Iran's president has fired one of his deputies for taking what he described as a "lavish" recreational trip to Antarctica.
President Masoud Pezeshkian ordered the removal of Shahram Dabiri from his position as vice president of parliamentary affairs (...)
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian announced Sunday that Tehran has rejected direct negotiations with the United States over its nuclear program, responding to a letter from President Donald Trump delivered via Oman.
"We don't avoid talks; it's the (...)
US President Donald Trump, in a letter to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei proposing negotiations on a new nuclear deal, made clear that Iran has a two-month deadline to reach an agreement, a source familiar with the letter's contents (...)
US President Donald Trump has warned Iran that it will face "dire" consequences if Yemen's Houthis continue to attack international shipping lanes.
He said the Iranian leadership would be held responsible for "every shot fired by the Houthis", which (...)
The Houthis announced that they launched an attack comprising of 18 ballistic and cruise missiles, along with drones, targeting the USS Harry S Truman aircraft carrier and its accompanying warships in the northern Red Sea on Sunday.
Houthi military (...)
China, Iran and Russia called for diplomacy over "pressure and threats" and an end to "all illegal unilateral sanctions" following talks on Tehran's nuclear program on Friday in Beijing, Chinese state media said.
The meeting, attended by the three (...)
Almost a decade since world powers sealed a historic deal to limit the Iranian nuclear program, this is a crunch moment for Iran and the international community.
The country is now closer than ever to being able to make a nuclear bomb.
And the (...)
RIYADH — Jhon Duran struck twice and Cristiano Ronaldo added another as Al Nassr secured a dominant 3-0 victory over Esteghlal FC in the second leg of their AFC Champions League Elite 2024/25 Round of 16 tie at King Saud University Stadium on (...)
Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani has emphasized the urgent need for a diplomatic agreement between the United States and Iran, reaffirming that Qatar would not support any military escalation in the region.
"There is (...)
RIYADH — Cristiano Ronaldo did not travel with Al-Nassr's squad to Iran for their AFC Champions League Round of 16 first-leg match against Esteghlal on Monday, according to local media reports.
The decision to rest the Portuguese captain was made (...)
When US President Donald Trump wanted someone to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin last week to open negotiations for a potential deal to end the Russia-Ukraine war, he didn't dispatch his secretary of state.
The man he sent to the Kremlin to (...)
A much-rotated Al Nassr Club held Persepolis to a goalless draw on Monday, leaving the Iranian side's AFC Champions League Elite 2024/25 knockout stage hopes hanging in the balance.
The draw moved Persepolis into eighth place in the West Zone (...)
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday to "finish the job" against Iran with the support of US President Donald Trump.
Netanyahu was speaking alongside US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is visiting Israel on his first (...)
Israel's prime minister has said he is working to make US President Donald Trump's plan to remove and resettle Gaza's population "a reality".
Benjamin Netanyahu said he was cooperating with the US on a "common strategy" for the Palestinian territory (...)
The first of two vessels carrying 1,000 tons of a Chinese-made chemical that could be a key component in fuel for Iran's military missile program has anchored outside the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas on Thursday, ship tracking data shows. It could (...)
When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Washington and meets President Donald Trump later this week, there will be some warm hugs and shared laughs. But that will not be all.
Trump and Modi have developed a strong personal rapport over the (...)
LONDON — Donald Trump's plan for the US to "take over" and "own" Gaza, resettling its population in the process, is not going to happen. It requires the co-operation of Arab states that have rejected it.
They include Jordan and Egypt — countries (...)
Two senior Iranian judges were killed on Saturday morning when an unidentified armed assailant opened fire outside the Supreme Court in central Tehran, state media reported.
According to the state-run IRNA news agency, the judges were killed (...)
Italian journalist Cecilia Sala has been freed from an Iranian prison and is on a plane home, a spokesperson for the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said Wednesday. Sala had been reporting in Iran's capital when she was "stopped by Tehran (...)
Italy has summoned Iran's ambassador to demand the immediate release of an Italian journalist who was detained in Tehran in December, as the government and opposition ramp up public pressure on the politically sensitive case.
Cecilia Sala, a (...)
Jimmy Carter, the former peanut farmer who tried to restore virtue to the White House after the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, then rebounded from a landslide defeat to become a global advocate of human rights and democracy, has died at age (...)
Jimmy Carter, who died at the age of 100, swept to power promising never to lie to the American people.
In the turbulent aftermath of Watergate, the former peanut farmer from Georgia pardoned Vietnam draft evaders and became the first US leader to (...)
Israel's defense minister has for the first time acknowledged that Israel killed Hamas's political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran in July.
Israel Katz made the comments in a speech vowing to target the heads of the Iran-backed Houthi movement in (...)
Syria's new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, held talks with senior Arab diplomats on Monday, signaling growing regional engagement and cooperation following the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad on December 8.
Sharaa, whose group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) led (...)
Activity at Russia's Hmeimim Air Base, a strategic hub that played a pivotal role in the Syrian civil war since 2015, has significantly declined amid the collapse of regime forces and shifting dynamics in the region.
Following its establishment as a (...)
