Urmia Lake, the biggest salt lake in the Middle East and the sixth largest saltwater is still beautiful despite draining. The following photos show Rahmanlu and Danalu wharves in south-east part of the lake which were expected to be the most beautiful wharves among others around the lake.
The US Supreme Court said on Friday it will decide on the legality of President Donald Trump's latest travel ban affecting citizens from six Muslim majority countries plus North Korea and Venezuela.
The number of civilians killed by the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria tripled in 2017, as battles raged in extremist-held urban areas, a monitor said on Friday.
The Philippines suspended sending workers to Kuwait on Friday, a day after President Rodrigo Duterte said abuse by employers there had driven several domestic helpers to suicide.
Hezbollah criticized the Lebanese government on Friday for allowing cinemas to screen Stephen Spielberg's film The Post despite calls for a ban because of the director's links to Israel.
Informed Palestinian sources revealed Thursday that a number of Arab countries, including Gulf states, have refused to transfer aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) following the latter’s rejection of the US peace plan.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has omitted the tiny peninsular Arab Gulf state of Qatar from a world map exhibited at a recently opened museum in Abu Dhabi, according to a veteran observer of Gulf affairs reported by Anadolu.
Saudi Arabia will be overtaken by the US as the world’s leading energy producer in the next twelve months according to the latest monthly report from the International Energy Agency (IEA).
Extending gratitude over efforts by Islamic Republic of Iran for materializing Islamic solidarity, prominent Iraqi cleric hailed the religious freedom of Iranian Sunni community in a conference on Islamic unity held in Iraq on Wednesday 17 January.
Ambassadors, foreign diplomats and Iranian political figures in Belarus commemorated Iranian sailors who recently lost their lives in Sanchi oil tanker incident.
Iranian former nuclear diplomacy team in nuclear negotiations has written an article published on Reuters, sternly warned the US government of the fallouts of withdrawal from the nuclear deal with Iran.
At least eight Saudi forces have been killed in the latest round of retaliatory attacks by Yemeni soldiers and fighters from allied forces on Saudi Arabia’s southwestern regions of Najran, Jizan and Asir.
Turkish defense minister has said the country has no option but starting operation against Kurdish forces in Afrin before starting the cross-border shelling on the Syrian enclave.