A grandson of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini is expected to seek election early next year to the body that chooses Iran's supreme leader and is said to have the cautious blessing of the incumbent, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Registration opens on Thursday for the election that is likely...

  There "seems to be no agreement" on two key issues just hours before the latest international conference on Syria is held Friday in New York, Iran's foreign minister said. Mohammad Javad Zarif told The Associated Press on Thursday that his country has seen "no lists we can agree upon" of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Syrian rebel group, Ahrar al-Sham movement, has mourned Thursday one of its senior commanders who has been killed in the southern countryside of Aleppo. Muthar Abdul Salam Hamdoun, also known as Abu Abdul Salam al-Sham, has lost his life in the ongoing battles with...

(Amnesty)- A former detainee holds up a label from one of the items provided to refugees held in the partly EU-funded Erzurum Deportation Centre in eastern Turkey The European Union (EU) is in danger of being complicit in serious human rights violations against refugees and...