Iraq

TEHRAN: Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Seyyed Abbas Araghchi is to make a trip to Kabul on Wednesday evening to discuss the comprehensive document on Iran and Afghanistan cooperation with the Afghan officials. Leading a political, security, and economic delegation, Araghchi will meet with senior Afghan officials and will …

TEHRAN: Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), also known as Hashd al-Sha’abi forces destroyed 10 ISIL hide-outs and bases in Diyala Governorate, eastern Iraq. Hashd al-Sha’abi forces, backed by the Iraqi Air Force, destroyed ISIL bases in Diyala, east of Iraq, said the Head of the security committee at Diyala governor-general’s office Sadeq al-Hosseini …

A security official for Iraq’s Kataib Hezbollah has reiterated the resistance group’s readiness to end the US military presence in Iraq. Abu Ali al-Askari stressed that the Americans must know that Iraq’s decision on the withdrawal of US troops is “irreversible” and that no one can circumvent the will of …

With the second round of US-Iraq strategic dialogue scheduled for later this month, commander of Hezbollah articulated the group’s readiness to continue fighting US troops in Iraq.   Abu Ali al-Askari, senior Hezbollah commander, tweeted on Sunday that the group is prepared to continue their armed resistance to the continued …

TEHRAN:  Iraqi lawmaker Hassan Salem has called for issuing an international arrest warrant for US President Donald Trump over his order to assassinate Lieutenant General Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. The Iraqi government should adopt necessary measures for obtaining an arrest warrant for Trump and keeping silent on the issue …

TEHRAN: A senior Iranian medical official said that the country is through with the laboratorial phase of coronavirus vaccine. Chancellor of Iran University of Medical Sciences Jalil Kouhpayeh Zadeh said that the initial laboratory phase of the coronavirus vaccine has been performed and its human test and injection will be …

TEHRAN: Hashd al-Sha’abi (Iraqi popular) forces in Mosul detained a number of ISIL terrorists who planned to attack the Northern Iraqi city. In a statement on Wednesday night, Iraq’s Hashd al-Sha’abi said that its intelligence forces in collaboration with the special forces, managed to detect and arrest a six-member terrorist team in …

The Iraqi Foreign Ministry stated on Thursday, the fact that there is no coordination between Iraq and Turkey regarding military operations against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), announcing Iraq’s options to respond to the Turkish bombing if it continues. The official spokesman for the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ahmed …

TEHRAN:A senior Iranian health ministry official announced that the country has so far distributed over 1mln coronavirus test kits among the universities of medical sciences. “More than 1mln coronavirus kits have been sent for the medical sciences universities and Pasteur Institute so far,” Mehdi Yousefi said on Tuesday. He said …

An Iraqi legislator warns that the United States is fomenting a soft coup against Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), better known by the Arabic word Hashd al-Sha’abi, stating Washington is trying to constrain the role of the anti-terror forces. Speaking in an exclusive interview with the Arabic-language al-Maalomah news agency on …