Section: Iran
Donetsk Human Rights: Ukraine keeps 1,500 prisoners, mainly civilians
The Ukrainian side is keeping 1,500 prisoners, Human Rights Envoy of Donetsk Daria Morozova said on Tuesday. Morozova said only 250 people are militia, and the rest are civilians, the Donetsk News Agency reported. Earlier, she told reporters the Ukrainian side had been detaining civilians aged between 40 and 65 to form up “a bank of...
Donetsk Human Rights: Ukraine Keeps 1,500 Prisoners, Mainly Civilians
TEHRAN (FNA)- The Ukrainian side is keeping 1,500 prisoners, Human Rights Envoy of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) Daria Morozova said on Tuesday. …read more Source: Fars News...
Poroshenko Confirms Kiev Uses Ceasefire to Rearm Troops
TEHRAN (FNA)- Ukraine is using a ceasefire in Donbas to strengthen its defense capacities and rearm troops, President Petro Poroshenko said on a trip to an army training center in the country’s North-central Chernihiv region. …read more Source: Fars News...
Kerry in Russia to meet Putin over Ukraine
US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Russia on Tuesday hold talks with President Vladimir Putin over the crisis in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Poll: Majority of Russians see US as threat
A newly released poll shows nearly 60 percent of Russians view the United States as a threat to their country, following a deterioration of relations between Washington and Moscow in the past year over the crisis in Ukraine. …read more Source: Iran...
US Secretary of State Kerry Traveling to Russia, Set to Meet Lavrov
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – US Secretary of State John Kerry is planning a trip to Sochi on Tuesday, where he is expected to meet Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The diplomats are to discuss the situation in Ukraine, Yemen, Iraq and Syria. …read more Source: Tasnim News...
Venice Biennale Pavilions for Iraq, Ukraine and Syria Reflect Strife at Home
Photo Staged photographs by Akam Shex Hadi at the Venice Biennale feature people from communities under Islamic State attack with black fabric coiled around their feet. Credit Akam Shex Hadi VENICE — When Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, fell to the Islamic State in June, members of the Ruya Foundation, an Iraqi nonprofit that set up the...
Merkel hopeful about Iran-5+1 nuclear talks
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has expressed optimism over the conclusion of a final agreement between Iran and six world powers on Tehran’s nuclear program. According to Press TV, Merkel during a joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Sunday said: “I would like to point out that we have hopeful signals...
Militia Intelligence Say Kiev Concentrates Forces along Engagement Line in East Ukraine
TEHRAN (FNA)- Reconnaissance units of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) see the Ukrainian military continue gathering forces by the engagement line in Donbas and fortify their positions, spokesman of the republic’s Defense Ministry Eduard Basurin told reporters on Monday. …read more Source: Fars News...
Russian president slams West’s double standards toward Yemen
The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has criticized the double standards of Western states and the US toward Yemen. According to IRIB World Service, in an address to reporters at the end of his talks with the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, in Moscow on Sunday, the Russian president termed as unacceptable the US double standards toward...
