The United States marked the 40th anniversary of Iran's Islamic Revolution by highlighting what it says are the "broken promises" of the Middle Eastern country's leadership. Tehran launched celebrations Friday to mark the 1979 return from exile of the Islamic republic's founder Ayatollah...

Turkey has "strongly" condemned Israel's decision not to renew the mandate of an international monitoring group in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron. "We strongly condemn Israel's unilateral termination of the mandate of the 'Temporary International Presence in Hebron' (TIPH) ... and...

Iranian Foreign Minister on Saturday argued that the EU countries couldn't dare to take a stand against the U.S. and establish their stance in the international system. Javad Zarif spoke to an Iranian daily and commented on the nuclear deal and the EU countries' attitude towards Washington....

A roadside bomb struck a bus carrying teachers in Manbij killing one person on Saturday, the latest in a spate of attacks in the northern Syrian city since mid-January, a war monitor said. The device exploded as the bus passed, killing the driver and wounding at least four others, Rami...

Iraq resumed oil deliveries to neighbouring Jordan on Saturday as the premiers of both countries met along their shared border as part of a bid to boost trade. Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi met with his Jordanian counterpart Omar al-Razzaz at the Treibil border crossing, referred to...

Four children were among at least 11 people killed when a war-damaged block of flats collapsed in Syria's second city Aleppo on Saturday, state media said. One child was pulled out alive from the rubble of the five-storey block after rescue teams toiled, many of them with their bare hands,...

Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit on Saturday called for a comprehensive solution for the issue of armed militias in conflict-ridden Libya. In a meeting held in Cairo, Aboul Gheit discussed with UN envoy for Libya, Ghassan Salama, the current situation in the North African...

Turkey's ruling party spokesman on Saturday urged for condemnation of Israel’s decision to terminate the mandate of international monitors in the West Bank town of Hebron. In a tweet, Omer Celik of the Justice and Development (AK) Party called on the world to be “careful” about Israel after...

Iran on Saturday unveiled a new cruise missile with range up to 1,350 kilometers (around 840 miles), according to Iran's state television. The missile, named Hoveizeh, was displayed in a ceremony attended by Defense Minister Amir Hatami. According to Hatami, the missile was produced...

 Two attackers scaled the wall of a Basij paramilitary base and opened fire, killing one member of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard and wounding five others in the southeastern town of Nikshahr, Iranian media reported Saturday. Nikshahr prosecutor Mohsen Golmohammadi told the...

The United States has stopped all aid towards Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza, as a part of an anti-terrorism legislation passed last year. A State Department official confirmed the decision to Anadolu Agency, saying that the assistance was ceased following a...

Thirty-two Palestinians were shot and wounded by Israeli troops in renewed clashes along the Gaza border Friday, the health ministry in the Hamas-run enclave said. Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said in a statement they were shot during protests along the border, but none were reported...

The United States on Friday called on Lebanon to deprive Hezbollah of all official funds after the Shiite militant movement took a record three cabinet posts in a long-delayed government. The United States stressed that it was ready to work with Prime Minister Saad Hariri's new government,...

A U.S. court ordered the government of Syria's Bashar al-Assad to pay $302 million dollars in reparations for the killing of an American correspondent. Marie Colvin was killed after the makeshift media center she was working in the Syrian city of Homs was blasted with artillery fire....

Dozens of Palestinians were injured by Israeli troops Friday while staging a protest near the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent (PRC). In a statement, the PRC said that 15 Palestinians had been wounded by Israeli army gunfire after clashes...

The United Nations on Friday called for "unhindered humanitarian access" to people fleeing the last pocket of Islamic State jihadists in eastern Syria. In the past week alone, the UN says more than 10,000 people have fled from the conflict zone to Al-Hol, where the main camp for people...

Israeli Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit will decide whether to indict Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for graft before Knesset elections slated for April 9, Mandelblit announced Friday. In a statement, Mandelblit said his team of prosecutors was currently working on the three...

Sudanese police fired tear gas on Friday at hundreds of protesters in Omdurman, across the Nile from Khartoum, witnesses said, in the latest of more than a month of anti-government demonstrations. Demonstrators frustrated with a worsening economic crisis have been on the streets...

For the 45th week in a row, Palestinians on Friday converged along the Gaza-Israel buffer zone to take part in ongoing rallies against Israel’s decades-long occupation. In a statement, Gaza’s National Authority for Breaking the Siege urged the people of Gaza to take part in Friday’s...

The Daesh terrorist group is seeking to exploit differences between Baghdad and northern Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani said Friday. Speaking to reporters in Erbil, the KRG’s administrative capital, Barzani stressed the “positive atmosphere”...