Scuffles break out in demo between far-right, anti-fascism protesters

Scuffles break out as anti-fascist activists take on marches planned by far-right and anti-Islam groups, including the English Defense League, across the UK. Hundreds of police officers were dispatched to streets in the capital London and the country's second biggest city Birmingham Saturday...

�Build bridges, not walls,� British Labour leader tells US president

British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has asked US President Donald Trump to, “Build bridges, not walls.” Corbyn made the remarks during a speech he delivered at England’s famous, huge Glastonbury Festival on Saturday. “Look on the wall right over there that surrounds...

Thousands of South Koreans protest against THAAD deployment

Thousands of people in the South Korean capital, Seoul, have protested against the deployment of an advanced American missile system in their country, accusing US President Donald trump of "forcing" the South's leaders to install the controversial system in the Korean Peninsula. Some 4,000...

Hundreds of Greek activists protest against refugee squats evacuation

Hundreds of Greek activists and refugees have held a protest rally in the capital Athens against a court ruling for evacuation of several squats that provide residence to refugees and migrants. Around 700 protesters marched from the City Plaza, a major refugee squat in central Athens, to the...

Atta Noor Accuses Security Institutions Of Inefficiency

In a pre-recorded video message, Balkh governor Atta Mohammad Noor called Ramadan (May 27 to June 24) the deadliest month for Afghanistan, saying that the reason behind the bloodshed is the inefficiency of security agencies. He said the country would face a crisis if reforms are not brought to government...

U.S Moves To Close Afghanistan, Pakistan Affairs Office

U.S State Department officials have told American media organizations that the State Department's Special Representative Office for Afghanistan and Pakistan will be closed. A well-known American diplomat, Richard Holbrooke, established the office for Afghanistan and Pakistan affairs during former...

China�s FM Meets Rabbani In Follow Up Of Shanghai Summit

China's Foreign Minister, Wang Yi arrived in Kabul on Sunday morning for scheduled talks with a number of high-ranking government officials. On arrival, he met with Afghan acting foreign minister Salahuddin Rabbani and number of other officials where they discussed the agreements forged between...

Afghanistan declares Sunday first day of Eid-ul-Fitr

The supreme court of Afghanistan confirmed Sunday, the 25th of June, as the first day of Eid-ul-Fitr in the country. The Saudi Arabia authorities earlier announced that Sunday will be the first day of Eid-ul-Fitr 1438. Apart from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Malaysia, Indonesia and the United Arab Emirates...

Iran�s Missiles Used in Syria Anti-ISIS Strike Displayed at Tehran Quds Day Rally

International Quds Day rallies in Tehran have been marked with a spectacular display of versions of missiles that Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps fired at ISIS terrorist group positions inside Syria. Organizers of the International Quds Days rallies in Tehran put on display the ‘Zolfaqar’...

Saudi-Led Arab Regimes Issue Qatar with 13 Demands to End Blockade

Four Arab regimes demanded on Friday that Qatar downgrades ties with Iran, halt military cooperation with Turkey and shut the Al Jazeera TV channel as conditions to end a blockade on the Persian Gulf state. According to media reports, the list of conditions Qatar needs to meet in order to mend ties...

Kabul police commandment and Garrison gets new acting commanders

The new acting commanders of the Kabul police commandment and garrison command assumed their duties on Thursday, days after the previous chiefs of the two commands were suspended due to the violent protests and deadly attacks in the capital city of Afghanistan. Gen. Afzal Aman assumed charge of the...

Removal of barricades starts in Kabul city today: officials

The Afghan government officials are saying that the removal of barricades from across the Kabul roads will be launched today based on a decree by President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani. The Kabul mayor, Kabul Garrison chief, and Kabul police chief informed regarding the launch of the campaign during a press...

25 killed, over 100 wounded as back to back explosions hit Parachinar in Pakistan

At least twenty five people were killed and over one hundred others were wounded in back to back explosions in Kurram Agency in the tribal areas of Pakistan. The twin explosions ripped through a local market in Parachinar city earlier this evening and hours after a deadly suicide car bomb attack left...

Quds Day marks a global awakening leading to Palestine's liberation

Palestine is holding strong, and the world is changing. This year’s International Quds Day has a new global context. The people of the world are peace-loving in their great majority, and the people of the world are seeing more clearly, than ever before, the true face of the USA.   By...

Thousands attend slain Muslim teen Nabra Hassanen�s funeral in US

Thousands of mourners left their cars as traffic overflowed and walked more than a mile to reach Wednesday’s funeral of a 17-year-old Muslim girl whose beating death. Thousands of mourners left their cars as traffic overflowed and walked more than a mile to reach Wednesday’s funeral...

