69 killed, dozens injured in Saudi attacks on Yemen

At least 69 people have been killed and dozens of others sustained injuries in attacks by Saudi Arabia on Yemen. According to local media outlets, at least 40 Yemeni soldiers were killed in Saudi air strikes on the Yemeni military headquarters of al-Aber in the Yemeni central province of Hadramout...

New attacks in northwest Nigeria kill over 30

New attacks by unidentified assailants in the northwestern state of Zamfara in Nigeria have killed at least 32 people amid a recent escalation of terror attacks in the African country. The latest attack took place in the Birnin-Magaji area of the state. Local government chairman Muhammad Gusami...

23 Palestinians killed, 2,156 abducted by Israel in 2015: PLO

At least 23 Palestinians have been killed and another 2,156 abducted by Israeli forces since the beginning of the current year, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) says. In a Sunday report, the PLO also said 131 Palestinian houses were demolished in armed operations carried out by Israeli...

Foreign investment in Israel down by near 50%: UNCTAD

Foreign investment in Israel has dropped by nearly 50 percent, a new UN report says, with the 2014 Israeli war on Gaza and international boycott efforts against the regime cited as key factors for the sharp decline. According to the World Investment Report 2014 by the United Nations Conference on...

Bomb attack kills 16, injures several at Shia mosque in Kuwait City

At least 16 people have been killed and over two dozen others injured in a bomb attack at Imam Sadiq (PBUH) Mosque in Kuwait City, reports say. The bombing was carried out during the weekly Friday prayers at the mosque in the Sawabir district of the Kuwaiti capital. The Takfiri ISIL terrorist...

Devastating heat waves kill 140 people in Sindh, Pakistan

Devastating heat waves have claimed at least 140 lives in Sindh province of Pakistan. Most of them lost lives in Karachi, the provincial capital and the largest city in Pakistan, where the temperature had reached to 44.8 degrees Celsius on Saturday. According to CNN, this is the highest temperature...

Cameron threatens to close BBC over election biased coverage

British Prime Minister David Cameron has reportedly threatened to shut down the state-funded British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) over its biased coverage of the latest general election in the European country. Cameron threatened to “close down” the broadcaster in a bid to exert...

Russia economic sector open to world: Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin has reiterated that his country does not seek a confrontation with the West, saying doors remain open to economic cooperation between Moscow and Western governments, amid a dispute over the crisis in Ukraine. “Russia is open to the world,” Putin told...

Turkey�s Erdogan pushes for coalition amid uncertainty

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has held a surprise meeting with a senior opposition figure as part of purported efforts to form a coalition government. The two-hour unannounced meeting on Wednesday in Ankara saw Erdogan sit down with Deniz Baykal of the opposition Republican...

Saudi warplanes strike NW Yemen with cluster bombs

Saudi fighter jets have reportedly used cluster bombs in their fresh attacks against border areas in Yemen’s northwestern province of Sa’ada as Riyadh pushes ahead with a military onslaught against its impoverished southern neighbor. On Monday afternoon, Saudi warplanes dropped cluster...

Obama: 'We don't have complete strategy� on ISIL

US President Barack Obama acknowledges that the United States and its allies don’t have a “complete strategy” in pushing back the ISIL terrorist group in Iraq and Syria. "We don't yet have a complete strategy because it requires commitments on the part of the Iraqis as well...

Bodies of migrants washed ashore in Myanmar: Report

Dozens of bodies, believed to be those of Rohingya Muslims and Bangladeshi migrants, have reportedly been washed ashore in Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine in May. The Arakan Project said on Wednesday that at least 47 corpses washed up on beaches and the mouths of rivers between May...

Russia says preparing S-300 for delivery to Iran by 2016

Russia is assembling its S-300 surface-to-air missile defense system to begin its shipment to Iran by 2016, the Kremlin’s top official for the arms trade says. Speaking in an interview on Tuesday, Vladimir Kozhin, President Vladimir Putin’s aide on military-technical cooperation,...

Saudi warplanes pound new areas across Yemen

Saudi military aircraft have conducted a fresh round of attacks against several areas across Yemen as Riyadh presses ahead with an atrocious military campaign against its impoverished southern neighbor. On Wednesday morning, massive explosions shook the Yemeni capital of Sana’a as Saudi fighter...

