Senior Iranian Sunni cleric has hailed the remarks by Supreme Leader at the beginning of the New Persian Year calling the guidelines as solution for domestic and international issues.

Israeli regime forces have release a footage which shows troops questioning a terrified 8-year-old boy in the West Bank wandering barefoot in search of a toy.

The Palestinian resistance movement has reported the assassinations of one of its senior officials by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip.

The United Nations has demanded Islamic Republic of Iran, Russia and Turkey to resume talks between the warring sides in Syria amid the wide struggle of the militants to break into capital Damascus.

The United States has imposed sanctions on 11 individuals and firms from China, North Korea and United Arab Emirates over transferring technology that could aid the Islamic Republic develop its ballistic missiles.

Bahraini teenage boy shot and injured by regime forces during a sit-in protest in support of Sheikh Isa Qassim succumbed to his wounds after two months in hospital.

Iraqi forces take command over Daesh-held area in central Mosul amid the major campaign to recapture the key city and withdraw ISIL terrorists from their last stronghold in Iraq.

First Friday prayer congregation in the Iranian New Year, 1396 at the University of Tehran

The head of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq stressed that political differences among officials must not affect the lives of the people and impair the country’s security apparatuses.

"Massive turnout in Iran’s next presidential election is decisive and demonstrates that the Islamic establishment is governed by the people," Hujjat al-Islam Seddiqi said.

A bipartisan group of US senators in Congress introduced a bill that would impose tighter sanctions against Iran over its ballistic missile tests and other non-nuclear activities.

Iran says it is negotiating with Russia to carry out joint natural gas development projects.

Iran has condemned as “selective and spiteful” the UN Human Rights Council's resolution to renew the mandate of the UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic, saying it was a politically-motivated move by a few countries abusing UN mechanisms.