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The Foreign Ministry said Pyongyang would not “waste time” with “submission” and “obedience” to Washington North Korea has claimed it could “shake the world” by firing a missile at the United States and suggested it had hydrogen bombs, intercontinental ballistic missiles, and hypersonic missiles at its disposal. “In today’s world where many countries waste time dealing with the United States with submission and blind obedience, there’s only our country on this planet that can shake the world by firing a missile with the US mainland in its range,” North Korea’s Foreign Ministry stated on Tuesday. “There are more than 200 countries in the world, but…

The Saudi-led coalition launches once again a series of raids on the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, targeting a communications network in Manakhah Haraz District. Once again, the Saudi-led coalition launched a series of raids on separate areas of Sanaa, targeting Al-Hafa area in Al-Sabeen District and Bani Matar. Al Mayadeen’s correspondent in Yemen reported that the Saudi coalition also carried out airstrikes on a communications network in Manakhah Haraz District. The Saudi-led coalition of aggression warplanes had targeted the districts of Mudaghl and Al-Juba with a number of raids, without recording casualties, and the Haradh border district in Hajjah with 13…

Early on February 9, two waves of Israeli strikes targeted military positions around the Syrian capital, Damascus, in a new escalation. “Around 12:56 of today’s morning, the Israeli enemy carried out an aerial aggression with salvos of missiles launched from the southwest of [the Lebanese capital] Beirut, and around 1:10 it carried out an aggression with ground-to-ground missiles from the direction of the occupied Golan Heights, targeting positions around Damascus city,” an official Syrian military source told the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA). Syria’s heavy air defense fire was not able to prevent losses. According to SANA’s source, the Israeli…

By: Hussain Haider, Indiana activities exclusive for Mideast Discourse India became free from the clutches of Britishers in 1947 and freedom fighters who fought against British laid down the foundation of a secular, scientific and vibrant India. Though Constitution of India clearly gives freedom to followers of all religions to follow their religions as per teachings of that religion, but attempts are continuously made to force Muslim community to stop following their religion. Every aspect of Muslim life is under scrutiny since the right wing Bhartiya Janta Party won the parliamentary elections in 2014 and attempts are made by right…

Moscow has repeatedly objected to Western nations supplying Kiev with advanced armaments, arguing that it could prompt the Ukrainian government to use force to solve its domestic conflict in the east. Kiev also recently bought several combat drones from Turkish defence companies. Forces of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), one of the two self-proclaimed republics in Donbass, intercepted a Ukrainian military drone that they planned to use to guide artillery fire with, LPR officials have stated. “The enemy launched a ‘LELEKA-100’ unmanned aerial vehicle in the area of the Popasnaya settlement [under Kiev’s control]. [This drone is] capable of transmitting…

The Islamic Republic has been actively upgrading and developing its defence industry in light of international sanctions that have long prevented the country from buying weapons abroad. The nation’s missile programme has sparked numerous protests in the West, with Tehran, however, refusing to slash it, and insisting on its right to defend itself. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps will be unveiling a new “strategic missile” in the near future, IRGC Aerospace Force commander, Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, has stated. It is manufactured domestically in Iran. The brigadier general did not elaborate on the new missile’s specifications and effective range…

Some Twitter users have branded Israel’s police a bunch of liars. Others have been urging the government to dismantle the entire institution, while there have also been those who expressed their anger at the Jewish state “losing” its democratic values and “infringing upon basic rights”. Weeks after revelations by Calcalist that suggested Israeli police have been spying on former politicians, mayors, and political activists for years, the news website has stirred up yet another storm.On Monday, the publication unveiled a long list of people who have been monitored by the police, apparently with no warrant from a court to do so, and without…

The Israeli occupation forces assassinate three Palestinians in Nablus, claiming they carried out shooting operations against the IOF last week. The Israeli occupation forces assassinated Tuesday three Palestinian civilians and arrested another, after opening fire at their vehicle in Nablus. At noon, the IOF stormed Al-Makhfieh neighborhood in Nablus in a public vehicle holding a Palestinian registration plate. It then opened fire at a vehicle with four Palestinian passengers, which led to the martyrdom of three of them and the arrest of the fourth whose identity has not yet been identified. For its part, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in…

Moscow, SANA- Washington is plundering Syria’s natural resources and secretly involved in the illegal oil trade, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) said. Sputnik News Agency quoted the SVR as saying in a statement that the US companies continue to plunder the Syrian natural resources, as Washington remains actively involved in the illegal trade of oil produced in the occupied territories of northeast Syria, adding that up to 3 million barrels of raw materials are extracted from fields in the provinces of Hasaka, Raqqa, and Deir Ezzor every month. The US occupation continues plundering and looting the Syrian resources, as dozens…

Ahead of India’s state polls, Hindu supremacist politician Yogi Adityanath seeks to be re-elected as chief minister of the country’s most populous state, backed by his anti-Muslim rhetoric. A monk known for his controversial anti-Muslim rhetoric leads the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) into Thursday elections in India’s most populous state — Uttar Pradesh — where a strong win could put him in pole position to succeed Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Yogi Adityanath, 49, has stirred controversy since his surprise appointment in 2017 as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, a state in northern India home to over 200 million…