International

05 January, 2020 BAGHDAD/ TEHRAN: Iraqi parliament has passed a resolution calling for foreign troops to leave the country after the US martyred top Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in a drone strike at Baghdad airport last week. Parliament also called for a formal complaint to be made at the UN …

05 January, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies TEHRAN/ BAGHDAD/ DAMASCUS: Hundreds of thousands of mourners have taken to the streets in Iran to receive home the remains of Qasem Soleimani, the general killed in a US drone strike in Baghdad last week. In Avhaz, mourners beat their chests and …

05 January, 2020 WASHINGTON/ TEHRAN: President Trump has warned the US is “targeting” 52 Iranian sites and will strike “very fast and very hard” if Tehran attacks Americans or US assets. His comments followed the US assassination of Qasem Soleimani, a top Iranian general, in a drone strike. Iran has …

04 January, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies BAGHDAD/ TEHRAN/ WASHINGTON: Thousands of mourners gathered Saturday for a funeral procession through Baghdad for Iran’s top general and Iraqi militant leaders killed in a US airstrike that has caused regional tensions to soar. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite …

04 January, 2020 By SJA Jafri SYDNEY/MELBOURNE: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced 3,000 troops will be deployed to help tackle raging bushfires across the country. Defence Minister Linda Reynolds said this is the first time this has happened in Australia’s history. Temperatures are expected to soar above 40C …

03 January, 2020 PARIS: One person has died and several others have been injured after a knife attack in a suburb of Paris. A man stabbed a number of passers-by in Villejuif, about 8km (5 miles) south of the French capital, on Friday. The attacker was chased by police after …

03 January, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies TEHRAN/ BAGHDAD: The Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei on Friday appointed Brigadier General Esmael Qa’ani as the new commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force. Hours after the IRGC Quds Force Commander Major General Qassem …

03 January, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies TEHRAN/ BAGHDAD/ MELBOURNE: Iran and the “free nations of the region” will take revenge on the United States for martyrdom Revolutionary Guards commander Qasem Soleimani, President Hasan Rouhani said Friday. “There is no doubt that the great nation of Iran and the …

03 January, 2020 By SJA Jafri + Agencies BAGHDAD/ TEHRAN/ WASHINGTON: General Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite al-Quds force and architect of its regional security apparatus, has been martyred following a US airstrike at Baghdad’s international airport on Friday. The Pentagon confirmed the death of Soleimani in Iraq, …

02 January, 2020 By SJA Jafri CANBERRA/ SYDNEY: The son of a volunteer who died fighting Australian bushfires has been presented with his father’s medal for bravery at his funeral. Harvey Keaton, aged 19 months, wore a uniform and sucked on his dummy as he received his father’s posthumous medal …