
AFGHANISTAN
'Taliban seize key district in Afghanistan'
The Taliban militants control most of the Musa Qala district in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand.

The Taliban militants control most of the Musa Qala district in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand.

Young Iranian female taekwondo artists are crowned at the second edition of the WTF World Cadet Taekwondo Championships in South Korea.

Nearly three dozen aid agencies call for an end to Israel’s eight-year blockade on the Gaza Strip.

The Saudi kingdom executes four more convicts amid international calls to stop the practice.

Ayatollah Khamenei says the enmity of the US and the Israeli regime toward Iran has never subsided.

Iran commissions new facility to boost natural gas exports to neighboring countries in Caucasus and Anatolia to 60 million cubic meters per day.

At least three Syrian people are killed in rocket attacks by Takfiri militants in the Syrian city of Homs.

A UN report says Israeli weapons are widely used in the conflict in South Sudan.

Four people have been shot and injured inside a house in the US state of Minnesota, police say.

A British girl in Manchester has pleaded guilty to terror charges.

Reports say the long-awaited Chilcot report on Iraq war blame more senior officials beyond Tony Blair and his inner circle.

The Iranian government expects an economic growth of five percent in 2016 as the country is beginning to emerge from draconian US-led sanctions.

Daesh Takfiri militants kidnap 30 Kurdish civilians from an area in Syria’s northwestern province of Aleppo.

Iran’s nuclear chief says a special task force will be formed to design the Arak heavy water reactor.

The FBI has started a civil rights investigation into the use of excessive force by guards at a prison in Kansas City, Missouri.

Iran is building the Middle East’s first geothermal power plant at the foot of an inactive volcanic peak as the country is racing to meet a runaway demand for electricity by its growing population.

Israeli forces detain at least 31 Palestinians in areas across the occupied West Bank.

Palestinians propose that Palestine’s flag be flown at the UN headquarters in New York.