
AFGHANISTAN
Taliban claims Kabul military base attack
The Taliban militant group claims responsibility for a deadly attack on a military base in the Afghan capital city of Kabul.

The Taliban militant group claims responsibility for a deadly attack on a military base in the Afghan capital city of Kabul.

Rival politicians from rival left-wing parties have asked to vote in Labour leadership election.

Obama has vowed to ‘hit back hard’ against the Israeli lobby’s efforts to sink the nuclear agreement with Iran.

A funeral is held for a Palestinian father who lost a baby in an arson attack by Israeli settlers and who himself died of his wounds.

Italy’s Fata, the engineering unit of the country’s leading group Finmeccanica, has signed a 500 million euro ($543 million) contract with Ghadir Investment Company to build a power plant in Iran.

An Egyptian police officer is killed and three more wounded in a drive-by shooting attack by gunmen on a truck transferring prisoners.

Former CIA contractor Steven Kelley says now is the time to slay the satanic ISIL monster and punish the people who created it.

Tory's plans to appoint more supporting peers to House of Lords. This has sparked outrage in opposition camp saying it is against democratic principles.

More than a dozen people are injured in mortar attacks by foreign-backed Takfiri militants around the Syrian capital, Damascus.

An agribusiness review of Iran by a research center, part of Fitch Group, has offered an upbeat assessment of the country’s agriculture sector.

The Iranian foreign minister will reportedly visit Turkey and Lebanon next week.

Washington plans to invest $68 million to finance military bases in Estonia.

Armed forces end a hostage-taking standoff at a hotel in central Mali that left 13 people dead.

A worker in his 50s loses his life in an accident at a nuclear power plant in Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture.

Iranian and Indian officials will reportedly meet next week to discuss plans for construction of an aluminum smelter and a captive power plant in Iran in a project worth about $2.6 billion.

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish HDP says civilians were killed in Turkish airstrikes against Zergele village in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.

US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz says he is so worried about congressional opposition that it "keeps me up at night."

Iran marks National Reporter’s Day on the anniversary of the killing of an IRNA correspondent in Afghanistan.