Fresh Saudi air raids leave 7 dead in Yemen

At least seven people have been killed and several others wounded in the latest wave of airstrikes conducted by Saudi Arabia against Yemen. The casualties came after Saudi warplanes bombarded a hospital in the Bani Hashish district of Yemen’s western province of Sana’a on Saturday. Saudi...

Russian FM slams unauthorized US raids in Syria

The Russian foreign minister has slammed Washington’s unauthorized airstrikes in Syrian territory as a breach of international law, saying the US follows a dual policy in the battle against the ISIL Takfiri terror group. Sergei Lavrov stated in a Friday interview...

Iraqis make gains against ISIL in Ramadi

The Iraqi Interior Ministry says army soldiers and volunteer forces have made gains against ISIL Takfiri militants in the city of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar Province. The ministry made the announcement in a statement on Wednesday, confirming that Iraqi forces had surrounded the city from...

Indian heat wave death toll passes 1,400

The death toll from the heat wave in India has passed 1,400 as the sunstroke still continues. Most of the death toll has been reported from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states with more than 1,000 people lost lives only in Andhra Pradesh since May 18 due to the intense heat. Most of the deaths in...

9 dead, 32 injured in Chicago weekend shootings

Summertime has begun violently in Chicago, with nine people being killed in Memorial Day weekend shootings across the third most populous city in the United States. At least 32 other people have been injured in the shooting incidents, including a 4-year-old girl, who was shot in the...

Hezbollah victories belong to all Lebanon: Nasrallah

Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah says the resistance movement’s success in forcing Israeli forces out of Lebanon’s soil 15 years ago was a victory for all Lebanese and Muslims. Nasrallah made the remarks in the southern town of Nabatiyeh on Sunday during a televised...

Leader warns of plots to sow discord among Muslims

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has warned that enemies of Islam are pursuing plots to sow discord among Muslim nations. Some heads of Muslim states mistake enemies for friends, Ayatollah Khamenei said in a meeting with participants at the 32nd International Holy...

Hezbollah may mobilize public against Takfiris: Nasrallah

Hezbollah Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah has slammed Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia for forming an anti-resistance alliance, saying he may declare a popular mobilization against the Takfiris in Syria. Addressing a gathering of Hezbollah commanders and forces in southern Beirut via...

Iran allows no foreign inspection of military sites: Leader

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says Iran will not allow any inspections by foreigners of its military sites. “They (P5+1 countries) are making new comments in the [nuclear] negotiations. Regarding the inspections, we have said that we will not allow foreigners...

Enemy failing to sow ethnic discord in Kurdistan'

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the enemy has failed in its attempts to create ethnic and religious discord in the Kurdistan region. The remarks were part of the Leader's written statements read out at a congress commemorating Muslim Kurdish Peshmerga...

The Night of Prophethood of Prophet Muhammad observed with devotion across Kashmir / Pics

(night of ascent) was observed with religious fervour at various mosques and shrines across the Kashmir Valley with people taking part in night -long prayers.Religious preachers delivered sermons highlighting the importance of the occasion at various places of worship even as the devout kept themselves...

6 injured in blasts targeting Turkish party

At least six people have been wounded in two concurrent explosions at the regional headquarters of a pro-Kurdish party in Turkey’s southern cities of Adana and Mersin, a source says. On Monday, six people were injured after an explosion hit the office of the People’s Democratic Party...

Tehran raps as �contradictory� US-Arab Camp David statement

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman has denounced as “contradictory” a recent statement released by the United States and the (Persian) Gulf Cooperation Council at Camp David. On Friday, Marzieh Afkham said that the Camp David joint statement exposed the contradiction in the words...

Iran complains to UNSC of Riyadh siege on Yemen

Iran has lodged a complaint with the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) over Riyadh’s blockade on Yemen and Saudi Arabia's blocking of aid deliveries to its neighboring country. In the letter of complaint, Iran’s envoy to the United Nations Golam...

Leader warns Riyadh over impacts of aggression on Yemen

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has described Saudi Arabia's ongoing military aggression in Yemen as a big mistake, saying the venture will certainly backfire on the kingdom. “The Saudis committed a big mistake in Yemen and the impacts of the crimes...

Militant attack leaves 47 Shia pilgrims dead in Pakistan

At least 47 people have been killed and tens of others wounded after unidentified armed men launched an attack on a bus carrying Shia Muslim pilgrims in Pakistan's southern province of Sindh. At least 47 people have been killed and 24 others wounded in an attack during...