
ENERGY
Iran steps up wind power generation
The Renewable Energy Organization of Iran (SUNA) will buy 80 wind turbines this year for power generation, SUNA’s Iraj Hersini says.

The Renewable Energy Organization of Iran (SUNA) will buy 80 wind turbines this year for power generation, SUNA’s Iraj Hersini says.

An analyst says the United States and the European Union are bent to derail the Minsk Agreement on Ukraine crisis.

Shooting incidents and murders have been rising in New York City over the past two years, officials say.

Muslim Rohingya women have been gang raped at camps in Thailand and Myanmar, media say.

Iraq's PM Haider al-Abadi says ISIL's advance constitutes 'a failure' for the whole world.

Israeli forces kidnap 15 Palestinians during separate attacks on East al-Quds (East Jerusalem) and the West Bank.

Grossman says US neoconservatives are seeking a military attack against Iran over the country’s nuclear program.

Iraqi mourners take part in a funeral procession in Najaf to mourn the deaths of some 45 police officers killed in ISIL terror attack in Anbar.

The Yemeni army, backed by popular committees, carries out several rocket attacks on the Saudi military bases.

A senior Iranian official says terrorists in the region will finally be defeated.

Saudi Arabia is producing 10 times more oil than Iran from the joint Forouzan field in the Persian Gulf, the financial daily Ta’adol reported on Tuesday.

Reporters Without Borders calls on Turkish President Erdogan to stop threatening journalists.

Ron Paul says that the CIA is a “secret government” that is perhaps involved in “domestic assassinations.”

The remains of 80 Iraqi Izadi Kurds are found in a mass grave in a village in Nineveh Province.

Seven aid workers have been killed during an attack by militants in north Afghanistan.

Russia says it will start building the second and third units of Iran's nuclear power plant in Bushehr.

The IAEA urges a global response to cyber attacks on nuclear facilities as concerns rise over the consequences of such incidents.

A university professor says the creation of the ISIL terrorist group is the result of the United States’ strategic mistakes in the Middle East.