Iranian President Hassan Rohani will address the country on December 31 after three days of antigovernment street protests over rising prices left at least two demonstrators dead and prompted security officials to warn of an “iron fist” response.
A suicide bomber has killed at least 15 people at a funeral in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad.
The Reuters news agency reports that Russian tankers have supplied fuel to North Korea on at least three occasions in recent months by transferring cargoes at sea, providing an economic lifeline to the communist state.
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says he expects there will be a larger U.S. civilian presence in Syria soon since the fight against the Islamic State (IS) extremist group is nearing a conclusion.
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has said that the U.S. role in Ukraine is not changing and Russia has no cause for concern about a U.S. decision last week to supply new weapons to Kyiv.
President Donald Trump on Friday condemned the arrest of protesters in Iran, telling Tehran that "the world is watching" .
Turkish defense officials say Ankara and Moscow have signed a deal under which Russia will supply up to two S-400 surface-to-air missile batteries to Turkey.
Social-media giants Facebook and Twitter have been given until January 18 to turn over information related to allegations of Russian interference in Britain's 2016 referendum on leaving the European Union.
Iranian police have dispersed antigovernment protesters and arrested dozens of people in the western city Kermanshah and the capital, Tehran, as demonstrations against price hikes have turned political and spread to several cities.
U.S. President Donald Trump said he believes he will be treated fairly by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is leading an investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law ratifying an agreement enabling Russia to expand operations at its naval facility in the Syrian port of Tartus.
Large crowds of people took to the streets in the western Iranian city of Kermanshah on December 29, a day after hundreds protested against high prices and shouted political slogans in the country's second-largest city, Mashhad.
A monitoring group says that about 39,000 people, including 10,507 civilians, were killed in the Syrian war in 2017.
U.S. President Donald Trump has lashed out at China, saying he is "very disappointed” that Beijing is allowing oil to go into North Korea and endangering a “friendly solution” to the crisis on the Korean Peninsula.
Afghanistan's Interior Ministry says at least 40 people have been killed and 30 wounded by multiple bomb blasts at a Shi'ite cultural center near a news agency in Kabul.
The Syrian government appears to be allowing Islamic State (IS) militants to move freely through territory it controls, the U.S.-led coalition fighting IS in Syria has said.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has belittled U.S. President Donald Trump, saying his tough stance toward Iran will fail like efforts by his hard-line predecessor, Ronald Reagan.
At least 10 people have been injured in an explosion at a busy supermarket in the Russian city of St. Petersburg, Russian media report.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says he is "united in opinion" with his U.S. counterpart Rex Tillerson on the issue of North Korea but that they differ on how to resolve the crisis over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program.
A spokeswoman for EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini says Russia’s decision to bar opposition politician Aleksei Navalny from the 2018 presidential election "casts serious doubt on political pluralism in Russia" and and on the prospects for democratic elections in the country.
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