MOSCOW (AFP) -  At least 37 people were killed when a fire ripped through a busy shopping centre in an industrial city in western Siberia, with scores more reported missing, including children. "At this time, we can confirm the deaths of 37 people in the fire at the Kemerovo...

Iran has called the appointment of the former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton to the role of National Security Adviser of the United States "a shame," Iranian media reported Sunday. The report by the semi-official Fars news agency quoted Ali Shamkhani, secretary of the country's Supreme...

Hundreds of Syrian rebels and civilians were bussed out of a second pocket of the besieged eastern Ghouta suburbs of Damascus Sunday after rebels agreed to leave several towns and villages after years of siege and weeks of heavy bombardment. Close to 900 people were evacuated from the...

Seven people were killed in attacks across Iraq including the country's capital city Baghdad early Sunday.  Iraqi information security center affiliated to the Iraqi army said that four civilians of a family were killed in an armed attack against a security point in As Sa'diyah...