Middle East

An Iranian oil official said the country is ready to help restore balance to the oil market but did not hold out much hope given that some producers are pumping crude at record levels.

The ISIS terrorist group has reportedly banned football referees in one of its Syrian strongholds and set new football rules as the previous ones were not in line with Islam’s Sharia.

Although Yemen has been gripped by war, bombing, and bloodshed for the past one year and a half, the country is replete with secrets and wonders that are not known to many.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi rejected the recent anti-Iran allegations raised by Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir as “too boring and repetitive”, calling on the Saudi regime to change its “unconstructive” regional policies.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry categorically condemned recent remarks by Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister against Tehran, describing them as “baseless” and “repetitive”.

A major agreement on settling the situation in Syria’s Aleppo is at hand, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry said the continued military presence of Turkey in the Syrian territories without the Damascus government’s consent will aggravate the situation in the region, and called for an immediate halt to the Turkish military operations in the Arab country.

The three Persian Gulf islands of Abu Musa and the Greater and Lesser Tunbs are indispensable parts of Iran, the country’s Foreign Ministry spokesman underlined, dismissing recent anti-Iran claims about the islands raised by the Arab League chief.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says atrocities by Saudi Arabia and Israel have worked to even alienate their own allies.

Several ISIS elements have been killed and wounded in an armed infighting in the Iraqi town of Hawija.

Statistics released by Turkey indicate a huge number of marriages between Turkish men and Syrian girls, mostly refugees.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Monday strongly condemned the attack carried out by terrorist groups in the Iraqi province of Karbala, expressing the hope that terrorism would be eradicated in the region.

A senior Iranian lawmaker says the terrorists arrested by Iranian security forces have revealed “invaluable” information as to the patronage they received from Saudi Arabia.

Massoud Sadr-Mohammadi, an expert in Turkish and Caucasian affairs, recently warned against a plot hatched by Israel and the US to disintegrate the Middle East and create tension and instability in the region by abusing Kurd people.

Following the discovery of a bomb implanted in one of the mosques in the Iraqi town of al-Shirqat in northern Salahuddin province, the ISIS terrorist group’s Friday prayers were cancelled.

The Iraqi government says it may consider shipping crude through Iran if talks with the local Kurdish administration on oil revenue sharing fall apart.

Lionel Messi, the Argentinian football legend who plays as a forward for Spanish club FC Barcelona and the Argentina national team, signed the T-shirt of one of his fans who supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani said the Saudi regime is playing a negative role in most regional issues, Yemen in particular, stressing that Saudis have failed to reach their goals in the region.

A recent video shows four Syrian soldiers in orange clothes apparently being shot dead by a number of old members of the ISIS terrorist group.

Iraqi forces managed to recapture the northern town of Qayyarah from the grip of the Takfiri [extremist] ISIS terrorist group in their push to conduct a major liberation operation in the nearby city of Mosul.

Iranian Intelligence Minister Seyyed Mahmoud Alavi announced that his ministry has dissuaded hundreds of Iranian youth from joining the Takfiri terrorist groups, including the ISIS.

A shocking new video released by the ISIS terrorist group reportedly shows a number of children, including a British boy, executing prisoners with handguns in Syria.

Turkey’s prime minister has compared President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the Ottoman sultan who conquered Constantinople - modern-day Istanbul - centuries ago.

Turkish Foreign Ministry’s Representative in Istanbul Uğur Kenan İpek underlined the necessity for Tehran and Ankara to start a fresh round of mutual cooperation given the ‘golden’ opportunities lost in the past.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei highlighted the strong security in Iran despite crises and insecurity in the region.