Russia says the nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 group of world powers are going ahead on the right track and that both sides have agreed on “some 95 percent” of a final deal.

Chairman of Expediency Council Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said here on Sunday that the Americans have admitted that the coalition against the terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as Daesh) will be defeated without Iran's help.

In an out loud protest against a hijab ban by basketball’s governing body, the Qatari players have pulled out of the women's basketball competition at the Asian Games after refusing to remove their Islamic headscarf.

Some few days ago, US Congress overwhelmingly approved an Obama administration request for authorization to train and arm “rebel” forces in Syria fighting the government of President Bashar al-Assad.

Vice-Speaker of Majlis (Iranian Parliament) Mohammad Hassan Abutorabifard said Saturday that the US is trying to register the defeat of Daesh terrorist group in its own name.

Pakistan’s unpaid electricity bills to Iran has exceeded USD 100 million as Islamabad fails to settle its debt due to the US-led banking restrictions against the Islamic Republic, a report says.

A senior Iranian Foreign Ministry official says terrorism can be uprooted in the Middle East only through a realistic approach.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has met with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in New York to discuss the progress of Tehran’s nuclear talks with the P5+1 group.

“Muslim clerics should have an obvious and exhaustive plan for standing against Takfiri groups,” said Head of the Friendship and Welfare Party in Mauritania Parliament.

Some twelve people, including two soldiers, have been killed and several others injured in two separate bomb attacks near the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, official sources say.

The office of the Supreme Leader of Islamic Revolution has published a letter His Eminence sent to Ayatollah Sayyed Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahroudi on the passing of his mother.

Thousands of Kurds and their supporters have gathered on the streets of French capital, Paris, denouncing ISIL’s atrocities in Iraq and Syria, Press TV reports.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has travelled to Russia to participate at the 4th summit of the Caspian Sea littoral states.

A former Saudi army officer has announced the formation of a movement aimed at unseating the Al Saud dynasty in Saudi Arabia.

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused the US of resorting to "military intervention" in order to secure its own interests.

Ansarullah revolutionaries in Yemen have signed a security agreement that calls for them to disarm and pull out of the areas they have seized over the past months.

Syrian Kurdish refugees continue to struggle for survival in Turkey after being forced from their homes by the Takfiri ISIL militants in Syria.

US-led strikes against ISIL terrorists in the crisis-hit Syria are aimed at “eventually” targeting the Syrian government’s positions, an American investigative journalist says.

An Egyptian court has postponed the verdict against eight Muslim Brotherhood members accused of participating in anti-government demonstrations in the North African country.