The city of Bazargan, located in West Azerbaijan Province at Iran’s northwestern tip near the Turkish border, is drawing renewed attention as both a vital trade hub and a growing tourism destination.
Iran’s Interior Ministry announced that around 320,000 foreign students have enrolled in Iranian schools for the 2025–2026 academic year, down from 700,000 last year, following the departure of nearly 280,000 Afghan students and their families as part of the government’s repatriation program.
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has prepared new sanctions against Russia, Reuters has reported, citing an unnamed U.S. official and another person familiar with the matter.
Nima Kianpour, a former bodybuilding champion and experienced coach from Khuzestan province, southern Iran, died suddenly from a heart attack while training on the evening of Saturday, local sports officials reported.
Ukrainian residents may face heating failures this winter and plants may fail to cope with rising electricity prices and will have to close, The New York Times (NYT) has reported.
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has announced it is withdrawing all its forces from Turkey to northern Iraq as part of a peace process with Ankara, bringing an end to a months-long disarming process following a four-decade armed conflict that killed tens of thousands of people.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has stated that U.S. officials are getting input on a possible United Nations resolution or international agreement to authorize a multinational force in Gaza and will discuss the issue in Qatar.
United States President Donald Trump has stated that he won’t waste time meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin again unless an accord on the war in Ukraine is likely.
Egypt will send a special team to the Gaza Strip to assist in the search for the bodies of deceased Israeli hostages, the Egyptian television has reported.
Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi has said Tehran is open to interaction with the US if Washington abandons its hegemonic and domineering behavior toward Iran.
Afghan and Pakistani negotiators met in Istanbul Saturday to address security issues and establish a lasting ceasefire along their shared border after an outbreak of unexpectedly intense bloody clashes.
An informed source in London has told Iran's IRNA New Agency that the UK Court of Appeal has agreed to refer the Crescent case to the country's Supreme Court, effectively delaying the confiscation of a historic building owned by Iran’s Oil Industry Pension Fund.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman said the recent advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Palestine underscores the need to end the “ongoing impunity” enjoyed by Israel for crimes perpetrated in Gaza.
EU leaders have swerved a decision on using Russia’s frozen assets to fund Ukraine’s defence, despite a plea from President Volodymyr Zelensky to take swift action to make Moscow pay for its war.
The spokesman for Iran’s Ministry of Defense said the country’s military capabilities have significantly improved following the 12-day conflict earlier this year, asserting that Israel is now more vulnerable to Iran’s offensive power.
India’s top importer of Russian oil, the conglomerate Reliance Industries Ltd, has announced that it will abide by Western sanctions, ending several days of speculation about how the company will manage new measures targeting Russia’s two largest oil companies.
The demining of Gaza and the disposal of unexploded mines and shells left in the Palestinian enclave after two years of Israeli military operations could take about 30 years, a representative of an international non-governmental organization operating under the UN auspices has announced.
An international security troops to be put in place in the Gaza Strip under a ceasefire accord will have to be made up of countries that Tel Aviv is "comfortable with", U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated on Friday during a visit to Israel.
