Italy wants a U.N. arms embargo on Libya to be lifted to help the North African state battle people smugglers and halt the flow of migrants seeking a better life in Europe, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said on Thursday. "My aim is not to have even one boat come here," Salvini,...

A Sunni-Muslim scholar was shot dead by unidentified attackers in Iran’s southeastern Sistan and Baluchestan province Thursday, according to local media reports. Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency reported that Molavi Abdushakour Kord Tarshabi, a well-known scholar and Muslim...

Russia do everything possible to maintain the global nuclear deal with Iran, the foreign ministry in Moscow was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency on Thursday.

Iran's state TV is reporting that the country's foreign ministry has summoned envoys from France, Germany and Belgium over the case of an Iranian diplomat detained in Germany. Thursday's report says Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi held separate meetings with the three diplomats in...