News Archive - 17 February 2023

At least one Israeli-owned vessel was attacked in the Arabian Sea on Feb. 10, a regional defense source said on Friday, a report by Reuters cited British maritime security company Ambrey Intelligence. The British company blamed Iran for the attacks. The source said drones were likely used and that there...

“The settlement of Paraskoviivka is completely under the control of Wagner PMC units. Despite the blockade of ammunition, despite heavy losses and bloody battles, the guys completely occupied the entire territory of Paraskoviivka,” Yevgeny Prigozhin said, quoted by his press service, according to the AFP. Paraskoviivka is a hamlet on...

"Calling for friendship and peace is the main element of the moral virtues of the mission of the Holy Prophet (PBUH)," the foreign minister of Iran said in a post on his Twitter account on Saturday to mark Eid al-Mab’ath, which coincides with Rajab 27, 1444 AH, is the occasion of...

Meanwhile, a security source reported that an ISIL chieftain was killed in armed clashes in the west of Al Anbar province. Iraqi security forces also carried out an operation against the terrorists in which 12 terrorists were killed in the north, west, and southwest of Baghdad, an Iraqi source announced...

A terrorist attack has been foiled in the Kaluga Region, where two people planned to use an improvised explosive device and incendiaries to set fire to tanks containing fuel and lubricants at a chemical facility, the statement included. The perpetrators had pledged allegiance to the ISIL international terrorist organization outlawed...

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According to the Palestinian Prisoners Club, the Palestinian was taken to the hospital after his health situation worsened, and after a while, his martyrdom was announced. The Palestinian martyr was from the town of Yata in the south of Al Khalil, who was detained by the Zionist regime in 2021 and...

President Raeisi also offered sympathy to the government and the nation of Tajikistan over the incident. A series of avalanches has killed 10 more people in eastern Tajikistan, the Central Asian nation's government said on Thursday, bringing the death toll over the past two days to 20 and forcing hundreds of...

Stressing that the Turkey-Syria earthquake is a big test for other countries and the world community, Hojjatoleslam Mohammad Javad Haj Ali-Akbari stated that the world community has awfully failed this test.  What happened in Syria is a shame for the international community, Haj Ali-Akbari said, adding that the approach of...

In a series of tweets on Thursday, Mehdi Hosseini Matin rejected the comments, made by two UK parliamentarians, Stephen Crabb and Steve McCabe, who are chairmen of Friends of Israel parliamentary groups in the Conservative and Labour parties, respectively. Titled “Iranian terror is a clear and present danger to the...

Iran's aid convoy carries 11 tons of food that will be distributed among the quake-stricken Syrian people. Iran was among the first countries that announced its readiness to assist Syria in the deadly quake incident. The death toll from the earthquake that has devastated parts of Turkey and Syria exceeded...

The bomb exploded in the path of two armored vehicles belonging to the forces of the Southern Transitional Council affiliated with the United Arab Emirates in the east of Mudiyah village, according to the reports. The injured were transferred to a hospital for treatment, the sources added. Meanwhile, local sources...

North Korea had "refrained from any special military action" this year except for regular activities, but the allies' scheduled drills would create a "grave vortex of escalating tension," the ministry said. "If it is the US option to show its muscle and counter everything with muscle, the same is true...

"Everything that is being put on board of another vessel now will be ground down. All those Leopard [tanks] <…> will be plunged by our fire in Ukraine," he told Russian media. According to TASS, the Russia Deputy Minister also criticized the West’s policy regarding arms supplies to Kyiv, blasting...

The army and intelligence services, in cooperation with international partners, carried out a military operation in southern Somalia, in which 200 al-Shabaab terrorists were killed, Somalia's information minister in a press conference. Saying that several of the killed terrorists were field commanders, the minister added that 300 weapons were also seized...

The latest state of the sanctions removal talks was the main topic conferred between Amir-Abdollahian and Albusaidi.  The JCPOA was signed in 2015 between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany. Former US President Donald Trump illegally pulled out of the deal in 2018 while...

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian held a meeting with the Head of the International Liaison Department of the Chinese Communist Party Liu Jianchao in Beijing on Wednesday. During the meeting, Amir-Abdollahian considered the fruitful consultations and agreements made between the presidents of the two countries in Beijing as drawing a...

The Fajr Music Festival will take place in Tehran and 16 provinces from February 17 to 22. The festival is another part of the Ten-Day Dawn celebration, which is organized every year to mark the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution.