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Officials have blamed a suicide bombing that killed 100 people inside a mosque at a police and government compound in northwest Pakistan on a “security lapse.” The blast, which ripped through a mosque inside a major police facility in the city of Peshawar, was one of the deadliest attacks on …

Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani on Tuesday said that his government’s program includes “clear-cut and serious” solutions for the currency crisis in the country. Al-Sudani’s remarks came during a meeting with the head of al-Wataniya Coalition, Ayad Allawi, in Baghdad earlier today. According to a readout by his bureau, …

Iraq’s military has established a security cordon around dozens of villages inside a “hot territory” in Diyala, a commander of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces-PMF) revealed on Tuesday. Authorities in Iraq use the term “hot territory” to imply that the area in question is infested by terrorist groups. “Forces from …

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met his counterpart in Seoul on Tuesday, pledging to beef up joint drills and security cooperation as South Korea seeks nuclear reassurances in the face of growing North Korean threats. Seoul is eager to convince its increasingly nervous public of America’s so-called extended deterrence commitments, …

Ukraine will receive 120 to 140 tanks in a “first wave” of deliveries from a coalition of 12 countries, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Tuesday. Kyiv secured pledges from the West this month to supply main battle tanks to help fend off Russia’s full-scale invasion, with Moscow mounting huge …

Any military action against Iran by Washington would be considered as the initiation of broader hostilities, diplomats told Newsweek Iranian diplomats have warned that American military action against their country would risk starting an open war, according to Newsweek. There has been speculation surrounding Washington’s possible involvement in a recent …

The average price of gasoline in Iraq reached 5.14 U.S. dollars per liter. In its report for January 2023, Global Petrol Prices said that Iraq ranked 12th among countries with the cheapest gasoline prices (514 cents per liter) and fifth among Arab countries, preceded by Libya, Syria, Algeria, and Kuwait. …

Japan and the Netherlands have reportedly bowed to pressure from Washington on tighter supply controls for microchips The United States has agreed a deal with Japan and the Netherlands to restrict China’s access to materials used to make advanced computer chips, the Associated Press reported on Monday, citing sources. According …

A powerful bomb explosion at a busy mosque in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar has killed at least 33 people and wounded 150, according to officials. A hospital official said many of the casualties were police officers who had gathered in the mosque for afternoon prayers. The mosque is located …

Iraqi Foreign Minister Fouad Hussein says Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman has urged senior Iraqi authorities to arrange a face-to-face meeting between the top diplomats of Riyadh and Tehran, amid a diplomatic process between the two neighbors aimed at mending strained ties. Hussein told Iraq’s Kurdish-language Rudaw television …

Comments by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that his country may ratify Finland’s bid to join NATO present a “positive sign,” the Nordic nation’s foreign minister said. Speaking at a news conference on Monday, Finland’s Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto chose to remain upbeat, saying that talk about ratifications “is a …

The Kremlin said on Monday that former British prime minister Boris Johnson was lying when he said President Vladimir Putin had threatened him with a missile strike during a phone call in the run-up to the invasion of Ukraine. Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters that what Johnson said was …

Ex-US President Donald Trump thinks that incumbent leader Joe Biden has brought the world to the brink of a third world war. “Joe Biden has brought us to the brink of World War Three. We’re at the brink of World War Three, just in case anybody doesn’t know it,” he …

Two US police officers who were involved in the brutal killing of a Black man have been suspended following mass protests against police brutality in the country. The officers belonging to Shelby County, Tennessee, who responded to the scene of Tyre Nichols’s deadly arrest, were “relieved of duty,” Shelby County …

Tens of thousands of protesters have held a massive rally again in Tel Aviv in the Occupied Territories against Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned judicial reforms, which they say aim to weaken the regime’s Supreme Court in favor of the Israeli prime minister and his extremist cabinet. According to Press TV, the …

The leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement has severely censured the desecration of the holy Qur’an by a far-right Swedish-Danish politician in Stockholm and Copenhagen, terming the sacrilegious move as a declaration of war against the Muslim world. Addressing a ceremony in the Yemeni capital city of Sana’a on Friday …

The Prime Minister, Muhammad Al-Sudani, stressed the importance of exchanging experiences with Morocco in the file of combating extremism and terrorism. According to a statement by his media office, Al-Sudani received, today, Saturday, Morocco’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and African Cooperation, Nasser Bourita, and his accompanying delegation. The Moroccan minister …

The head of al-Fatah Alliance, Hadi Al-Amiri, condemned the Israeli aggressive actions against the Palestinian people. Al-Amiri said in a statement, “We express our strong condemnation of the aggressive actions that the Zionist occupation authorities have been committing against the brotherly Palestinian people,” stressing that “the Zionist entity and its …

The European Commission says Ukraine has the unconditional support of the European Union in the war with Russia. Speaking at an event in Germany on Saturday, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Kiev needed to defend European values. “We stand by Ukraine’s side without any ifs and buts.” According to …

The release of a graphic video clip showing five police officers in early January beating to death an African-American man in the US city of Memphis, Tennessee, has prompted widespread protests in several major cities across the country. The rallies broke out late Friday shortly after the release of police …