Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif described Iran’s missile attack to the US base in Iraq as a “proportionate measure” which came “in self-defense”, IRNA reports.
Speaker of the House of Representatives of US Nancy Pelosi has said that she is monitoring the developments around Iran’s missile strikes at US bases in Iraq.
A Boeing 737 plane operated by Ukraine International Airlines has crashed shortly after takeoff from Imam Khomeini Airport in Tehran early Wednesday local time, Iranian media reported.
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has targeted US airbase of Ain al-Assad in Anbar province in western Iraq on Wednesday in response to the US assassination of the IRGC’s Quds Forces, Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s state news agency IRNA reported.
The Armed Forces of Armenia have opened warning shots as Azerbaijani troops were attempting to carry out engineering works in the frontline, according to Armenia military spokesperson Artsrun Hovhannisyan.
Minister of Defense Davit Tonoyan visited the Yerablur Pantheon military cemetery in Yerevan to pay homage to those who died in service to Armenia.
The Trump Administration has begun drafting sanctions against Iraq after the US President publicly threatened the country with economic penalties if it proceeded to expel U.S. troops, the Washington Post reported citing three people briefed on the planning.
Azerbaijan breached the ceasefire regime in the Line of Contact around 130 times from December 29 to January 4, the Artsakh Ministry of Defense said in a statement.
Libyan National Army (LNA) Commander General Khalifa Haftar has warned that his forces will mobilize to repel any foreign soldiers sent to Libya, after Turkey approved a troop deployment to assist the rival government in Tripoli, RT reports.
Thousands rally in Baghdad as a convoy carried the bodies of those killed in the US air strike on Friday in the Iraqi capital, Al Jazeera reported.
