
RUSSIA
Russian S-500 missiles coming soon
Russia plans to deploy its state-of-the-art S-500 Prometheus ballistic and hypersonic missile defense system this year.

Russia plans to deploy its state-of-the-art S-500 Prometheus ballistic and hypersonic missile defense system this year.

Iranian football club Persepolis defeats Esteghlal 4-2 to win the 82nd Tehran derby.

US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders would perform better than Hillary Clinton in a general election.

More than 50 Taliban militants are killed in north Afghanistan as government repels major attack.

Pakistan has dismissed as “preposterous” US claims that its intelligence agency helped fund a 2009 attack on a CIA outpost in Afghanistan.

The Syrian government gives the UN envoy amendments on the guiding principles set in the last round of peace talks in Geneva.

Americans continue to cite the economy and the government as the most important problems facing their country, a new poll shows.

Thousands of Iraqi people protest in the capital, Baghdad, calling for reforms.

Iran’s OPEC governor Hossein Kazempour Ardebili will participate in the Qatar meeting.

A Palestinian health group says at least 1,700 ill Palestinians prisoners are currently being held in Israeli jails.

Yemenis take to the streets to deplore continued Saudi aggression against the country.

Bahraini protesters vow to continue struggle for democracy in the country.

A senior Iranian military commander says enemies cannot catch Iran’s Armed Forces off-guard.

The US government is an aspiring empire and “super predator” determined to control the world, an American writer and political analyst says.

Germany accepts Turkey's request to prosecute German comedian Jan Boehmermann over a satirical poem about Erdogan.

An American political analyst says multinational corporations own the US Congress, which passes wages wars to boost their profits.

Human Rights Watch says 30,000 civilians have fled skirmishes between Daesh and rival militant groups in northern Syria in 48 hours.

The US has criticized China’s human rights record in an annual report, prompting Beijing to blast Washington’s own rights record.