The International Criminal Court (ICC) has rejected a request from former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s son, Saif Al-Islam, to have the international arrest warrant against him dropped.

Iran's Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alawi said the country's security forces managed to identify 11 terrorist teams during the Arbaeen season.

Tens of thousands of fish have died in the Euphrates River to the south of Baghdad as a result of an unidentified disease.

Iran voiced defiance against returning US sanctions with the country’s top banker saying that all necessary arrangements to continue trade with partners had already been made.

Describing the Saudi bombing of a school bus in Yemen that killed 51 people as “a horror show”, US President Donald Trump admitted that Riyadh’s misuse of weapons supplied by America was the cause of death.

India says it expects a major jump in its exports to Iran in light of a sanctions waiver mechanism provided by the United States to maintain purchases of oil from the Islamic Republic.

The United Nations must hold the United States to account for its "illegal" move to reinstate sanctions on Tehran, Iran's Ambassador to the United Nations Gholamali Khoshroo says.

Iranian officials say the country has the required means to ward off the impacts of US sanctions, stressing that a major share of those means could specifically be helpful once the Islamic Republic looks internally.

Iran has decisively rejected Denmark's claims that an Iranian intelligence service had tried to carry out an assassination plot on the Danish soil, saying the Israeli spy agency, Mossad, was behind such allegations.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says Iran will break the sanctions imposed by the United States on Tehran as well as on countries that do business with it, shortly after a round of anti-Iran sanctions by America took effect.