TEHRAN (defapress) – The Republic of Azerbaijan announced the reopening of several border stations on the border with Iran after the liberation of these areas from the control of Nagorno-Karabakh.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Thousands of Yemenis held a protest in the Arab country’s southwestern province of Taiz against French President Emmanuel Macron’s anti-Islam remarks and republication of caricatures insulting Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).

TEHRAN (defapress) – The secretary-general of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement condemned a terror attack that killed people at a church in France’s southern city of Nice, stressing that Islam forbids killing innocent people and categorically rejects such crimes.

TEHRAN (defapress)- Unidentified armed men have reportedly shot dead a senior militant affiliated with the Kurdish-led and US-sponsored Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), who was chiefly responsible for smuggling crude from oilfields in Syria’s Eastern province of Deir Ezzur.

TEHRAN (defapress) - The Indian government has resisted American pressure over the purchase of state-of-the-art armed Predator-B drones, also called the MQ-9 Reaper, during the recently held 2+2 ministerial-level dialogue in New Delhi.

TEHRAN (defapress) – A strong earthquake of magnitude of up to 7.0 struck the Aegean Sea on Friday and was felt in both Turkey and Greece.

TEHRAN (defapress)- Iran’s representative to the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee, Mohammad Zare’iyan, deplored a new report by the UN rights rapporteur on the human rights situation in his country as part of the US "maximum pressure" strategy aiming to further hurt the Iranian nation.

TEHRAN (defapress)- The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas denounced Sudan’s current junta for its decision to follow suit amid normalization of relations between certain Persian Gulf Arab countries and the Israeli regime.

TEHRAN (defapress) – The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas slammed France for publishing cartoons that insult Islamic sanctities.

TEHRAN (defapress) – The Yemeni military carried out retaliatory attacks on an airbase in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern province of Asir, using domestically-manufactured combat drones.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Azerbaijan's President Aliyev announced that Baku is ready to hold talks with Armenia on a ceasefire in Karabakh.

TEHRAN (defapress)- A Palestinian teenager was martyred early Friday morning after he was severely beaten by Israeli occupation soldiers near the village of Turmus-Ayya, to the Northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian security and medical sources.

TEHRAN (defapress)- The Presidency of the State of Palestine expressed on Friday its condemnation and rejection of the Israeli-Sudanese deal on normalizing the relations between the two counties, saying it will take the necessary decisions to protect the legitimate interests and rights of the Palestinian people.

TEHRAN (defapress)- NATO has reduced its military personnel in Afghanistan to fewer than 12,000, the Alliance's Chief Jens Stoltenberg stated.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Pakistan Foreign Minister said that his country will examine aspects of lifting arms embargo on the Islamic Republic of Iran.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Saad al-Hariri secured enough support in parliamentary talks on Thursday to be named Lebanon’s prime minister and try to form a government to tackle the worst crisis since the country’s 1975-1990 civil war.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Diplomatic delegations from Iran and Iraq weighed plans to carry out the agreements the two neighbors have reached in the past.

TEHRAN (defapress)- Israeli fighter jets and helicopters carried out fresh strikes on the besieged Gaza Strip, targeting farmlands in the coastal enclave.

TEHRAN (defapress)- Head of Afghanistan’s High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah announced that the US army will continue pulling out its forces from Afghanistan by the end of the year.

TEHRAN (defapress)- The leader of Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement held the United States and Western intelligence services responsible for the creation of Takfiri terrorist groups, saying France's external intelligence agency plays a significant role in this regard.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Iraqi forces launched a major operation in Mosul, the center of Nineveh, to clear the area of the remnants of Daesh terrorists.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Iraq's Popular Mobilization Units, also known as Hashd al-Sha’abi forces have thwarted three ISIL's terrorist operations against Samarra in the past 72 hours.

TEHRAN (defapress)- Palestinian resistance movement Hamas said Israel’s approval of the construction of nearly 5,000 settler units in the occupied West Bank — a brazen violation of international law — is the result of normalization deals between Arab regimes and Tel Aviv.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev dismissed as lies allegations by some media outlets about the transfer of weapons and military equipment to Armenia through the territory of the Islamic Republic.

TEHRAN (defapress) – The Yemeni army and Popular Committees and the Saudi-led coalition will exchange some 1,081 prisoners Thursday and Friday, under a deal struck in Switzerland last month, a senior Yemeni official said Thursday.

TEHRAN (defapress)- An official in East Azarbaijan said that a missile fired by the warring sides in Karabakh conflict has hit Heris County, 70 kilometers Northeast of Tabriz on Tuesday.

TEHRAN (defapress)- Amid threats of a US war against Iraq’s anti-terrorism resistance groups, a prominent faction of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units — better known as Hash al-Sha’abi —reiterated its readiness to end the US military presence in the Arab country, saying all weapons should be pointed at American positions on Iraqi soil.

