Libya’s forces based in the country’s east said Monday they have released a vessel with Turkish crew members seized over the weekend amid heightened tensions in the eastern Mediterranean over a contentious maritime border deal involving Tripoli and Ankara. Ahmed al-Mosmari, a spokesman...

Beijing warned Monday that the U.S was turning the cosmos into a "battlefield", after Washington announced a new military arm called the Space Force. Following concerns that China and Russia are challenging its position in space, U.S President Donald Trump signed the 2020 National Defence...

Iran said it would unveil a redevelopment of part of its Arak heavy water reactor Monday - a move that will not breach international restrictions on its nuclear work but show it is developing the sector in the face of U.S pressure. Tehran said it would switch on a secondary circuit at Arak,...

Schools in Iran's Tehran province have been ordered shut until Friday due to severe air pollution, authorities announced, extending their closure to a full week. Tehran city was cloaked by thick toxic smog for a third successive day on Monday that blanketed out landmarks like Milad Tower...