Russia declares its air defenses have again thwarted a Ukrainian “terrorist attack” against its capital Moscow using drones, reporting no casualties or significant damages in the aftermath. The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement that three Ukrainian drones were involved in the attack that took place in the early …

Senior Taliban representatives and a delegation of US officials discussed the economic stability and drug trafficking in two-day talks in the Qatari capital of Doha two years after the Taliban swept back to power. The two sides discussed confidence-building measures during the two-day talks, including the lifting of sanctions and …

China’s defense ministry has warned the United States against going further down a “wrong and dangerous” path after Washington approved a new military aid package for Chinese Taipei (Taiwan). The US must stop all forms of “military collusion” with Taiwan, said Defense Ministry spokesperson Tan Kefei in a statement on Tuesday a after …

A former childcare worker in Australia has been charged with more than 1,600 child abuse offenses, including rape, against 91 young girls across the country and abroad over a 15-year period. Australian Federal Police (AFP) authorities say they became aware of the 45-year-old Gold Coast childcare worker’s alleged offenses after recently …

Pope Francis has denounced as “barbaric” the recent Qur’an burning in Sweden and Denmark, saying such blasphemous moves prevent dialog among nations. The pontiff made the remarks in a letter on Tuesday, in response to Argentinian Shia Muslim scholar Abdul Karim Paz, representative of Argentina’s Islamic foundation. Last week, Abdul …

Myanmar junta partially pardoned charges against the ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, cutting her 33-year jail sentence by six years. The Western-backed leader Suu Kyi, 78, was convicted on 19 offences and sentenced to 33 years of imprisonment after being detained since the military coup in early 2021, on …

The US military has separately used dozens of tankers and trucks to smuggle crude oil and crops from the country’s northeastern Province of Hasakah to bases in neighboring Iraq, amid Washington’s attempts to further plunder natural resources in war-ravaged Syria. Syria’s official news agency SANA, citing local sources in al-Ya’rubiyah …

Israeli military officials say they don’t want a confrontation with the Hezbollah resistance movement, amid tensions near the border fence between Lebanon and the Israeli-Occupied Territories, reports say. The Palestinian Sama news agency reported that the overview presented by senior military officials to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a …

The World Food Programme (WFP) has announced that the lack of funds, combined with the continuous disruptions in supplies, has left it with no choice but to halt malnutrition prevention activities in Yemen. The food aid arm of the United Nations said in a report that the program will come …

Members of the far-right Israeli regime led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu say they will not make any concession to the Palestinians as part of a potential deal for normalization of relations with Saudi Arabia. “I can say that Israel will not give in to anything that will erode its …

The illegal Zionist settlers have once again intruded into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound under the protection of Israeli forces in the latest act of provocation against the sacred site. Palestine’s official WAFA news agency reported that scores of the illegal settlers, escorted by military forces, broke into the compound through …

The Secretary-General of the Badr Organization, Hadi Al-Amiri, received in his office in Baghdad today, Tuesday, the head of the New Generation Movement,  Shaswar Abdel-Wahed. Al-Amiri’s office stated in a statement received by (Al-Ghadeer) that the two sides discussed the overall political situation in the country, including the elections for …