Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has blamed the United States and its allies in the Middle East for the spread of extremism and terrorism in the region.

Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani says bids to coordinate and fund acts of terrorism are led from a concentrated base of support, saying the campaign against the menace should likewise be carried out through coordinated regional efforts.

Following years of experiments on interspecies cloning, Iranian scientists have successfully cloned a mouflon, an endangered species of the wild sheep, using a domestic sheep as a surrogate mother.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has secretly paid multiple visits to the home of an American-Israeli Hollywood producer, one in the presence of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman says the United States is ready to discuss additional security assistance to Israel in the wake of the Iran nuclear agreement.

The number of civilian casualties in the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan has reached a record high in the first half of this year, the United Nations says.

ISIL terrorists have managed to capture a key town in the central Homs province, a UK-based monitoring group says.

Eight more people have been killed in a fresh airstrike by the Saudi Arabia on Yemen’s northwestern Hajjah province.

A senior Iranian official has reaffirmed the country’s policy of support for its allies and friends in the region.

Independent US Senator Angus King has announced that he would vote in favor of the conclusion of nuclear negotiations between Iran and the world powers because other options are “unrealistic” or “dangerous.”

Iran’s deputy minister of industry, mine and trade says the country has plans to attract USD 29 billion of investment in its mines following the removal of sanctions imposed on Tehran over its civilian nuclear program.

Grand Sheikh of Al Azhar stressed that there is not such disagreement between Shia and Sunni which leads to excommunication of either from religion.

Following the killing of 18-month old Palestinian toddler in an arson attack by Zionist settlers in West Bank, Iranian children in the holy city of Qom hold protest rally condemning the crime by the Zionist regime.

Iranian Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi says while there is widespread insecurity and a campaign of terror in some regional countries, some of them neighboring Iran, the Islamic Republic enjoys exemplary security within its borders.

it's clear that the coalition is killing civilians, but that there is little transparency or willingness from countries involved in the bombing to account for it.