The number of Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land have doubled in the last 54 months, UN Commission on Human Rights member Cees Flinterman said today.

DAESH fighters executed 75 members of the Sahwat (Awakening) Forces and the Iraqi army in Hit in west Anbar in the city's square, eye witnesses reported.

Iran condemned Israel’s latest decision to temporarily close the al-Aqsa Mosque to Muslim worshippers that has made it off limits to Palestinians.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the rising threats of terrorism, extremism and narcotics across the Middle East are rooted in trans-regional interference.

Iran’s extensive efforts to improve the country’s human rights situation have faced serious challenges, including politically-motivated meddlesome policies, says an Iranian official.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has congratulated Dilma Rousseff on her victory in Brazil’s presidential election to secure a second term in office.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, US Secretary of State John Kerry and outgoing EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton will hold talks on Tehran’s nuclear issue in Oman early next month.

“Delineating the philosophy of Ashura is of main duties shouldered by Shinni and Shia clerics,” said one of the Sunni clerics of Raz and Jargalan.

Yemeni tribal leaders have given an ultimatum to the country’s president, saying he must form a new government in the next ten days.

More than 170,000 people have been forced out of their homes in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal regions due to a fresh army offensive against pro-Taliban militants.

Iraq’s most senior Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, has called on Baghdad to rush to the aid of the country’s Sunni tribes in their fight against the ISIL Takfiris.

The UN says the death toll from fighting between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russia forces in eastern Ukraine has exceeded 4,000 in over six months despite a recent truce between the warring sides.

An Egyptian Shia activist has invited Al-Azhar’s Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayyeb to attend the Ashura mourning ceremony at Cairo’s Imam Hussein (AS) Mosque.

The local officials have mobilized some 25,000 security forces along with thousands of volunteers to step up security in the holy city of Karbala.

Representatives of more than 60 charities from 27 countries have gathered in Doha to raise funds for the redevelopment of the Gaza Strip and other aid for Palestinians. Delegates at the "First Humanitarian Forum to Support Palestinians" organised by the Qatar Charity are spending two days discussing the catastrophe facing Palestinians, not only in ...

US Catholic bishops have called on Western countries involved in the nuclear negotiations with Iran to take into account the power of fatwa (edict) issued by Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on the prohibition of nuclear weapons.

The Syrian envoy to the UN has criticized the world body’s double standards on the fight against terrorism, stressing that terror threats cannot be dealt with through a selective approach.

Iraqi soldiers, backed by volunteer forces, have liberated two areas in the northern strategic oil town of Baiji from the ISIL Takfiri militants, army sources say.