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Astana to host new Syrian talks next week
The Russian Foreign Ministry confirms that Iran, Russia and Turkey will hold a fresh round of Syrian talks in Astana next week.

The Russian Foreign Ministry confirms that Iran, Russia and Turkey will hold a fresh round of Syrian talks in Astana next week.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad dismisses Trump’s plan for the creation of "safe zones" for refugees and displaced people in northern Syria.

Protesters denounced a government decree that dismissed 330 academics.

US President Trump says he is "thinking seriously" about moving the country's embassy to Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

A political analyst believes Donald Trump has no chance to win the case if he chooses to take his travel ban dispute to the Supreme Court.

A senior adviser to US President Donald Trump may have violated federal ethics rules by using her position to promote product lines of Trump's daughter.

The Syrian president receives 54 Syrian women and children recently freed from militants under a prisoner swap deal.

The Turkish president on Friday approved the bill that would change the country’s political system into a presidential one if the issue is approved in a referendum.

Here is a selection of news photographs taken during the mass rallies marking the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says his administration has been able to reduce the country’s reliance on oil revenues over the past three years.

Iran holds first women’s motocross championship in the capital city of Tehran.

US President Donald Trump’s proposed US-Mexico border wall would be a series of fences and walls that would cost as much as $21 billion, according to a government estimate.

Riots continue on the suburbs of the French capital for a fourth night over a police assault on and abuse of a black man.

A Bahraini rights group says the Manama regime arrested 1,300 pro-democracy activists in 2016.

The Iranian president says the millions-strong marches underway across the country are a response to “untrue remarks” by the new US authorities.

A monitoring group says Syrian soldiers and Turkish forces have clashed in the northwest of the city of al-Bab in Syria’s Aleppo Province.

The number of Israeli settlers living in the occupied West Bank surged beyond 421,000 in 2016, a settler group says.

Over 100 people have reportedly been killed in Brazil over several days of anarchy as police forces have been on strike and unavailable.