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South Korea and the United States fired eight missiles into the east sea of the Korean Peninsula in a tit-for-tat move after North Korea launched a series of short-range ballistic missiles, a report said. The ground-to-ground Army Tactical Missile System missiles were fired off South Korea’s east coast early on …

Armed assailants attacked a Catholic church in southwest Nigeria on Sunday with gunfire and explosives, leaving at least 50 people dead. According to Press TV, the unidentified gunmen targeted the St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State during a mass, lawmaker Ogunmolasuyi Oluwhole said, adding there were children and women among …

Shootings in three American cities killed nine people and wounded two dozen more on Saturday night and Sunday morning, the latest outbreaks of gun violence in the wake of three mass shootings that have rattled the United States. In Philadelphia, a confrontation between two men escalated into a gunfight that …

A former US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director, who had overseen a secret prison in Thailand, personally observed interrogation sessions in which inmates were being tortured. Gina Haspel personally observed interrogation sessions of a prisoner, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who is accused of orchestrating the bombing of the Navy destroyer Cole in 2000. Seventeen …

US police authorities say three people have lost their lives and 11 others were wounded after gunfire broke out on a popular street in the US state of Pennsylvania, only two days after another fatal shooting incident in Iowa state. Police Inspector D. F. Pace said that two men and a …

A senior Iranian official has urged the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency to refrain from pursuing any political agenda in his work, stating that the Islamic Republic is strongly opposed to an anti-Iran resolution at the IAEA Board of Governors. Speaking with the IRIB TV1 television channel, …

The Arab League has called on the UN Security Council to force Israel to end its occupation and withdraw all of its forces from the occupied Palestinian and Arab territories. In a statement released on Monday, the General Secretariat of the organization said that the 15-member council should assume its responsibilities and …

Lebanese caretaker Defense Minister Brigadier General Maurice Sleem has called upon the international community and the United Nations to “move quickly and put an end to the renewed Israeli provocations,” after a gas drilling ship arrived in disputed waters in the Mediterranean Sea to conduct hydrocarbon exploration for Israel. Sleem said Israel’s activities …

French President Emmanuel Macron has condemned the Tel Aviv regime’s insistence on illegal settlement construction and land expropriation policies in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, asserting that Paris supports the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people. During a telephone conversation with his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas, Macron expressed his concern in the face …

A high-ranking official with Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement says the United States is preventing the Arab country from offshore crude oil and natural gas exploration and production, stating that Beirut possesses the ability to tap its own energy resources to cover its domestic demands. “The US is the main opponent …

Iraqi security forces have captured more than a dozen Daesh terrorists, including a number of top commanders, hours after five civilians were killed and several others injured in an attack in the eastern Province of Diyala. The Iraqi National Intelligence Service (INIS) announced in a statement on Sunday that it had arrested 14 people responsible for planning …

The Yemen Petroleum Company (YPC) says the Saudi-led coalition has banned a Yemen-bound ship carrying tons of fuel from docking at Hudaydah Port in violation of a UN-brokered ceasefire agreement to end the siege and war on the impoverished country. Essam al-Mutawakel, a spokesman for the YPC, said in a …

Iraqi forces have shot down a drone that was hovering over a prison in the center of Iraq’s capital, Baghdad, reports say. According to Press TV, the drone was downed on Monday over al-Rasafa al-Tasfirat prison, in which notorious criminals are incarcerated. Iraqi media outlets cited a security source as …

Congressman Adam Schiff says US President Joe Biden should not visit Saudi Arabia or meet its Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), who was accused by American intelligence of ordering the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. A team of Saudi operatives murdered Khashoggi, a Washington Post journalist, in the Saudi consulate in …

Iraqi lawmakers on Thursday voted to approve a bill banning relations with ‘Israel’. In a statement, the Parliament’s media office said the assembly passed a bill “criminalizing the normalization of ties with the Zionist entity.” According to the state news agency INA, the bill was passed unanimously during Thursday’s session. …

A vast majority of Americans in a new poll support background checks on all gun sales, one day after the mass shooting at an elementary school in the US state of Texas.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says it is still possible for parties to the 2015 Iran deal to reach an agreement if the American side proves capable of making a realistic decision. Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks in a Thursday address to the World Economic Forum in the Swiss city of …

Josep Borrell claims the bloc’s armies would “run out of ammo in two weeks” if confronted with a conflict such as in Ukraine

The Iraqi Ministry of Interior announced on Tuesday, the arrest of 13 prominent terrorists in three provinces. The ministry said, in a statement received by (Al-Ghadeer), that “the Federal Intelligence and Investigation Agency in the Ministry of Interior carried out qualitative operations characterized by accuracy in the performance of duty …

Russian forces were conducting an all-out assault on Tuesday to encircle Ukrainian troops in twin cities straddling a river in eastern Ukraine, a battle that could determine the success or failure of Moscow’s main campaign in the east. Exactly three months after President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian forces into Ukraine, …