Iran’s deputy speaker of the parliament on Sunday said the Interior Ministry should accept public demands instead of “raising difficulties” in the wake of anti-government protests across the country. According to the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), Motahari said that the...

Vladimir Putin has a new year’s message for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad: Russia will continue to back Syria. In an end of year greeting issued by the Kremlin, Putin insisted that he would “continue to render every assistance to Syria in the protection of state sovereignty,...

Four Indian soldiers and three suspected militants were killed Sunday after rebels stormed a paramilitary camp in disputed Kashmir, officials said. Gunmen in combat dress entered the camp near southern Lethpora village early Sunday firing guns and grenades at the sentry, said...

Thirty-six people were killed and 11 injured early Sunday morning in a head-on collision between a bus and a lorry on a road in central Kenya, police said. "The death toll is now 36," said Rift Valley traffic police chief Zero Arome, explaining the initial toll of 30 had risen, "after...