Iran will soon resume direct flights from Tehran to Irbil, a city in Iraq's Kurdistan, an Iranian official said Tuesday, almost six months after the Baghdad government imposed an air ban on the region in retaliation for an independence vote. Flights will start again on April 27, Morteza...

 Three Iranian security personnel were killed by militants in a cross-border attack on the frontier with Pakistan on Tuesday, Iran's Revolutionary Guards said. An Iranian police officer was killed in an ambush on a border post in the city of Mirjaveh in Sistan-Baluchestan province,...

Britain's decision to conduct air strikes against Syria was in the country's national interest, and not the result of pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Theresa May told parliament Monday. "We have not done this because President Trump asked us to, we have done it...

 Iraq has executed 13 people including 11 convicted on charges relating to "terrorism", the justice ministry said Monday. They included individuals responsible for car bombings, "killings of security forces personnel" and kidnappings, it said in a statement, without specifying...