TEHRAN (defapress)- Israeli naval forces reportedly transgressed upon Lebanon’s maritime border, opening fire on Lebanese fishermen on the eve of high-stakes maritime border talks between the occupying regime and Beirut.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Lebanese Christian politician Gebran Bassil criticized former prime minister Sa'ad al-Hariri for putting himself forward to lead a government.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Amal movements expressed their opposition to the makeup of the delegation tasked with negotiating the country’s southern border demarcation with occupied Palestine, calling for changes to the team ahead of the first round of talks.

TEHRAN (defapress) – In a meeting with his Iranian counterpart, the governor of the Central Bank of Iraq said, “Iraq is trying to improve banking cooperation with Iran via adopting some mechanisms in order to resolve the current banking issues."

TEHRAN (defapress)- A US military convoy of 30 vehicles, loaded with logistic reinforcement, has arrived in Syria’s oil-rich Northeastern province of Hasaka, media report said.

TEHRAN (defapress)- A roadside bomb has exploded near a convoy of trucks carrying equipment belonging to the US-led military coalition purportedly formed to fight the Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) terrorist group in Iraq’s Southern province of al-Muthanna.

TEHRAN (defapress)- The prime minister of Yemen's National Salvation Government condemned Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for their double-standard in the devastating war on Yemen, saying the both regimes are exterminating the Yemeni people while commemorating the death of thousands of Jews during Germany’s Nazi era.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad rebuked his US counterpart, Donald Trump, for his earlier intention to kill the Syrian leader, saying assassination is nothing new but rather a typical policy tool of America.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Syrian President Bashar Assad slammed his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan for instigating the ongoing war between Armenian and Azeri forces by sending Takfiri militants to the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Turkey accused French President Emmanuel Macron of “encouraging Islamophobia” with his recent remarks claiming that “Islam is in crisis”.

TEHRAN (defapress)- A London-based war monitoring group said Turkish military units have hit the positions of Syrian government troops in the Eastern part of the country’s Northwestern province of Idlib with no immediate report of casualties.

TEHRAN, Oct. 05 (MNA) – The spokesman for Yemeni Armed Forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, revealed on Sunday with the documents, part of the relationship of the former regime with the Zionist entity and Israeli interference in Yemen.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Syrian President Bashar al Assad said the Islamic Republic of Iran and Russia have played a significant role in the development of Syria’s peace talks.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Iraqi security forces arrested two senior members of the Daesh terror group in the capital Baghdad, according to Iraq’s Interior Ministry.

TEHRAN (defapress) – The Palestinian Fatah movement directed sharp criticism at US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for his recent call to replace the Palestinian leadership.

TEHRAN (defapress) – The Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi described his country's relations with Iran as good and said there are no real problems in the relations between the two countries.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Iranian Minister of Labor, Cooperatives and Social Welfare Mohammad Shariatmadari met and held talks with Syrian Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Salwa Abdullah through videoconference.

TEHRAN (defapress)- Iranian and Syrian ambassadors to Russia underlined bolstering of mutual cooperation in various fields, and denounced compromise deal of some Arab regimes with Israel.

TEHRAN (defapress)- Ankara expects Azerbaijan to "liberate its territories" in Nagorno-Karabakh, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Iraqi forces thwarted a major attack by Daesh (ISIS or ISIS) terrorists on Diyala, northeast of Baqubah.

TEHRAN (defapress) - The European Union could impose sanctions on Ankara if Turkish "provocations and pressures" continue in the East Mediterranean.

TEHRAN (defapress)- A Syrian diplomat said his country will never clinch an agreement with the Israeli regime that will undermine the interests of the Arab world, particularly the Palestinian cause.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Syria has underlined its rejection of any agreement with the Israeli regime, noting that the regime is harming the Arab cause and especially the Palestinian cause.

TEHRAN (defapress) – A criminal court in Saada has sentenced ten, including US President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salam, to death for an attack on a Yemeni school bus claimed that 51 lives and injured 79 in 2018.

TEHRAN (defapress) – New Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah said that the country will remain loyal to the Palestinian cause.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah was sworn in as emir of Kuwait on Wednesday, succeeding the late Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Members of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), also known as Hashd al-Shaabi forces, thwarted a major attack by Daesh terrorists in the northwestern province of Salahuddin.

TEHRAN (defapress)- A group of journalists looked for evidence of war crime at the scene of a recent massacre of civilians, including children, during a Saudi Arabia-led strike that targeted a civilian home near Yemen’s border with the kingdom.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Secretary-General of the Lebanese Hezbollah Resistance Movement Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah is to deliver a speech on Tuesday.

TEHRAN (defapress)- Chairman of Yemeni Ansarullah's Supreme Revolutionary Committee Mohammed Ali al-Houthi blasted the US and the West for bringing about death and destruction in Yemen.

TEHRAN (defapress) – The foreign ministers of Iran and Iraq held a meeting in Tehran to discuss a broad range of political and regional issues, including plans to broaden relations between the two Muslim neighbors.

TEHRAN (defapress)- The Turkish foreign minister slammed US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “blatant ignorance” for suggesting that Turkey is not democratic.

TEHRAN (defapress) – Iraq’s Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi has ordered the formation of a committee tasked to build a nuclear reactor for research purposes, the Iraqi Radioactive Sources Regulatory Authority (IRSRA) revealed.