At least 20 people have reportedly died and 24 others injured in a bus accident in Iran, according to an Iranian newspaper. The bus was reportedly heading to Gonbad from the capital Tehran when

ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will host Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Wednesday to inaugurate a new gas pipeline, with tensions in Libya and Syria also on the agenda.Putin arrived late on Tuesday

ANKARA: Turkey has deployed 35 military personnel to Libya but they will not take part in any fighting, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said, according to local media on Wednesday.“The soldiers will not fight. Other

Iran has fired more than a dozen rockets at two Iraqi military bases hosting US troops, the Pentagon confirmed.    The rockets fired at the Ain al-Asad base in Anbar province and a base

TEHRAN: The US government is warning ships across Middle East waterways crucial to global energy supplies that there’s the “possibility of Iranian action against US maritime interests” in the region.The US Maritime Administration put

TEHRAN: Iran has dropped espionage charges that had been laid against a French academic detained in the Islamic republic since June last year, her lawyer said on Tuesday.“The espionage charge has been dropped” for

The remains of Qassem Soleimani, a top Iranian military commander who was assassinated last week in an air strike in Baghdad by the United States, have arrived in his hometown of Kerman for burial later on

Dozens of people have been killed in a stampede that erupted in the Iranian city of Kerman at the funeral procession for a top commander killed in an air strike by the United States,

BEIRUT: Former Renault-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn, who skipped bail in Japan and fled to Beirut, is due to be summoned by Lebanon’s public prosecutor next week, an official said Friday.The Lebanese authorities have already

BEIRUT: Lebanese President Michel Aoun said in a statement on Friday that he hoped a new government would be formed next week. Aoun said work was underway to form a government of specialists that