
NORTH AFRICA
Tunisians protest against return of militants
About 1,000 people staged a demonstration in central Tunis.

About 1,000 people staged a demonstration in central Tunis.

Theresa May has requested some more time to reveal her Brexit plans.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says his forces are on the road to gain more ground against foreign-backed terrorists following the recapture of Aleppo.

Ayatollah Khamenei offers his condolences over the demise of the chairman of the Expediency Council.

Witnesses said monks barged into the ceremony shortly after it started.

A commentator says the ultimate goal of NATO’s enlargement is to break up Russia into very small powerless client states similar to what happened in Yugoslavia.

The intercontinental ballistic missile will be launched anytime and anywhere, the KCNA says.

A commentator says the political system in UK and US is infected by Zionism, whose main principle is to destroy any country in the Middle East that could resist Israel’s territorial expansion.

A senior Iranian official says Takfiri terrorism must be differentiated from the opposition that believes in political process.

The Chairman of the Expediency Council passes away due to heart disease.

Iraqi special forces have reached the Tigris River that runs through the central part of the Daesh-held northern city of Mosul.

The man was reportedly identified by police as a 34-year-old Uzbek.

Hundreds of flights are canceled as the Turkish city of Istanbul is blanketed with heavy snow.

US President-elect Donald Trump has called for a closer relationship between the United States and Russia.

Israel has apologized to Britain after a secret video showed an Israeli diplomat threatening to "take down" some anti-Israeli British officials.

Storm Auring makes a landfall at southern Philippine islands, prompting mass evacuations.

Assad made the remark in a meeting with a visiting delegation of French parliamentarians and intellectuals in Damascus.

A senior Iranian official warns of suspicious bids to wreck a nationwide truce across Syria.