The United States, along with allies France and Britain, launched air strikes on Syria early on April 14 in response to a suspected Syrian chemical attack that killed dozens of people last week.
U.S. President Donald Trump announced "precision strikes" on Syrian military facilities used to make chemical weapons and said the attacks launched jointly with France and Britain are aimed at ending the use of such weapons of mass destruction.
Reports received from Iran on social media say angry farmers again launched protests in Isfahan, central Iran on Friday, against “mismanagement of water resources”.
More than two weeks after widespread protests in Iran’s oil-rich southwestern Khuzestan province, the exact number of people detained during the unrest is still unknown.
In a report released on April 12, London-based international human rights watchdog Amnesty International said “more than half (51%) of all recorded executions in 2017 were carried out in Iran.”
Hardline cleric Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi, better known as Makarem, has called for execution of “a few main foreign exchange dealers”.
Russia's UN ambassador pleaded with the United States not to stage a military strike against Syria after the UN Security Council deadlocked over proposals responding to a suspected chemical weapons attack outside Damascus.
Tehran’s city council accepted former Mayor Mohammad Ali Najafi’s resignation at an April 10 meeting.
U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to take military action against Syria over a suspected chemical weapons attack on Damascus civilians over the weekend, while Russia warned any such action would have "grave repercussions."
U.S. President Donald Trump says he will make "major decisions" on Syria in the "next 24 to 48 hours" in response to a suspected chemical attack, as calls increased for an international response to the crisis ahead of a UN Security Council meeting on April 9.
Tehran’s Mayor Mohammad Ali Najafi has once again resigned a few hours after Prosecutor-General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri threatened him to step down.
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