The Palestinian Prisoners’ Center for Studies said in a report on Sunday that the Tel Aviv regime...

Leader warns of enemy attempts to harm Iran

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says enemies have left no stone unturned over the past decades to destroy Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution. In a Saturday meeting with a group of people from the holy city of Qom, Ayatollah Khamenei said the Islamic Republic...

Execution of Sheikh Nimr Points to Saudi Terrorism, Arrogance, Collapse: Nasrallah

Hezbollah Secretary General says Saudi regime’s execution of prominent Islamic scholar Sheikh Nimr Baqir Al Nimr points to the regime’s terrorism and arrogance   which will lead to its downfall. Speaking on Sunday, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah asserted...

US calls on Saudi Arabia to respect human rights

The United States has called on Saudi Arabia to have fair judicial proceedings and respect human rights after Riyadh executed prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr and 46 other people. "We reaffirm our calls on the Government of Saudi Arabia to respect and protect human rights, and to ensure...

UN chief expresses �dismay� at Sheikh Nimr's execution by Riyadh

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says he is “deeply dismayed” by Saudi Arabia’s execution of prominent Shia cleric, Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, calling on the Riyadh regime to commute all death sentences handed down in the kingdom. “Sheikh Nimr and a...

Saudi executes 47 people, including Sheikh Nimr

Saudi Arabia has executed Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr along with 47 others in defiance of international calls for the release of the prominent Shia cleric and other jailed political dissidents in the kingdom. The state-run Saudi Press Agency (SPA) and state television reported the executions...

Gunmen Attack Indian Air Force Base Near Pakistan Border

Suspected Islamist gunmen attacked an Indian air force base near the border with Pakistan early Saturday, security officials said, with at least two of the militants killed and fighting ongoing. A top security official, who asked not to be named, told AFP that the gunmen were believed to be from...

Russia approves updated sanctions against Turkey

The Russian government has ratified a set of updated sanctions against Turkey amid a row between the two countries that started after the downing of a Russian jet by the Turkish military. According to the updated list of Moscow’s sanctions against Ankara on the Kremlin’s website,...

US exceptionalism hinders fight on terrorism: Lavrov

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says the United States' belief in being an “exceptional” country is an impediment to the fight against terrorism. “The factor which is not helping the matter is the American comprehension of being an exceptional nation,” Lavrov...

Bomb downed Russia plane in Egypt: Investigator

The sound heard in the last cockpit recording of a Russian passenger plane which recently crashed in Egypt was caused by a bomb explosion, an investigator says. "The indications and analysis so far of the sound on the black box indicate it was a bomb," a member of the Egyptian team...

Israeli forces kill two more Palestinians in West Bank

Israeli forces have shot dead two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank in their latest acts of violence against Palestinians in the occupied territories. The first shooting occurred on Sunday near a junction south of the city of Nablus, with Israeli forces claiming that the victim had rammed...

India ruling party loses major state election

India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has conceded defeat after failing to win the majority of seats in a crucial election in the populous state of Bihar. On Sunday, India’s election commission said an alliance of parties, linked to main opposition Congress party, running...