West Asia

Yemeni army troops, backed by allied fighters from Popular Committees, have fired a domestically-manufactured ballistic missile at a military base in Saudi Arabia’s southern border region of Najran in retaliation for the Riyadh regime’s devastating military campaign against their impoverished country.

Russia and China have reiterated that they will continue their commitment to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and will maintain their cooperation and relations with Iran in the face of new US sanctions.

Yemeni people took to the streets of the capital Sana'a to condemn an ongoing war led by Saudi Arabia and its allies against their country. The demonstrators also expressed anger at the current economic crisis which the war has created in their country.

Israeli forces have shot and killed a young Palestinian man in the central part of the West Bank as tensions continue in the occupied Palestinian territories following US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem al-Quds as Israel’s capital and relocate the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to the occupied city.

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has reacted strongly to a recent approval by Israeli authorities to build 20,000 new settler units in the occupied holy city of Jerusalem al-Quds.

A leading human rights group has accused Israel of ignoring and covering up criminal activity in its investigations after the Tel Aviv regime clears its troops of any wrongdoing in an attack that claimed the lives of scores of Palestinians during the devastating 2014 Gaza war.

Nearly 50 people have been killed in a bomb attack in front of an educational center in a mainly Shia Muslim area of western Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan.

Israeli forces arrest another Palestinian journalist in the occupied West Bank. The reason behind the arrest is still unknown but Palestinians say the move is likely aimed at silencing the journalists who report Israeli crimes.

Secretary General of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, says the US and Israel are too weak to a wage new war like their previous wars.

The Russian military forces have intercepted and targeted five unmanned aerial vehicles as they were flying in the skies near its strategic Hmeimim airbase in Syria's western coastal province of Latakia.

The UN has said that there is no justification for Saudi Arabia's latest massacre in Yemen which claimed the lives of scores of civilians, mostly of whom were children.

While Iranian naval forces trained for an operation to potentially shut down the strategic Strait of Hormuz last week, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps tested a ballistic missile over the strait, according US spy satellites.

Amnesty international says that the US-led coalition's admission to killing scores of civilians during its operations is just the tip of the iceberg.

Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement has unilaterally suspended its retaliatory attacks in the Red Sea, from where Saudi-led warships have been targeting the war-torn state, especially its strategic port city of Hudaydah.

Iran, Russia and Turkey, as guarantor states for a peace process in Syria, have expressed their firm determination to counter any plot aimed at partitioning the Arab country.

The US-led coalition has claimed that it impossible to avoid civilian causalities in its airstrikes supposedly targeting terrorists in Syria and Iraq.

An Israeli court has sentenced a Palestinian poet to five months in prison for posting a poem on her social media accounts in support of resistance against the occupying regime.

Russia’s ambassador to Israel has highlighted Iran’s crucial role in counter-terrorism efforts in Syria, saying Tehran’s presence in the war-torn country is legal under international law and thus it cannot be forced out.

As tensions between Iran and the United States continue to heighten under America’s hawkish President Donald Trump, latest reports have indicated that Trump's administration has been quietly pushing ahead with a plan to create a NATO-like security and political alliance between Arab countries to confront Iran.

Syrian army troops have liberated yet another town in al-Yarmouk basin in the country’s southwestern province of Dara’a, further tightening the noose around the last remnants of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in the area.

Yemeni army forces, supported by allied fighters from Popular Committees, have killed four Saudi Soldiers after hitting two military bases in the kingdom’s southern provinces of Jizan and Najran with mortar shells.

Israeli military forces have reportedly arrested four correspondents from a Palestinian television channel affiliated to the Islamic resistance movement, Hamas, as they carried out overnight search and detention operations across the occupied West Bank.

The spokesman for Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement has dismissed the recent belligerent remarks by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Mohammed Gargash, saying the Abu Dhabi regime is too feeble to fight in a battle against the residents of a single village in Yemen let alone the entire Yemeni nation.

Reform of the Syrian constitution was top of the agenda during the first day of the tenth round of Syrian talks in Sochi on Monday according to Russian Special Envoy for Syria Alexander Lavrentiev.

Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said the US hostile measures against Iran have quashed any possibility of talks between Tehran and Washington, adding that US is revealing its untrustworthy nature day by day.

The United Nations has warned that Yemen's Hudaydah is just “one airstrike away from an unstoppable epidemic.”

Syria’s army and its allies are advancing against a remaining Daesh pocket in the southwestern Dara’a and Sweida provinces amid Israeli reconnaissance aircraft reported loitering near the operation theater.

Yemeni army forces, supported by allied fighters from Popular Committees, have fired a domestically-designed short-range ballistic missile at a position of Saudi-backed militiamen loyal to resigned president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi in the country’s central province of al-Bayda.

