Martin Griffiths: Holding onto hope
Madaresharghi , Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths on the occasion of World Humanitarian Day stressed that even in the depths of despair and division, there ...
Yemen stresses self-defense right as Saudi Arabia decries Aramco raid at UN
Yemen said its armed forces reserve the legitimate right to respond to any act of aggression by the Saudi-led military coalition, after Riyadh complained to the UN Security Council over ...
Syria’s veteran foreign minister Walid Moalem dies
Syria’s top diplomat and long-time foreign minister Walid al-Moalem, a staunch defender of Syrian President Bashar al Assad’s bloody crackdown on peaceful protesters that sparked a decade-old conflict, died on ...
Syrian president, Iranian official call refugees conference good basis for restoring security in war-hit country
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said an international conference on return of refugees, which will begin tomorrow in Damascus, could be a good basis for continuing humanitarian efforts and beginning of ...
End of arms embargo is “double-edged sword” for Iran; U.S Professor
“Several countries are not so much about concerns about what Iran will do with their products, but that those countries do not want to attract the wrath of the present ...
China, Russia, Saudi Arabia set to join UN Human Rights Council
China, Saudi Arabia and Russia are poised to join the United Nations Human Rights Council, raising alarms among rights groups, who say the countries are among the world’s “worst rights ...
British Museum to repatriate ancient tiles smuggled into UK in a suitcase
The British Museum is to help repatriate six glazed tiles from a medieval memorial complex on the edge of Samarkand, which were brought into Heathrow in a suitcase. The man ...
Iran increases its enriched uranium reserves monthly: IAEA boss
Iran does not at this stage have enough enriched uranium to make one nuclear bomb under the U.N. atomic watchdog’s official definition, the agency’s head told an Austrian paper. “The ...
Iran Releases Prominent Human Rights Activist Narges Mohammadi
Narges Mohammadi, a prominent human rights activist jailed for “acting against Iran’s national security” has been released from prison after 8.5 years. Her release came after her prison sentence was ...
Foreign intervention could turn Karabakh fighting into regional war: Rouhani
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani warns that any intervention by third countries could turn the armed clashes underway between the Republic of Azerbaijan and Armenia into a regional war, saying Tehran ...









