Kurdish forces in Syria announced the suspension of operations against the Islamic State (IS) group, as Syrian and Russian troops provided support against the Turkish invasion by entering the key border town of Kobane. The head of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Mazloum Abdi, said on Wednesday that the …

ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he would not meet with US Vice President Mike Pence and State Secretary Mike Pompeo during their visit to Ankara to discuss a ground offensive by his country’s military forces and allied militants against Kurdish forces in the northern part of Syria. “I …

WASHINGTON: Turkey’s offensive against Kurds in northern Syria is “not our problem,” says US President Donald Trump as pressure mounts on his administration over abandoning of the formerly US-backed forces in the region. “If Turkey goes into Syria, it is between Turkey and Syria. It’s not our problem,” Trump told …

TEHRAN: Iranian Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi categorically dismissed a report by the Reuters news agency citing a successful US cyber attack on Iranian facilities and infrastructures. When asked by reporters about the Reuters’ claims on the sidelines of a cabinet meeting in Tehran on …

By: Ali Shamkhani 1. Three clear remarks by senior US officials in the past two months reveal some truths which the country’s governing body previously lacked the courage to accept and express. 2. After Yemeni Ansarullah’s drone attack on Aramco oil facilities in Saudi Arabia and in response to Saudi …

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has interrogated three officers of the University of Balochistan in connection with a case regarding alleged harassment and blackmail of students at the campus, officials said on Monday. The case had come to light about a month ago when the Balochistan High Court (BHC) …

TEHRAN: At least 11 civilians have been killed and dozens more injured in a Turkish airstrike on a civilian convoy in the Northeastern Syrian town of Ras al-Ain, reports said on Monday. “11 civilians, including a journalist, lost their lives and 74, including several journalists, were injured,” the Kurdish Red …

TEHRAN: Mr. Imran Khan, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, and his entourage met with Ayatollah Khamenei—the Leader of the Islamic Revolution— this afternoon October 13, 2019. The following are the excerpts of the statements his eminence made at this meeting: “The Islamic Republic of Iran has proposed a four-article plan …

TEHRAN: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani underlined that his country has managed to overcome all plots hatched by the US, Israel and the reactionary regimes in the region to severely harm the Islamic Republic. “We can declare firmly that the plots of the US, Zionism and the reactionaries in the region …