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During the last two rounds of talks between Tehran and world powers in Austria, the Iranian team submitted new written proposals, about 80% of which were included in the existing draft, a European source says.

At least 84 murders and 23 attempted murders have been registered in Al-Hawl refugee camp on the US-controlled Syrian territory in just one year, the head of the Russian-Syrian coordination center for the return of refugees says.

Iranian footballer Sardar Azmoun, who plays for the Russian club Zenit Saint Petersburg, has been voted as the best player of 2021 in Russia.

A suicide bomber was killed at the gate of a passport office in the Afghan capital Kabul on Thursday, while several others were injured in the explosion.

US intelligence agencies have assessed that Saudi Arabia is now actively manufacturing its own ballistic missiles with the help of China, CNN reported.

Moscow and Beijing are jointly working to develop state-of-the-art weapons as they cooperate in the security area, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.

Turkey and Qatar have inked an agreement to jointly operate Kabul International Airport in Afghanistan, diplomatic sources told Anadolu News Agency on Thursday.

Negotiations between world powers and Iran on salvaging the 2015 nuclear deal will resume in Vienna on December 27, European Union deputy foreign policy chief Enrique Mora says.

Israeli forces have shot dead another young Palestinian man in the West Bank.

Four senior Israeli officials who attended meetings in Jerusalem with US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told Axios they came away reassured that Washington is ready to take a harder line on Iran if necessary and to take Tel Aviv’s views into account. He has sketched out three possible near-term scenarios on Iran’s nuclear program, according to Israeli officials.

Turkey says a US diplomat has been detained by Turkish authorities on suspicion of selling a fake passport to a Syrian national who attempted to use his new ID to board a flight to Germany.

Negotiations on the revival of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, would resume before the end of this year, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says.

Foreign Minister of the Yemeni National Salvation Government says Iran’s late ambassador Hassan Irloo entered Sana’a when no one was with Yemeni people, and everyone in the world was watching.

The World Food Programme (WFP) has announced it has been “forced” to cut aid to Yemen due to funding shortfall. The WFP has warned there will be a surge in hunger in the war-torn country in the coming months.

An Emirati government agency had placed spyware from Israeli company NSO Group onto the phone of Jamal Khashoggi’s wife months before his murder in Turkey, according to a new report.

A Palestinian man has burned to death in his car after he was shot at by Israeli soldiers near a military checkpoint in north of the West Bank.

Referring to Washington’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, Russia’s representative in Vienna talks says the decision to pull out from the landmark agreement was like shooting in one of the US legs.

Some executive bodies in Riyadh are to blame for a delay in allowing Iran’s late ambassador to Yemen, who was suffering from coronavirus infection, to exit the Saudi-besieged country, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says. He added Tehran will lodge a formal protest over the procrastination in accordance with international law.

Iran’s “A Hero”, Japan’s “Drive My Car”, Norway’s “The Worst Person in the World” and Italy’s “The Hand of God” are among the 15 films that will advance to the next round of voting in the Oscars Best International Feature Film race, the Academy has announced.

There are only "some weeks" left to revive the nuclear deal with Iran if it continues its nuclear activities at the current pace, US negotiator Rob Malley says. Iran says an agreement to revive the nuclear deal is within reach, adding this depends on the goodwill of the United States to lift the anti-Tehran sanctions.

Hopes for a deal with the United States to limit NATO expansion in Eastern Europe are slim, Russian President says. Vladimir Putin argues that even a signed agreement could be torn up by the American side at a moment’s notice.

The guarantors of the Astana process (Moscow, Tehran and Ankara) see no alternatives to the Syrian Constitutional Committee and are determined to furnish all-round support for its activities, a Russian diplomat said after consultations with Iranian and Turkish delegations.

The Saudi-led coalition has carried out air strikes on the international airport of the Yemeni capital Sanaa. An official has confirmed UN aid flights has been halted.

Hundreds of demonstrators marched towards the shuttered United States Embassy in Kabul on Tuesday, calling on Washington to release Afghanistan’s frozen assets.

Tens of the US House Democrats have warned about "imminent mass starvation" in Afghanistan, calling on US President Joe Biden to open up access to the impoverished country’s economic reserves.