Iranian Media Highlights

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım urged European states to contribute to hosting refugees and combatting terror, saying that the security of Europe is dependent on that of Turkey.

Saad Hariri, the Prime Minister of Lebanon, in a message offered his nation’s condolences to the Islamic Republic of Iran on the death of ex-President Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.

A car bomb explosion in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad has killed and wounded dozens of people according to media reports.

Local sources announced that the ISIS leader has appointed three men as his probable successors.

An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale in Iran’s southern city of Khonj has killed four Afghan workers and injured four others.

Eleven children were injured on Wednesday when a man with a knife attacked them at a kindergarten in China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

While all anti-government militants have been evacuated along with their families from Eastern Aleppo, only 900 residents of Shiite-majority villages of Foua and Kefraya have been taken out of militants’ siege.

A combined-cycle power plant will be constructed in Iran’s central city of Damghan in cooperation with Germans, the local Governor announced.

On the verge of the announcement of currency reform in India, people have bought more than four tons of gold, the Indian Directorate General of Safeguards, Customs and Central Excise reported.

The British website Daily Mail has predicted that the Saudi King Salman and his son Mohammed, the deputy crown prince, will be overthrown in a coup.

In recent months, Saudi Arabia has been showing signals of retreat from the war it waged nearly two years ago on the impoverished people of Yemen.

Turkmenistan to Be Fined for Cutting Gas Supply to Iran: Official

Nearly 1,300 civilians have managed to escape from several villages in Wadi al-Bardi region in Western Ghouta, which are still under the control of Fatah al-Sham Front (previously known as the al-Nusra Front), local sources disclosed.

The supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been admiring him in social media for wearing a jacket he had earlier worn in public appearance.

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem is scheduled to pay a visit to Iran on Saturday while diplomatic efforts to end fighting in Syria have gained momentum in recent days with the announcement of a ceasefire in the Arab country.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani confirmed his participation at a trilateral meeting with his Russian and Turkish counterparts to be held in the Kazakh capital Astana on the Syrian crisis.

Two blasts have rocked the central part of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, killing at least 18 people, according to police.

Azerbaijan plans to significantly ease the visa regime for Iranian citizens in 2017, Azerbaijan’s Economy Minister Shahin Mustafayev has said.

The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has reportedly banned Christmas celebrations, and has ordered citizens to worship his grandmother Kim Jong-Suk instead of Jesus Christ on Christmas day.

Iranian Defence Minister has told a Russian TV channel that Saudi Arabia should not be allowed to take part in the Syrian peace process.

Yılmaz Bulut, a senior member of Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP), has lost his life in an armed attack in Çankaya, near the Turkish capital of Ankara.

The water supply of Syrian capital has been cut for a few days after being polluted by militants.

A Mufti affiliated with the ISIS terrorist group who had allowed the terrorists to shell the northern Iraqi city of Mosul was killed by the city’s residents.

Hours after the murder of Russian ambassador to Turkey, a high ranking Russian diplomat was also found dead from gunshot wounds in Moscow.

The street housing the Russian Embassy building in Ankara will be renamed after Andrey Karlov, who was assassinated on Dec. 19, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu announced.