Iran and France have agreed to release a French citizen held in Iran, and an Iranian detained in France on charges linked to violating U.S. sanctions against Tehran, the Iranian judiciary said on its website on Friday.
France has released Jalal (...)
Hundreds of Bahraini pilgrims are stranded in Iran, a country with which Bahrain has no diplomatic ties and is the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak in the Middle East.
Jamal, who has been in the Shia holy city of Mashhad with his wife and (...)
Expectations this year indicate that in the future the security of maritime routes in the Middle East – the Red Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, particularly its eastern side, and the Arabian Gulf – will see more conflicts.
Developments in the areas (...)
Bahrain reported the Gulf's first death from the coronavirus on Monday and the energy-producing region broadened measures to shield populations and economies from the outbreak.
Nearly 1,000 people have now tested positive for the virus in Gulf Arab (...)
The novel coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19, continues to spread worldwide, raising the number of infected cases to 156,400, of whom 73,968 people have recovered, while 5,833 people died.
The most infected country in the world after China is (...)
Death toll due to the spread of the novel Coronavirus, known as COVID-19, has reached 5,539 worldwide, while 71,718 cases have recovered globally. According to statistics of the World Health Organization (WHO), 150,598 people have been infected (...)
One night two months ago a group of top leaders from Iraq's Iran-backed Shia militias met secretly at a farm south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad to hammer out plans to respond to bombings by the United States on a militia post.
Angered by the US (...)
An Iranian lawmaker has died from coronavirus, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Saturday, in an another sign the disease is spreading within state institutions.
Iran is one of the countries outside China most affected by the (...)
Iran's death toll from coronavirus reached 145 on Saturday after another 21 people were confirmed to have died during the last day, among them a conservative lawmaker from Tehran, officials and local news agencies said.
Announcing the latest deaths (...)
The total number of confirmed patients infected with the novel coronavirus around the globe reached over 92,000 cases on Sunday.
Around 12,000 of the total number of cases have been detected outside mainland China since the outbreak started (...)
A growing number of countries around the world have been evacuating or planning to evacuate diplomatic staff and citizens from areas hit by the new coronavirus.
Following are some countries' evacuation plans, and how they aim to manage the health (...)
Fighting in Yemen escalated in recent weeks after around six months of abating. Iran-backed Houthi rebels resumed attacking Saudi Arabia while the Saudi-led coalition is increasing its military pressure on the rebels.
Earlier this week, the Houthi (...)
After two days of failed talks in Moscow that ended Tuesday, 18 February, Syria's Idlib province has been on high alert. In these talks, Turkey and Russia tried to negotiate a climb down between Damascus and Ankara in the northwest of Syria.
Turkish (...)
On 21 February, Iran held critical elections for its 290-seat Islamic Consultative Assembly and simultaneously partial elections for its 88-member Assembly of Experts elected in 2016 for an eight-year term, to replace seats in the provinces of (...)
The United Arab Emirates on Tuesday banned all flights to and from Iran over the outbreak of the new coronavirus, just a day after its spread from the Islamic Republic was announced across multiple Mideast nations. Iran meanwhile raised the official (...)
Iranian state TV says the death toll in the country from the new coronavirus has risen to 12, after four more people died.
The TV quoted lawmaker Asadollah Abbasi as saying on Monday that the total number of confirmed cases stands at 47, including (...)
Iran's government said Monday that 12 people had died nationwide from the new coronavirus, rejecting claims of a much higher death toll by a lawmaker from the city of Qom that has been at the epicenter of the virus in the country.
The conflicting (...)
Officials in Iran haven't announced the voter turnout from parliamentary elections two days ago, but on Sunday the country's supreme leader accused enemy ``propaganda'' of trying to dissuade people from voting by amplifying the threat of the (...)
Iran's health ministry raised the death toll from coronavirus to 8 people in the country, amid concerns that clusters there, as well as in Italy and South Korea, could signal a serious new stage in its global spread.
There were now 43 confirmed (...)
Iran's health ministry raised the death toll from the new coronavirus to eight Sunday, amid concerns that clusters there as well as in Italy and South Korea could signal a serious new stage in its global spread.
There were now 43 confirmed cases of (...)
Iranian hardliners have won all 30 parliamentary seats in the capital, Tehran, state TV reported on Sunday, but officials have yet to announce the voter turnout from the nationwide elections two days ago.
State TV also said that former Tehran mayor (...)
A list of candidates affiliated with Iran's Revolutionary Guards is leading in a parliamentary election in Tehran, the Fars news agency reported on Saturday.
Iran has started counting votes in its election, state TV said on Saturday. Hardline allies (...)
