The United States will slap new sanctions on a number of Iranian officials and entities, including a judge who sentenced Iranian wrestler Navid Afkari to death, US Special Representative for Iran and Venezuela Elliott Abrams said Thursday. "The US is committed to holding accountable those...

The foreign ministers of Jordan, Egypt, France and Germany Thursday urged Israel and the Palestinians to engage in "credible dialogue" to restore "hope" to the peace process. "Ending the stalemate in peace talks, the creation of political horizons and the restoration of hope through...

Longtime Palestinian rival groups Fatah and Hamas on Thursday agreed during talks in Turkey to hold elections "soon".  In an exclusive interview with Anadolu Agency, Azzam al-Ahmad, a member of the Fatah’s Central Committee, said: "It was agreed to hold legislative elections,...

Iran's death toll from the novel coronavirus rose by 175 to 25,015 on Thursday, the highest in the Middle East, with the total number of identified cases spiking to 436,319 in the country, according to the Health Ministry. Health Ministry spokesperson Sima Sadat Lari told state TV that 3,521...