Iran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Reza Najafi, on Saturday voiced his objection to the United States Senate's demand to be briefed about the contents of the recently signed roadmap of cooperation between Tehran and the IAEA, reports the semi-official Fars news agency. Najafi warned the UN nuclear watchdog to avoid disclosing
Turkey has killed 260 Kurdish militants in a week-long air offensive on targets in northern Iraq, official media claimed Saturday, as regional Iraqi authorities said it was time the rebels pulled out with concerns growing over civilian casualties. Ankara has launched a two-pronged "anti-terror" offensive against Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists in Syria and Kurdistan
The Sinai branch of Islamic State (ISIS), Sinai Province, announced on Wednesday that it has executed Croatian citizen Tomislav Salopek, who it captured on July 22 in Cairo. This marks the first execution of a Western hostage by Sinai Province, with the ruthless murder taking place in the Sinai Peninsula. Sinai Province last
Just half-a-month after the Iran nuclear deal was signed in Vienna on July 14, the Islamic republic of Iran announced on Thursday that it plans to build two new nuclear facilities in its southeastern Makran region on the Indian Ocean. Mohammad Ahmadian, Deputy Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), announced the
Hamas continues to incite young people to violence and jihad against Israel. On Tuesday, the group concluded a course entitled “Al-Quds Army for Girls”, which trains young female Hamas activists on basic combat skills and assistance to fighters. Rajaa al-Halabi, who heads the Hamas women's movement, said at the closing ceremony of the
A truck bomb ripped through a market in a Shiite-majority area of north Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 38 people, security and medical officials said, according to AFP. The early morning blast in a wholesale vegetable market in the Sadr City area, one of the deadliest single attacks to hit the Iraqi capital
For the first time senior sources in the Afghan government confirmed Wednesday that Mullah Mohammed Omar, head of the Afghan Taliban, is dead and has been for the last two to three years. Afghan government and intelligence sources said Omar had died, without giving further details; a Taliban spokesperson told the BBC that the
Al-Qaeda and other rebels led a major offensive Tuesday in northwest Syria, pushing back government troops in an area bordering President Bashar Al-Assad's coastal heartland, a monitoring group said, according to AFP. Since Monday night, the Army of Conquest alliance has seized a number of positions from the Syrian army in Sahl al-Ghab, a
Analysts have revealed that the US is preparing to lift sanctions on Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's secret network of organizations worth over $95 billion as part of the Iran nuclear deal. Khamenei - who just this Sunday tweeted an image of US President Barack Obama shooting himself in the head and who
Damning evidence was found when US special forces killed Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abu Sayyaf in May, revealing that NATO-member Turkey has in fact been collaborating with the brutal jihadists. The British Guardian reported on Sunday that when Abu Sayyaf's compound was raided in eastern Syria, it was discovered that Turkey is the main
