TEHRAN (defapress) – Iraqi military aircraft bombarded a Daesh terror group hideout south of Kirkuk, managing to kill 23 of them, security sources said.

TEHRAN (defapress)- Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan turned down Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu’s resignation late Sunday which he had tendered over incidents that occurred ahead of a weekend curfew across much of the country to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Iraqi troops and fighters from the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) repelled two major attacks by Daesh terrorists in the provinces of Kirkuk and Diyala.

TEHRAN (defapress) – The Spokesman for the Yemeni Armed Forces Brigadier General Yahya Saree said the Arab country’s troops repelled several Saudi assaults on Bayda province amid claims by the Saudi-led coalition that it has halted aggression on Yemen due to the outbreak of the coronavirus.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres talked about the crisis in Yemen and ways to maintain a recent ceasefire in the war-hit country.

TEHRAN (defapress) – A Republican member of the US Senate submitted a bill to withdraw US forces from Saudi Arabia if it does not adhere to the plan to reduce oil production.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Yemen’s air defense units intercepted and targeted a Saudi-led spy drone over the northern province of Sa'ada.

TEHRAN (defapress) – At least 22 Daesh militants were killed after Syrian troops repelled a major attack by the terror group in the central province of Homs.

TEHRAN (defapress)- The US has weaponized the coronavirus pandemic to blast Damascus' efforts and to supply its friendly armed groups with UN aid, instead of helping refugees, the Russian and Syrian militaries announced.

TEHRAN (defapress)- Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey Mustafa Sentop in a phone conversation with his Iranian counterpart Ali Larijani who has been infected with coronavirus wished him health, and stressed the need for strengthened collective cooperation to fight against the disease.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Iraqi President Barham Salih on Thursday named intelligence chief Mustafa Kadhimi as prime minister-designate, state television reported.

TEHRAN (defapress)- The Afghan government has released 100 Taliban prisoners on Wednesday, a government official said, a day after the armed group said it was walking out of talks with Kabul.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Yemeni troops continued their fight against Saudi-backed mercenaries along border areas, managing to recapture the strategic al-Khanjar camp in the northern al-Jawf province.

TEHRAN (defapress) – The UN condemned the shelling of the women’s section of the Central Prison in a district of Yemen’s Taiz southern province, which left at least five women and one child dead.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Saudi warplanes on Monday targeted residential areas in several Yemeni provinces, including Sa’ada, Hajjah, Ma’rib, Jawf, and al-Bayda.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Yemeni troops continued their fight against Saudi-backed militants in Ma’rib, managing to kill and injure at least 80 mercenaries in the central province, reports said.

TEHRAN (defapress) - Iraq’s Kata’ib Hezbollah (Hezbollah Brigades) warned US President Donald Trump about taking any hostile measures against the Iraqi nation and resistance groups.

TEHRAN (defapress) - Iraq’s Communications and Media Commission said Friday that it has banned international news agency Reuters from operating in the country for three months for reporting that the number of the nation’s novel coronavirus cases is much higher than official figures.

TEHRAN (defapress) - Yemen’s popular Houthi Ansarullah movement has called on the Saudi-led coalition of aggressors to consider its proposal for 12-party mediation aimed at ending the bloody war on the impoverished Arab state.

TEHRAN (defapress) - A spokesman for Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) said Washington, by leaking out news suggesting the US intends to target resistance groups, is, in fact, seeking to cover up the realities of a leadership void amid the quickly worsening coronavirus pandemic in the country.

TEHRAN (defapress) – The Syrian army says the country’s air defenses in the central province of Homs have intercepted a number of missiles fired by Israeli warplanes.

TEHRAN (defapress) – The Syrian government confirmed its first-ever case of death from coronavirus in the Arab country.

TEHRAN (defapress) - A squadron of Yemeni drones and missiles targeted Saudi Arabia’s sensitive sites in the capital Riyadh and elsewhere, the spokesman for Yemeni Armed Forces said.

TEHRAN (defapress) - A squadron of Yemeni drones and missiles targeted Saudi Arabia’s sensitive sites in the capital Riyadh and elsewhere, the spokesman for Yemeni Armed Forces said.

TEHRAN (defapress) – The Syrian government confirmed its first-ever case of death from coronavirus in the Arab country.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Secretary-General of Hezbollah Resistance Movement Sayed Hassan Nasrallah said the international community must stop turning a blind eye on Saudi crimes in Yemen and put pressure on the regime to end its aggression against the impoverished Arab country.

TEHRAN (defapress) – US President Donald Trump is making dangerous moves in Iraq while the world is fighting against coronavirus outbreak.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Syrian army troops in a fierce firefight repelled an attack by a militant group on its positions along the Dara’a-Sweida axis on Friday.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Leader of Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement Abdul-Malik Badreddin al-Houthi said on Thursday that he promises the Arab and Saudi alliances will witness new “advanced military capabilities” that they never expected.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Afghanistan’s government late on Thursday announced a 21-member team to negotiate with the Taliban in a tentative sign of progress for the peace deal.

