TEHRAN, May 10 -Conflict forced more than 10 million people to flee their homes to live elsewhere within their own country last year, bringing the total number of people internally displaced by violence to a record high, monitors said Friday.
TEHRAN, May 10 - Two French soldiers have been killed during an operation to free four hostages held by a militant group in northern Burkina Faso, France has announced.
TEHRAN, May 10 - At least 50 refugees drowned on Friday when their boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off the Tunisian coast after they had left Libya hoping to reach Europe, the United Nations migration agency said.
TEHRAN, May 10 - Bahrain has received the first installment of a multi-billion-dollar support package from key Persian Gulf allies as the kingdom’s economy struggles with a current account gap and a large state budget deficit, which have dragged down prices of its international bonds and pushed its national currency against the US dollar.
TEHRAN, May 10 - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s anti-Iran threats are nothing but “bombastic” comments stemming from the same war rhetoric already used by Washington against Libya, Syria and Iraq, which itself receives “war marching orders from Tel Aviv,” says an American political analyst.
TEHRAN, May 09 - One of Facebook’s co-founders has called CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s power “unprecedented and un-American,” adding that Facebook should be broken up into multiple companies.
TEHRAN, May 09 - The world's largest wood-carved Quran measures 1.77 by 1.40 meters and can be found in the Indonesian city of Palembang, as shown in footage from Thursday.
TEHRAN, May 09 - The United States and the European Union are complicit in the “whitewash” of the Israeli regime’s “war crimes” against the Palestinian people , an international NGO says.
TEHRAN, May 09 - The Syrian army has regained control of a strategic town from Takfiri terrorists in the country's northwest, media reports and local residents say.
TEHRAN, May 08 - US President Donald Trump has issued an executive order to impose new sanctions on Iran to deny it of revenue from exports in the metal and mining sectors.
TEHRAN, May 08 - A Russian military source says Turkish military personnel are set to travel to Moscow later this month in order to participate in a training course on the operation of advanced S-400 air defense missile systems.
TEHRAN, May 08 - Iran has lived up to its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal with six world powers but the United States hasn't, says a special adviser to European Union foreign policy chief Federical Mogherini.
TEHRAN, May 08 - Tehran and Moscow have called on the European sides to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal to comply with their commitments to guarantee the survival of the agreement, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
TEHRAN, May 08 - Norwegian police have temporarily moved a prominent Arab pro-democracy activist and a vocal critic of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to a secure place after being tipped off about a possible threat against him from the kingdom.
TEHRAN, May 08 - Qatar accused the United Arab Emirates Wednesday of a "campaign of violence and hatred" against its citizens, urging the International Court of Justice to quash a case brought by Abu Dhabi.
TEHRAN, May 08 - Independent United Nations human rights experts have warned that prominent Emirati pro-democracy campaigner and rights activist Ahmed Mansoor may be enduring treatment amounting to torture, including prolonged solitary confinement, as he is serving his jail terms in the Persian Gulf Arab country.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan says his country is keen to complete the construction of a much-delayed pipeline designed for receiving Iran’s natural gas, weeks after he paid a visit to the neighboring state.
TEHRAN, May 07 - The US Congress now simply rubberstamps anything that the president does because power has long since been usurped by the executive branch, a former US Senate policy adviser and diplomat says.