Iranian authorities have shut down schools and canceled sporting events around Tehran due to thick smog covering the capital city.
The U.S. Defense Department hailed success on the battlefield by Afghan forces and urged Taliban insurgents to embrace "peace and political legitimacy" through a negotiated settlement with the government in Kabul.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas’ Fatah faction has called for an "angry" demonstration on December 20 to protest against a visit to Jerusalem by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence.
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says Washington will deal with Iran through a "diplomatically-led effort," a day after a top U.S. diplomat said Tehran was supplying weapons to the Huthi rebels in Yemen.
U.S. prosecutors said Ali Soofi, a dual citizen, "conspired to export military items from the United States to Iran, both directly and through transshipment to intermediary countries, without a license" between 2014 and 2016.
An executive at Turkey's state-owned Halkbank denied that he helped Iran evade U.S. sanctions as he took the witness stand in his defense in a high-profile sanctions case unfolding in New York.
U.S. President Donald Trump says he is not satisfied with Russia’s cooperation in efforts to pressure North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons program.
The husband of jailed Iranian-British aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe says there have been "positive steps" toward her release following British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson's visit to Tehran last week.
An eighth round of Syrian peace talks ended on December 14 in Geneva without progress in what the United Nations mediator called a "big missed opportunity."
The United States has concrete evidence that Iran was supplying weaponry to the Huthi rebels in Yemen, in violation of United Nations sanctions, the U.S. ambassador to the world body has charged.
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp’s (IRGC) commander announced in a speech on Thursday that Iran is working to “consolidate” its victories and “in the near future we will witness victory in Yemen.”
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