
POLITICS
‘West anti-Islam bids behind terror crisis’
A senior Iranian official says the West’s support for deviant schools of thought to counter the real Islamic ideology is behind the spread of terrorism.

A senior Iranian official says the West’s support for deviant schools of thought to counter the real Islamic ideology is behind the spread of terrorism.

A video shows the moments before and after the fatal shooting of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says efforts must be made to prevent the ongoing crisis in Syria from becoming a "catastrophe".

The deadly incident took place amid New Delhi’s heavy military presence in Kashmir.

The quartet says it is gravely concerned about the acceleration of Israeli settlement expansion.

Theresa May says she is determined to protect UK soldiers who fought in Iraq war from any instances of legal abuse.

An Iranian diplomat says Tehran welcomes a landmark peace deal in Afghanistan as a positive step forward.

Figures show China took over Japan last year to become the world’s second-biggest cross-border investor after the US.

"It is not realistic to reach the final agreement by the end of the Obama administration," Slovakia's trade minister says.

Iraqi army forces and allied fighters have managed to take control of Jazirah al-Baghdadi district in the country's western province of Anbar.

The UN rights chief says refugees, including many children, have been living in limbo in Macedonia since March.

US and Western media coverage of Russia and Syria consists of virtually nothing but lies, an American writer says.

President Rosen Plevneliev and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani discussed the establishment of a rail link from Iran to Europe through Bulgaria in their meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.

One of the three was Syrian, while the two others have both Swedish and Iraqi nationalities.

The joint drill will take place in mountainous areas with about 200 military personnel from both sides involved.

Nearly half of voters believe that Donald Trump, if elected president, would allow use of a nuclear weapon against terrorist groups, a poll shows.

Iran plans to establish an oil swap scheme with Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) which will be similar to a similar scheme it has previously established with several Caspian states.

The Lebanese army says recently captured Daesh militant commander Imad Yassine was planning simultaneous bombings across the country.