Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has called for further development of economic ties and trade transactions between his country and Iran, underlining that the two countries should carry out joint economic plans and investment projects.

In a new move against militant groups, more than 200 Pakistani scholars have issued a decree stipulating that suicide attacks carried out by militant groups are against Islam.

The federal government expects a strong increase in German exports to Iran if sanctions against Tehran are removed after an anticipated completion of nuclear negotiations at the end of June, Der Spiegel says.

Former US secretary of defense Robert Gates says a military confrontation with Iran is not an alternative should nuclear negotiations with the country over its nuclear program fail.

Saudi Arabia has started advertising for eight new executioners to deal with the escalating number of death sentences being issued in the country.

Israeli regime forces have again clashed with protesting Ethiopian Jews who returned to the streets of Tel Aviv to denounce widespread racial discrimination against the minority group.

The ISIL Takfiri group’s recent attacks on the Iraqi city of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, has forced approximately 25,000 people to flee the city, the United Nations says.

At least two people have been killed in Saudi Arabia’s latest wave of air raids on the war-torn Arab country of Yemen.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has warned that Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen could pave the way for Takfiri militants through Somalia.

Taliban terror attack against a bus carrying Shia Muslims claims lives of 43 and more injuries in Karachi. This is the second of the deadliest attacks in Pakistan in 2015.