At least two civilians were killed and as many were injured as the Bashar al-Assad regime forces attacked Syria’s Idlib, civil defense sources said on Saturday, reports Anadolu Agency. The Syrian army, stationed in the Saraqib district of Idlib, along with Iran-backed foreign terrorist groups launched an attack on the village of Sarmin using ground-to-ground weapons.

Iran has greeted Saudi Arabia on the kingdom’s National Day amid a rapprochement between the two regional rivals, Anadolu reports. In separate letters to Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi extended his felicitations to the Arab country, his office said. The Iranian Embassy in the Saudi

Turkish Defence Minister Yasar Guler stressed the need for the Bashar Al-Assad regime to meet several requirements before Turkish forces withdraw from northern Syria. The requirements include the establishment of a new constitution and the holding of democratic elections, in addition to the formation of a government that represents all Syrian sects. In an exclusive

Iranian Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and his Djiboutian counterpart, Mahamoud Ali Youssouf, on the sidelines of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly in New York, on 22 September, 2023 [Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs] Iran, on Friday, announced the resumption of diplomatic relations with Djibouti after a seven-year hiatus caused by the East

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince, Mohammed Bin Salman, has warned that the Kingdom will be forced to acquire a nuclear weapon if Iran manages to do so, raising concerns of renewed rivalry in the region after a thaw in the two countries’ diplomatic relations. In an interview with Fox News yesterday, Bin Salman was asked about

Normalisation of relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel will be a “betrayal” of the Palestinian cause, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Wednesday. Raisi made his comment during a press conference on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. When asked about normalisation between Saudi Arabia and the occupation state, the Iranian

Qatar wants to capitalise on a US-Iranian detainee deal that it mediated during months of delicate diplomacy to find common ground on a more intractable issue between the two hardened adversaries: the dispute over Iran’s nuclear programme. Russia’s war in Ukraine may have top billing at the UN General Assembly, but Iran’s nuclear ambitions cast a shadow

Faiq Zidan, the head of the Supreme Judicial Council in Iraq, emphasised the importance of respecting and implementing agreements and treaties between Baghdad and Kuwait. During a meeting with Kuwaiti Ambassador Tareq Al-Faraj in Baghdad yesterday, Zidan highlighted Iraq’s respect for the State of Kuwait, historically, presently and in the future. The independence of Kuwait

The Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, was escorted out of the General Assembly Hall this week in protest at the speech of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi. During the session, Erdan held up a picture of Mahsa Amini, the young Iranian woman killed in police custody a year ago. Immediately after he left the

The Iraqi government said, Tuesday, it had disarmed and relocated armed groups opposed to Iran from northern Iraq’s Kurdish region, Anadolu Agency reports. In a statement, Iraq’s Higher Committee said the offices of the anti-Iran groups were evacuated and that they were disarmed and relocated to areas away from the border. It said the move