London: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that there was a “body of information” to suggest an Iranian surface-to-air missile brought down a Ukrainian passenger plane that crashed near Tehran earlier this week. Johnson’s comments on Thursday came the same day his Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau said that he had seen evidence that suggested […]
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Iran launched 16 missiles from 3 locations, says US
Washington: US Secretary of Defence Mark Esper has said Iran launched 16 short-range ballistic missiles from three locations within Iran in Wednesday’s attack on the US air bases in Iraq. Esper, with Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley aside, told reporters on Wednesday that out of 16 missiles, 11 hit the Ayn […]
Ukrainian Boeing passenger plane crashes in Iran, 179 killed
Tehran: A Kiev-bound Ukrainian Boeing 737 passenger plane with 179 people on board crashed on Wednesday shortly after taking off from the Iranian capital of Tehran, killing all those aboard. The number of people on board had differed and also the toll was initially said to be 176. But the head of Iran’s Emergency Medical Services, […]
Iran’s retaliation against US only a slap: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Tehran: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday said that Tehran’s attack on the US Ain al-Asad airbase in Iraq, which was in retaliation to the January 3 killing of Major General Qasem Soleimani, was just “a slap”. “A slap was delivered, but what is important is that the seditious presence of America in the […]
80 US personnel killed in Iran missile attack: IRGC source
Tehran: Some 80 US personnel were killed and nearly 200 others injured during Iran’s missile attack on the American Ain al-Asad airbase in Iraq on Wednesday, which was launched in retaliation to the killing of Major General Qasem Soleimani, an IRGC source has claimed. Speaking to the Tehran-based private Tasnim News Agency, the source said the […]
All onboard killed in Ukrainian plane crash in Iran
Tehran: A Kiev-bound Ukrainian plane crashed on Wednesday shortly after taking off from the Iranian capital city of Tehran, killing at least 170 people on board, authorities said. The number of people on board was initially reported to be 180, but Iranian media have differed on the figure — 169, 170, and 176. A BBC report […]
Iran hits US airbases in Iraq in response to Soleimani’s death
Tehran/Baghdad: Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said on Wednesday that it launched a missile attack on the US airbase of Ain al-Asad in Iraq in retaliation against the death of Major General Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in an American drone attack on January 3. “Tens of surface-to-surface missiles,” were fired at the strategic […]
Pentagon confirms Iran struck US forces in Iraq
Washington: The Pentagon has confirmed that Iran has launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles against the US military and coalition forces in Iraq, in what appeared to be the first retaliatory strike by Tehran in the wake of the January 3 American drone attack that killed Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad. “At […]
Soleimani’s killing divides Sunni-Shia world
New Delhi: As much as the troika of Turkey, Malaysia and Pakistan has been portraying itself as the champion of Islam and the Muslim world, the killing of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander Qasem Soleimani has exposed the historic Shia-Sunni sectarian faultline once again. Though the general population among Sunnis, who constitute around […]
35 killed in stampede during Soleimani’s funeral procession
Kerman (Iran): At least 35 mourners were killed on Tuesday in a stampede during a funeral procession for Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani in his hometown of Kerman, where he will be laid to rest later in the day, according to state media. Besides the 35 victims, Iranian state TV also confirmed that 48 others […]