Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) says its forces have killed 10 militants in a Kurdish region near the border with Iraq.
A top Iranian constitutional body has approved measures passed by parliament to bring the country more into line with international anti-money-laundering norms.
The leaders of the five Caspian Sea countries are meeting on August 12 in the Kazakh port city of Aqtau to sign a convention in efforts to solve major differences over the resource-rich body's legal status.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says no meetings are planned with U.S. officials, including U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
The Iranian currency started the new Iranian week on Saturday with another decline, trading above 10,500 rials to the dollar.
U.S. President Donald Trump spoke on Friday with French President Emmanuel Macron and they discussed trade, Iran and the Middle East, the White House said.
The embattled Turkish lira tumbled almost 20 percent to new record lows against the dollar on Friday as strains with the United States intensified.
Hundreds of Taliban militants launched a major assault on a provincial capital in Afghanistan, killing at least 14 members of Afghan security forces before being pushed back with the help of U.S. air power, Afghan and U.S. military officials said.
A United Nations agency says Syria's seven-year-long civil war has cost the country $388 billion in economic damage.
The Kremlin says that, after more than two decades of negotiations, leaders of the five Caspian Sea countries will sign a convention on the resource-rich sea's legal status at a summit in the Kazakh port city of Aqtau on August 12.
U.S. warplanes and helicopters launched air strikes on August 10 to counter a Taliban attack on the Afghan provincial capital of Ghazni, where heavy fighting is under way as security forces try to repel the militants.
Three human rights organizations have urged Iranian authorities to stop "harassing and threatening" the families of activists and journalists as a tactic to silence dissent and criticism.
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