European Union leaders have reaffirmed their commitment to a landmark deal to limit Iran's nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief, despite opposition from U.S. President Donald Trump.
Iranian authorities have allowed opposition figure Mehdi Karrubi, who has been under house arrest since 2011, to meet with an activist from his own party, the first such meeting in the past six years.
EU leaders on October 19 are set to voice support for a landmark deal to limit Iran's nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief, one week after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would not to certify that Iran was complying with the agreement.
A court in the northeastern U.S. city of Boston has found a 28-year-old man guilty of conspiring to behead a conservative blogger over a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest.
Iraqi government forces say they have taken control of areas previously held by Kurdish forces in the provinces of Nineveh and Diyala.
Iran is ready to do business with American oil companies even though the United States still prohibits them from operating in the country, Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh has said.
Several thousand people took to the streets of Catalonia on October 17 after a judge ordered the detention of two separatist leaders amid tensions over the region's referendum on independence from Spain.
U.S.-backed forces say they took “full control” of the city of Raqqa, long the extremist group Islamic State’s main stronghold in Syria, following heavy fighting against a few dozen militants remaining in the city.
Afghan officials say two separate suicide and gun attacks on government forces have left at least 35 people dead.
Afghan officials say suicide bombers and gunmen have launched an attack on a police training center in southeastern Afghanistan, killing at least 16 people and wounding dozens of others.
A senior Russian diplomat says he expects to hold talks with an Iranian counterpart this week to discuss the situation surrounding the Iran nuclear deal following U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to abandon the multinational accord if is not amended.
Negotiators from Afghanistan, China, Pakistan and the United States met in Oman on October 16 to try to find ways of reviving peace talks with the Afghan Taliban.
Missile strikes by a suspected U.S. drone hit a militant compound in the Kurram tribal region close to the Pakistan-Afghanistan border late on October 16, killing 20 extremists, intelligence officials said.
The United States expressed "concern" but said Washington wouldn't take sides as Iraqi government forces took over key assets in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk from Kurdish authorities on October 16.
Pakistan has deported the Turkish former director of the PakTurk chain of private schools along with his family, his former colleagues and a lawyer have said.
European Union foreign ministers have adopted new sanctions on North Korea due to Pyongyang's "violation and flagrant disregard" of several United Nations Security Council resolutions concerning its nuclear and ballistic missiles program.
Iraqi forces have entered the disputed city of Kirkuk and taken control of the provincial council's headquarters, witnesses say.
European Union foreign ministers have closed ranks in support of the Iran nuclear agreement, warning that U.S. President Donald Trump's threats to abandon the multinational accord jeopardizes efforts to find a peaceful solution to the nuclear standoff with North Korea.
The Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents are set to meet on October 16 to discuss a possible settlement of the conflict over Azerbaijan’s breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
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