A senior Iranian cleric has warned Saudi Arabia against executing a death sentence recently handed down to prominent Saudi Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr.

Russia has dismissed sanctions against it over its alleged involvement in the Ukrainian crisis, stating that neither the United States nor the European Union (EU) can isolate Moscow.

The Pentagon says the US and its allies have dropped more than 1,700 bombs in air assault on the ISIL terrorist group in Iraq and Syria.

Pakistani religious scholars have censured Saudi Arabia for the death sentence handed down to prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr, Press TV reports.

Iran’s Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance Ali Tayyeb-Nia says the Islamic Republic and Qatar plan to set up a joint investment committee, stressing the need for the expansion of economic ties between the two countries.

Head of Iran’s delegation at expert-level nuclear talks in Vienna says representatives of the Islamic Republic and the P5+1 group conducted two days of useful, explicit negotiations.

The Syrian army has flushed out Takfiri militants from a strategic town nine months after it was seized by the terrorists.