Oil Minister Jabar al-Luaibi said Iraq plans to increase production from oilfields in Kirkuk to one million barrels per day and has visited the Bai Hasan and Avana fields to order work be accelerated to restore operations soon, the ministry’s spokesman said on Nov. 12.
The EU took a step towards closer defense ties yesterday, with 23 states signing a landmark pact aiming to boost cooperation after Brexit and as Russia flexes its muscles to the east.
Torched villages and unharvested paddy fields stretch to the horizon in Myanmar's violence-gutted Rakhine state, where a dwindling number of Muslim Rohingya remain trapped in limbo after an army crackdown coursed through the region.
More governments are following the lead of Russia and China by manipulating social media and suppressing dissent online in a grave threat to democracy, a human rights watchdog said Nov. 14.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has rejected around 25,000 applications from Turkish citizens in relation to rights violations after the July 2016 coup attempt, according to a Justice Ministry official.
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has once again criticized the United States’ ongoing alliance with the People’s Protection Units (YPG), after reports that the Syrian Kurdish group made a deal with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) for the re-capture of Raqqa.
Prominent Sunni cleric from Mahabad, Iran’s West Azerbaijan Province, noted the new Islamic civilization since the beginning was based on rationality and philanthropy and it will be so till the end.
Manager of Nefaee’eh Sunni seminary in Iran’s city of Gonbad-e Kavus said building of a civilization is possible through cooperation of all members in a society and naturally building modern Islamic civilization summons efforts by all denominations.
A delegation from the Leader of the Islamic Revolution was dispatched Tuesday to the quake-hit areas in west of the country in order to visit the scene and file reports on the problems the quake-stricken people suffer from there.
Iranian Foreign Minister in his newly message released on Twitter praised the world for expressing sympathy and offering assistance over the deadly quake in western Iran.
A US appeals court in California on Monday let part of President Donald Trump's latest travel ban go into effect, ruling that the government can bar entry of people from six Muslim-majority countries if they have no connections to the United States.
n 1997, a landmark report by race equality think tank Runnymede Trust introduced the word “Islamophobia” into public discourse. Years later, and Islamophobia has become so prevalent that one politician claimed it has “passed the dinner table test”.
Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said his forces are working in close cooperation with the Army to help victims of a massive earthquake in western Iran that has killed nearly 450 people.
The European Union on Monday urged Saad al-Hariri to return to Lebanon, calling on all political forces inside the country to focus on the domestic agenda and warning Saudi Arabia against meddling.
Two Iranian movies named ‘The Wind Carried the Striped Pajama of Dad’ by Mohammad Sadeghi and ‘the Refugee Camp’ by Saeed Naghavian to be screened in the 22nd Radonezh film festival.
Iran men's national football team, domestically known as Team Melli, has defeated Venezuela in a friendly fixture as part of preparations for the 2018 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup.