Iraqi forces backed by the U.S.-led coalition announced Tuesday they have retaken two districts of Tal Afar from Daesh (ISIS), the extremists' last bastion in the country's north. Army, police and units of the Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary coalition were now in "full control" of Al-Kifah and...

Iran's new communications minister said Tuesday that negotiations were underway with Twitter to unblock the service, which has been banned for years despite being used even by the country's supreme leader. The micro-blogging platform was barred at the time of mass anti-regime protests in...

China defended its ally Pakistan on Tuesday after U.S. President Donald Trump said the United States could no longer be silent about Pakistan's "safe havens" for militants and warned it had much to lose by continuing to "harbor terrorists". Trump on Monday committed the United States to an...

 Iranian state television is quoting the country's atomic chief as saying the Islamic Republic would need only five days to ramp up its uranium enrichment to 20 percent - a level at which the material could start to be used for a nuclear weapon. State TV's website on Tuesday quoted Ali...