Cornered ISIS Terrorists Destroy Historic Al Nuri Mosque in Mosul

Cornered ISIS Takfiri terrorists have blown up Mosul’s historic Grand al-Nuri Mosque, where the terrorist group’s ringleader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi announced the formation of a so-called caliphate after capturing the northern city in 2014. The blasts occurred as Iraq's elite Counter...

In what Areas Trump Policies are Different from Obama�s?

During the election campaign speeches, Donald Trump widely criticized the domestic and foreign policies of the former president Barack Obama. The criticism was so bitter that when he assumed the office in early January this year, the world expected to see from the new American leader a different...

Iran�s Anti-ISIS Missile Strikes Send Clear Message to Terrorists, Their Patrons

The Sunday night missile attacks on the ISIS terrorist group's positions in Syria's Deir ez-Zor by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were not simply a retaliation to the June 7 terrorist attacks in Tehran by the terrorist group that targeted the Iranian parliament and the shrine...

US House speaker supports swift action on Iran, Russia sanctions

US House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, a close friend of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has said he supports lawmakers’ efforts to impose new sanctions on Iran and Russia. A bill aimed at imposing more sanctions on Iran and Russia was passed nearly unanimously...

Trump says he has no secret tapes of ex-FBI director James Comey

US President Donald Trump says he does not have recordings of his conversations with former FBI Director James Comey, amid speculation that he taped their conversations.  “I did not make, and do not have, any such recordings,” Trump tweeted on Thursday. However, the Republican...

Emergency food will run out in drought-hit Ethiopia by next month, warn aid agencies

International aid agencies have warned that Ethiopia will run out of emergency food aid by next month for nearly eight million people hit by severe drought. The agencies said on Thursday that the drought had already forced 7.8 million people across Ethiopia to rely on emergency food handouts...

UK govt. admits minimal fire safety standards for Grenfell Tower

The British government has admitted that hundreds of buildings in England have cladding similar to the Grenfell Tower block that was engulfed by a deadly blaze last week. A spokeswoman for Prime Minister Theresa May said that approximately 600 high rise buildings bear similar revetment, three of...

Daesh leader al-Baghdadi �highly likely� eliminated: Russian Foreign Ministry

Russia’s Foreign Ministry says it is “highly likely” that the leader of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group, Ibrahim al-Samarrai aka Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has been killed in an airstrike carried out by the Russian Air Force in Syria last month. “It is highly likely...

EU leaders to discuss refugees in key summit in Brussels

European Union leaders are set to hold a key summit in Brussels to discuss in more depth the body’s plans for dealing with refugees. Leaders are to meet on Thursday in a summit that has been described as an opportunity for the continental bloc to return to core values even as Britain launched...

India to overtake China as most populous country: UN

A UN report says the world population will reach 9.8 billion in 2050, with India overtaking China as the most populous country in the world. India is one of the countries with the highest population growths in the world and its population is set to overpass China's in 2024, according to the...

Iran starts much-awaited gas exports to Iraq

Iran says it has started a much-awaited project to export natural gas to its western neighbor - Iraq. The National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) announced that exports of around 7 million cubic meters per day (bcm/d) to Iraq's capital Baghdad had started from the late hours of Wednesday, June 21. NIGC...

ARG Accepts Need For Reforms On Back Of UNAMA Criticism

Briefing the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, the Secretary-General's Special Representative for Afghanistan, Tadamichi Yamamoto said the recent "security and political crisis was sparked by a terrorist bombing in Kabul's center on 31 May." He said that the security situation in...

Death Toll Rises to 34 in Lashkargah Bombing

At least 34 people were killed and nearly 60 others wounded in a car bomb in the provincial capital of Lashkargah on Thursday, health officials confirmed. The incident happened at about 12 noon local time, a spokesman for the provincial governor Omar Zwak said. Officials said a suicide bomber detonated...

UNAMA Welcomes Announcement Of Election Date

The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) on Thursday afternoon welcomed the Independent Election Commission's announcement that parliamentary and district council elections will take place on 7 July 2018. "The people of Afghanistan have made clear their desire for credible, inclusive elections,"...

Ghani Addresses First �Responsible Citizen Debate�

The first ARG-Responsible Citizen Debate was held at the presidential palace on Wednesday with the participation of high level government officials including President Ashraf Ghani and members of the public. The debate is aimed at further nourishing the pillars of democracy in the country. Addressing...