No Comments On 18 June, Iran conducted its 13th Presidential elections with an all-time low voter turnout of 48.8 per cent. The election results were announced on 19 June, with Iran’s top cleric Ebrahim Raisi, termed ultraconservative, by the western media winning the polls with a landslide victory. Iran’s Guardian Council declared the final list of candidates […]
No Comments The Iranian regime has been providing advanced weapons including night vision equipment, lethal bombs and heavy weaponry to the Taliban, as per a report in Pakistan Forward. Several military officials on condition of anonymity shared intelligence and security reports from last month that say members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have been leading […]
No Comments Naftali Bennett was sworn in on Sunday as Israel’s new prime minister. Though his Yamina party, called as ultranationalist by the western press, won just seven seats in the 120-member Knesset in March elections, it is today in the driver’s seat. Bennett, a modern Orthodox Jew is a resident of Tel Aviv. He is a […]
No Comments Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who stands to lose his position if the coalition wins a trust vote on Wednesday, has accused social media platforms Facebook and Twitter of censoring posts and opinions by the country’s right-wing. He also charged that his political rivals were endangering the country. Netanyahu’s comments came a day after the […]
No Comments Indian foreign policy is beginning to mature from its fence-sitting approach preferred over the decades to being proactive. It now has the pressing need as well as the capacity to look beyond its immediate borders to the extended neighbourhood.
No Comments President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday that Turkish forces had killed a top Syrian Kurdish commander during an offensive in neighbouring Iraq. He called the deceased commander, Sofi Nurettin, a Syrian-born “terrorist.” Erdogan said Nurettin had served as the PKK’s top military commander in Syria. The Turkish army last month launched a new ground and […]
No Comments Jerusalem is a sacred city where the three Abrahamic religions were born – Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. During ancient times following crusades and religious Wars, Jews were driven out of Jerusalem and for centuries this has become the homeland of Palestinian Arabs. Jews after losing out their homeland, were homeless for centuries and settled in […]
No Comments Israel Defences Forces (IDF) has said that Over 1,000 rockets fired at Israel in day and a half of fighting resulting in the death of many Israelis and damage to houses and public property. A man and his daughter were killed in Lod in the Hamas rocket strike. Police said the victims were a father, […]
No Comments Rioting by Arab broke out in the central Israeli city of Lod late Tuesday, with three synagogues and numerous shops reportedly set on fire. Homes were targeted and dozens of cars were set alight, reports Times of Israel. The government has declared a state of emergency in the city which has a mixed population of […]
No Comments On 20 April, the talks in Vienna entered the second round of discussions as countries pushed towards achievable goals. Iran, China, Russia, Germany, France, the UK and the EU agreed to form a third expert working group to prioritize the restoration of the accord. On 19 April, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said: “we will reach […]
