Iranian President Hassan Rohani is calling on Muslim countries to cut off relations with Israel and "revise" their trade and economic ties with the United States after Washington moved its embassy to Jerusalem this week.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is preparing a "diplomatic road map" on Iran that will call for European and other allies to help force Tehran back to the negotiating table.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has urged the Islamic world to unite in supporting the Palestinians and combating what he called Israel's "tyranny."
Afghan officials say Taliban militants have killed at least 14 members of the security forces in separate attacks across the country.
Sergei Skripal, a Russian former double agent who was poisoned with a nerve toxin in England in March, has been released from the hospital, British health authorities said on May 18.
A senior U.S. diplomat is warning that a planned gas pipeline from Russia to Germany through the Baltic Sea raises security concerns and risks triggering U.S. sanctions.
Pakistani security forces said on May 17 that they foiled a major terror attack in the southwestern city of Quetta, killing five suicide bombers.
A Sarajevo court on May 17 refused to hand over a Bosnian man to Tunisia to face charges in the 2016 killing of a one-time commander of the Palestinian group Hamas, saying there is no extradition treaty between the countries.
The European Union says it will launch this week the process of activating a regulation to shield the impact of U.S. sanctions on European firms doing business in Iran.
A violent protest in the city of Kazeroon in southwestern Iran has left at least one person dead and six others injured, Iran's semiofficial Fars news agency reports.
Pakistan's military has killed a commander of the Islamist militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) along with two other militants in a raid in the southwestern province of Balochistan, the army said on May 17.
The United States and its Gulf allies say they have slapped new sanctions on the leadership of Lebanon's Iran-backed Hizballah militia, targeting its top two officials.
French energy giant Total joined other major European companies in saying they will exit Iran unless U.S. sanctions are waived, casting a shadow over efforts by European leaders to salvage the Iran nuclear deal.
Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoev is set to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House, testing the waters in Washington as he makes changes in a Central Asian nation long isolated by the repressive rule of his predecessor.
A U.S. judge has sentenced a Turkish banking executive to 32 months in prison after his conviction for evading sanctions on Iran.
European Council President Donald Tusk has slammed "the capricious assertiveness" of the United States under President Donald Trump, who he said has "rid Europe of all illusions."
Iran's foreign minister says Tehran and European powers have made a "good start" in talks over how to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal in the wake of Washington's withdrawal.
President Vladimir Putin touted a range of new weapons that are ready for deployment at a meeting with defense officials in Sochi on May 15, saying they will significantly increase Russia's military capabilities and "ensure a strategic balance for decades."
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