News Archive - 21 April 2022

The series of anti-terrorist actions of the Iraqi army continues in different parts of the country, Al Forat News says. One of the commanders of the PMU in Diyala announced the beginning of a large-scale operation in different parts of the province, as well as some parts of other Iraqi provinces of...

“We continue to exchange messages with Americans through the European Union. In doing so, we have reiterated time and again that the Islamic Republic of Iran doesn’t care for excessive demands [put forth by the US], nor will it back down on its red lines,” said Amir-Abdollahian in a...

The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that it had summoned the ambassadors of Latvia and Estonia, along with Lithuania's charge d'affaires, handing them notes of protest in connection with the "unfriendly actions" of these countries. "On April 21, Ambassador of Latvia [Maris] Riekstins, Ambassador of Estonia [Margus] Laidre...

According to the representative of the Austrian company, at OMV's refineries in the Austrian town of Schwechat and the German town of Burghausen the share of Russian crude oil has always been quite small. "In March, we replaced these volumes with other crude oil from the market. Currently, we...

ISIL issued a statement stressing that the bombing targeted a group of Christians. Usman Abdullahi, the police spokesman for Taraba, said the blast in the rural Iware community occurred on Tuesday at a drinking spot in a section of a busy market, leaving 30 dead and more than a...

"Given our capabilities, we have the opportunity to be effective in all of the world's aquatic environments," said Rear Admiral Shahram Irani. Noting that Iran has an active defense and naval diplomacy, he cited that the country plans on having an effective presence to deal with threats, as well as to...

Referred to increasing reports on the repeated bomb attacks in various cities of Afghanistan, Khatibzadeh expressed Iran’s concern over the sharp rise in the number of such “bitter incidents.” Noting that the latest bomb attacks in Afghanistan took place in the holy fasting month of Ramadan when mosques are more crowded...

Three vehicles were also seized at the exit axis of the Deylam city in Bushehr towards Khuzestan province, Colonel Sousani said. The smugglers were handed over to the judicial authority after filing a case, he added. Iran is on the frontline of the fight against drug trafficking and thousands of Iranian...

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"We are against unilateral sanctions and are not planning to pursue the policy aimed at the formation of blocks and confrontation escalation," he said in a video address at the ceremony of opening of the main part of the Boao Forum for Asia in the Hainan Province of China.

"We will sustain and increase our coordinated pressure for as long as necessary and continue to urge other countries to support our efforts," the document said, according to the TASS news agency.  Heads of G7 finance ministries and central banks also noted that G7 together with partners across...

The Interior Ministry of the Taliban interim government said in a statement on Thursday that two children were injured in an explosion in the fifth security district of Kabul. According to the ministry, the explosion was caused by a roadside bomb. Kabul police spokesman, Khalid Zadran, said in a tweet the...

Local media in Afghanistan a few minutes ago reported that another explosion took place at the Mahdia Mosque in Mazar-i-Sharif. The number of casualties has not been released yet.  31 killed, 87 injured in largest Shia mosque explosion in Mazar-i-Sharif The explosion killed at least 31 people and injured...

French President Emmanuel Macron tore into his far-right challenger Marine Le Pen about her links with Russia and her plan to ban Muslim women from wearing the hijab in public in a fractious television debate ahead of Sunday’s second and final vote for the presidency, AlJazeera reported.  The only...

"There are reports about an explosion in front of the branch of the Turkish Youth Foundation in the Gaziosmanpasa district on Hurriyet Mahallesi Street at about 06:00 today [03:00 a.m. GMT]. According to the first statements made by our security service on-site, the glass in the building was...

However, more than 2,000 Ukrainian “militants” still remain entrenched at the Azovstal steel plant in the city, Shoigu added, according to RT. When Mariupol was encircled in early March, some 8,100 Ukrainian soldiers, foreign mercenaries, and nationalist militants, including members of the notorious Azov Battalion, remained inside, according to the minister’s...

Venezuela is ready for such a pace of development, the country’s President told the Venezolana de Television TV channel. "We are ready, so to say, to face the boomerang effect on the western and global economy due to wrong sanctions against the Russian economy. Sanctions are absurd, but the...

No tsunami threat was immediately reported following the earthquake, which had a preliminary magnitude of 6.7. It hit at 1:42 am local time (07:42 GMT) on Thursday at a depth of 25.3km (15.7 miles), with the epicentre about 61km (38 miles) from the coastal region of...

“Such a statement (about the potential bombing of the Crimean Bridge) is nothing but an announcement of a possible terrorist act, this is unacceptable,” Peskov emphasized, according to Sputnik. He told reporters on Thursday that “all the necessary security measures and precautions by the relevant service are being taken around the bridge and...

Russia’s Defense Ministry announced on Wednesday that the Sarmat missile, a long-awaited addition to the country’s nuclear arsenal, was fired for the first time from a silo launcher in Plesetsk State in the country’s northwest Arkhangelsk region at 1512 Moscow time (1212 GMT). According to the ministry, the missile’s...

In a televised interview with CNN Turk, Mevlut Cavusoglu said Turkiye did not think that the Ukraine war would last that long after the peace talks in Istanbul. "But following the NATO foreign ministers' meeting, it was the impression that...there are those within the NATO member states that...

Arab media on early Thursday reported that Zionist fighterjets have entered the skies of the Gaza Strip and the sound of an explosion has been heard in the area. Second later, Hebrew news sources announced that the Israeli regime's army launched an attack on Gaza Strip. Quds TV channel...

The mausoleum of Saadi Shirazi commonly known as Saadie is located in Shiraz, Fars Province. He was buried at the end of his life at a Khanqah at the current location. Every year, a number of literati and scholars from around the world gather at the mausoleum on April...

The Qadr Night or Laylat al-Qadr, variously rendered in English as the Night of Decree, Night of Power, Night of Destiny, commemorates the night on which God first revealed the Quran to the Prophet Muhammad.