The Israeli navy has intercepted a Norwegian-flagged ship with activists on board as it was approaching the shores of the besieged Gaza Strip to deliver humanitarian relief to the inhabitants of the impoverished enclave.

A Saudi student who won an international chemistry tournament has made an interesting move by refusing to stand next to a representative of the Israeli regime.

The White Helmets group which consists of 800 members is no longer supported by their terrorist backed groups, all of them no longer supported by US due to US – Russia agreement, the US is now discussing with Russia on their exit from Syria.

An international flotilla, meant to draw the world's attention to the suffering of Palestinians under an inhumane Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip, is nearing the coastal enclave's waters.

Israel has targeted a Syrian military site in the Aleppo countryside in a missile attack causing structural damage.

Syrian military air defenses have repelled an Israeli attack on the country's Quneitra province, Syrian state media report.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Transportation Minister Israel Katz have agreed to promote a rail link with Saudi Arabia, Israeli media reports say.

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner met with Jordan’s King Abdullah on Tuesday regarding the humanitarian situation in Gaza, Reuters reports.

Voting has begun in Lebanon's first parliamentary election in nine years, with over 500 candidates vying for 128 seats.

Hundreds of Thousands of Yemeni people gathered at the Bab al-Yemen square in the capital city Sanaa on Friday to participate in a mass rally under the slogan “Al-Quds (Jerusalem), the land of Muslims and their first Qibla”, in solidarity with the Palestinian people and in support of al-Quds.

A prominent host on Israel’s Army Radio said he was “ashamed” to be an Israeli citizen after the killing of 18 Palestinians by Israeli gunfire near border with the Gaza Strip.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has refused to deploy British troops to military action against Syria without further investigations on Saturday's chemical attack in Douma.

Russia and Syria say Israeli warplanes struck an air base in the Syrian province of Homs and that Syrian air defense systems shot down five of eight missiles fired.

Palestinian protesters are gathering at Gaza’s fence for what is expected to be the largest anti-occupation rally since last Friday, when the Israeli military shot and killed 20 unarmed demonstrators.

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Syrian people have shattered the myth of invincibility of the Israeli regime through their resistance against Tel Aviv’s acts of aggression during past years.

Yemen’s Ansarullah fighters have targeted a Saudi Arabian warship in retaliation to deadly airstrikes on the improvised country's province of Hudaydah.

The largest convoy of evacuated militants and their families has departed Syria’s Eastern Ghouta as the Syrian army presses ahead with a counterterrorism operation in the suburban area near Damascus.

Bahraini forces have reportedly arrested at least 32 people during separate raids on a number of houses across the kingdom in the past 24 hours as the ruling Al Khalifah regime intensifies its heavy-handed crackdown on political dissidents.

Palestinian media outlets released an image of Iran’s Qods Force commander General Ghassem Soleimani' visiting Lebanon’s Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the United States is complicit in Saudi war crimes in Yemen amid Washington's baseless claim that Tehran is providing supply of ballistic missiles to Yemen's Houthi Ansarullah movement.

Israeli daily Marriv says a phone call by the Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani with the commanders of the Palestinian resistance actually served as a green light by Iran to Hamas and Islamic Jihad for launching anti0-Israeli assaults.

A former adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Saudi Arabia is ready to sacrifice Palestinians and their demands for closer ties with Israel.

The secretary general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement says despite the US claims about fighting terrorism, it spared no effort to help Daesh forces in the Syrian town of al-Bukamal.

Jordanian officials are concerned that Saudi Arabia’s plan to normalize ties with Israel could endanger the stability of Jordan, a senior official close to the Royal Court in Amman says.

A Lebanese newspaper has published a secret undated letter from Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that puts forward a plan to normalize ties with Israel despite “risks” of a public backlash.

The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) has reaffirmed support for the full membership of the state of Palestine in the United Nations, saying the oppressed Palestinian nation should be given its rightful place in the world community.

Normalization between the UAE and Israel is ongoing via secret and public channels and through the Emirati Ambassador to Washington, Yousef Al-Otaiba

Erdogan has threatened Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region with sanctions in case it goes ahead with plans to hold an independence referendum.

At time when Iraq is going to experience a post-ISIS period and the terror group is no its last legs in Syria, a new mission has been devised for Kurdish leader, Mesut Barzani.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voices support for the formation of a Kurdish state in the lead-up to a planned independence referendum in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, which has sparked strong criticisms from the central government as well as Iraq’s neighbors.

Famous Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan has been interrogated in London over suspicions of bribing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Zionist daily Haaretz admits that Israel is a major supplier of weapons and training to Junta in Myanmar who have engaged in a massive massacre against Muslims in Myanmar.