TEHRAN(defapress) – Sudan’s defense minister, Gen. Gamal al-Din Omar, died Wednesday of a heart attack while on an official visit to neighboring South Sudan, Sudanese military and government officials said Wednesday.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Turkey imposed restrictions on Tuesday on grocery store opening hours and numbers of shop customers and bus passengers, adding to steps to combat the spread of the coronavirus after the country's death toll from the illness rose to 37.

TEHRAN (defapress) - Head of Lebanon’s Hezbollah Resistance Movement condemned smuggling out of an Israeli operative, who was jailed in Lebanon on security charges, by the US military, describing it as clear violation of Lebanon’s sovereignty.

TEHRAN (defapress) – The Syrian army forces on Wednesday heavily targeted an sleeper cell of Daesh (ISIS/ISIL) terrorists in the vast desert region of Homs province.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rahmon in a message on Wed. felicitated his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani on the advent of Nowruz, the Persian New Year celebration which is also celebrated in Tajikistan.

TEHRAN (defapress) – The Pentagon announced it will drastically reduce the “size and scope” of its participation in the NATO ‘Defender Europe 2020’ exercise, stopping just short of calling quits on the much-touted drill set to run until May.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Iraqi President Barham Salih on Tuesday appointed Adnan al-Zurfi as the country's new prime minister-designate in the latest bid to resolve a months-long political crisis.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Turkey has dispatched a cargo of medical supplies to Iran to help the country combat the outbreak of the new coronavirus based on an agreement reached between the two countries.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Turkey identified 12 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing its total to 18, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Monday, marking the highest daily rise since the country announced its first case last week.

TEHRAN (defapress) – In a Sunday meeting between Iranian Ambassador to Kuwait Mohammad Irani and Chairman of the Kuwait Red Crescent Society Hilal Al-Sayer, the two sides underlined the significance of mutual cooperation on combating against the novel coronavirus.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Bahrain has once again repeated the baseless accusations against the Islamic Republic, trying to question Iran’s measures against the new coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

TEHRAN (defapress) – The secretary-general of the Lebanese resistance movement of Hezbollah denounced Washington’s attitude towards Iran amid the Islamic Republic’s tough battle against the Coronavirus outbreak, calling on Persian Gulf nations to support Tehran in dealing with the deadly virus.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Bahrain's authorities have suspended the flights of the stranded Bahraini pilgrims in Iran after the outbreak of Covid-19 in multiple Iranian cities.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Through a tweet, ash-Shimmari severely criticized American mercenaries for their objection to last night’s attack against the military base of the occupiers.

TEHRAN (defapress) – The US has carried out a series of airstrikes against multiple locations of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) on Friday night.

TEHRAN (defapress) – A Pakistan Air Force’s F-16 aircraft crashed in Islamabad during the rehearsals of the March 23 parade, a spokesperson for the force said on Wednesday.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan says the United States has offered to sell Turkey its Patriot missile defense system if Ankara promises not to operate a rival Russian system, in what he called a significant softening in Washington’s position.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Talks between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the European Union over the fate of refugees in his country ended in failure Monday with no clear agreement over what should happen next on an issue that has further strained relations.

TEHRAN (defapress) – The Iraqi Prime Minister has recently revealed the heavy pressure from Washington against Baghdad to cut ties with Iran and responded that Iraq’s relations with Iran will remain strong.

TEHRAN (defapress) – The Information Minister of Yemen's National Salvation Government Zeifollah al-Shami said that the UN Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths is seeking to break down Yemen.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Iraq’s caretaker prime minister said the US is pressurizing Baghdad to sever relations with Tehran, but Iraqis will never allow their country to become a staging ground for clashes between other countries.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has postponed the inaugural ceremony for his second term in office, his spokesman said, after his rival Abdullah Abdullah suspended a plan for parallel swearing-in event, averting a political crisis for now after US mediation efforts.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Syrian troops and angry local residents forced a US military convoy to retreat from an area in the northern province of Hasakah.

TEHRAN (defapress) – At least 27 people have been killed after gunmen attacked a ceremony in the Afghan capital where a top Afghan political leader, Abdullah Abdullah, was present but escaped unharmed.

TEHRAN (defapress)- Turkey is using the problem of refugees to blackmail Europe amid the escalation of tensions in the Syrian province of Idlib, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told the broadcaster Rossiya 24.

TEHRAN (defapress)- Tehran and Islamabad are determined to boost bilateral ties in all areas as officials of the two sides hold that broader parliamentary ties will lead to stronger Iran-Pakistan relations.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Nasser Mohammed Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah voiced the Arab country’s readiness to help Iran combat the outbreak of the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Palestinians protested in the occupied West Bank after Israeli bulldozers began clearing land in what villagers fear is an attempt to confiscate it for future illegal settlements.

TEHRAN (defapress) – The Syrian Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the US and Turkey for the "illegitimate infiltration" of American officials into the Arab country's Idlib province.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Consultations between a delegation from eastern Libya and Syrian officials regarding Turkish aggressions in both countries have drawn the attention of analysts.