News Archive - 13 August 2021

"Now the Taliban are 100 percent in control. There is no fighting at the moment. Most of the officials fled to Kabul," lawmaker Saeed Qaribullah Sadat told AFP, NDTV reported. With this capture, the Taliban is moving rapidly to the seat of the nation, Afghanistan's capital, Kabul. All government...

Moscow calls for adding more international mediators in the Afghan conflict resolution process, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday, adding that Iran and India could join the process, Urdu Point reported. "We are interested that the Iranians also join, and at next stages, other countries, in particular, India," Lavrov told reporters. RHM/PR...

Former Esteghlal defender joined the Turkish team on a two-year contract for an announced fee. The left-footed player was one of the top performers of Esteghlal in the last season of the Iranian league and also in the AFC Champions League. Altay Spor Kulübü has won promotion to the...

According to security sources, six people were killed in a “serious firearms incident” in the southwestern UK late Thursday, Anadolu Agency reported. The victims, including two women, two men, and the suspected assailant, died at the scene in the Keyham area of Plymouth city, according to the Devon and...

News sources reported on Friday morning that at least two US logistics convoys had been attacked. The Sabreen news channel close to Iraqi Resistance groups reported that a US military logistics convoy had been targeted in Baghdad's Yusufiya township. Shortly after, the source reported that another convoy was targeted in al-Mushdah area in...

A reliable source says that on Thursday night, in a telephone conversation with Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, the US Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense asked him to resign in order to allow a ceasefire and the formation of a transitional government, AJC reported. Later, a senior US State Department...

The Zionist army claimed on Thursday evening that it had shot down a drone, belonging to Lebanese Hezbollah, that had entered Occupied Territories of Palestine from Lebanon. Zionists claimed in a brief statement on Thursday evening that the incident took place on Wednesday. They have not provided any document to...

The Taliban has claimed to have taken Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second-biggest city. Citing witnesses, the Associated Press reported the Taliban had seized the governor’s office and other buildings. The witnesses declined to be named publicly as the government had not yet acknowledged the defeat, Aljazeera reported. Kandahar is completely conquered.

The floods caused chaos in northern provinces as authorities announced that the fires, which had been raging for two weeks in southern coastal areas, had been brought under control, Athina984 reported. Twenty-five people died in the floods in the province of Kastamonu and two more people died in Sinop, the Directorate of...

Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi has picked Hossein Amirabdollahian as the new Minister of Foreign Affairs. If he manages to win the Parliament’s vote of confidence and become the next foreign minister, young and determined as he is, one might hope to see more efforts taken in line with implementing...

In a statement on Friday, Saeed Khatibzadeh expressed concern over the escalation of tensions in Afghanistan and the situation of the Afghan people who were displaced, calling for paying attention to the lives of people and civilians amid the current situation. Referring to the Taliban's dominance over the city of Herat, Saeed Khatibzadeh...

"Many reporters call me and ask about the health and safety of Iranian diplomats in Herat. Sorry, I can not answer their questions one by one," the Director-General of the Department of South Asian Affairs at the Iranian Foreign Ministry said in a Friday tweet. Iranian diplomats, like the diplomats of the other...

Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education announced the new figure, adding that 4,707 of the newly-detected patients have been hospitalized since yesterday. Accordingly, the total number of COVID-19 patients in the country is standing at 4,359,386. The outbreak has claimed the lives of 527 people since Thursday, bringing the...

Speaking on the sidelines of visiting vaccination centers in Mashhad province, IRGC Chief Commander Major General Hossein Salami stressed that the IRGC's top priority is to support medical staff to combat the pandemic and expand the vaccination centers across the country. All the IRGC facilities are working to control Coronavirus, the commander added.

Speaking in the meeting of the National Task Force Against Coronavirus,  Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi stressed that there is no problem in allocating funds to the import of the Covid-19 vaccine. The import of vaccines has accelerated at the same time as the production of domestic vaccines and this is one of...

TEHRAN, Aug. 13 (MNA) – Forth night of the holy month of Muharram was held with the presence of Tehran's people by observing health protocols.

MASHHAD, Aug. 13 (MNA) – With the arrival of Muharram, the art of calligraphy, one of the old arts in Iran, is used on the mourning flags and signs.

TEHRAN, Aug. 13 (MNA) – A mourning ceremony for the fourth night of Muharram was held at Imam Ali Officers' Academy by observing health protocols.