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US terrorist forces behind regional insecurity: Iran’s Shamkhani
Jan 13, 2020 10:16Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani highlighted the US administration’s role in recent tensions and conflicts in West Asia and said insecurity will not end as long as the “terrorist forces” of the US are present in the region.
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Iran’s government denies spreading misinformation on plane crash
Jan 13, 2020 09:51The Iranian government has denied spreading misinformation following the crash of a Ukrainian passenger plane near Tehran last week.
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Volley of rockets hit Iraqi airbase hosting US forces, wound several local troops: Iraq’s military
Jan 13, 2020 09:40A rocket barrage has hit an Iraqi airbase hosting US forces north of the capital Baghdad, Iraq’s military says.
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Nasrallah: Iran missile strikes showed all US bases in West Asia within range
Jan 12, 2020 15:30Iran's precision missile strikes at US military bases in Iraq sent the message that all American targets in West Asia are within the range of Iranian missiles, says the secretary general of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah.
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US threatens to cut off Iraq's access to oil account in New York if troops expelled: Paper
Jan 12, 2020 04:59Iraqi officials say the administration of US President Donald Trump has threatened to shut off Iraq's access to a key central banking account if Baghdad expels American troops from the Arab country.
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KRG supports Baghdad’s decision on US troop pullout from Iraq
Jan 12, 2020 04:06The President of Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, Nechirvan Barzani, says the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) supports a decision made by the central government in Baghdad concerning the withdrawal of US military forces from the country.
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Iraq's PMU commanders hold summit over US assassinations
Jan 11, 2020 09:58Operation commanders of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units have convened to examine recent developments in the country, specifically US assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and the Iraqi deputy PMU head Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.
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Martyred Soleimani established security in the region: Friday Prayer Leader
Jan 10, 2020 14:49Tehran's Interim Friday Prayer Leader said that Lieutenant-General Qasem Soleimani cleared the region from Daesh terrorists, enhanced the West Asia's security, and spread the culture of resistance throughout the region.
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Bangladeshis denounce US for assassinating Iran’s Soleimani
Jan 10, 2020 12:58People in Bangladesh have protested the United States’ assassination of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani.
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Iraq wants US to set up mechanism for withdrawal of troops
Jan 10, 2020 10:38Iraq’s caretaker Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi has called on the United States to dispatch a delegation to Baghdad tasked with formulating a mechanism for the withdrawal of US troops from the country in the wake of the assassination of Iran's Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the second-in-command of Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMU).