TEHRAN (Defapress) - A powerful earthquake shook parts of the southern Philippines on Thursday night, but authorities said it was too deep to cause major damage and no tsunami warning was issued.
TEHRAN (Defapress) - The Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said Western countries are obliged to immediately put an end to vicious sanctions against the Iranian nation.
TEHRAN (Defapress) - A top Iranian commander said the country’s armed forces are ready to counter any external threat that aims to undermine the Islamic Republic’s peace and security.
TEHRAN (Defapress) - Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov dismissed US accusations Russian hackers are behind cyberattacks against its organizations.
Tehran (Defapress) - There has been a fresh assassination attempt against Venezuela's president. Nicolas Maduro has unveiled there was an attempt against his life on the day of the parliamentary elections, which his ruling socialist party won by a landslide.
TEHRAN (Defapress) – US President Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon to withdraw nearly all of the hundreds of American troops deployed to Somalia, which is part of a global pullback by the outgoing president that will also see him drawdown forces in Afghanistan and Iraq.
TEHRAN (defapress) – EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell described the assassination of Iranian physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh as a “criminal act”.
TEHRAN (defapress) – Spokesperson for Armenia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Anna Naghdalyan condemned the killing of top Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, saying Yerevan decries all acts of terror wherever they may occur in the world.