Russian investigators detained the technical director of the Piro-Ross company on Thursday, a newly released statement said, after a huge explosion at the military optics plant that has been shrouded in mystery.
Turkish intelligence agencies have, in an operation, gained access to a secret database of the Daesh terrorist group with the names of almost 10,000 so-called lone wolf terrorists, a Turkish newspaper has reported, citing security sources.
Kuwait has announced a ban on the film Barbie in a bid to protect “public ethics and social traditions”. It comes shortly after a Lebanese minister called for barring the movie from cinemas for “promoting homosexuality”.
Pakistan's President Arif Alvi has dissolved the National Assembly, or lower house of parliament, a first step in the countdown to the general election by mid-November.
US President Joe Biden’s administration has announced more discussions need to happen before a potential agreement to normalise relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel can be reached.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry has summoned the UK envoy to Tehran, Simon Shercliff, to protest against the diplomat’s "interventionist remarks" on the occasion of the Iranian National Reporter Day.
The United States had encouraged the Pakistani government in March 2022 to remove former Prime Minister Imran Khan from office over his neutrality on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to a classified Pakistani government document obtained by The Intercept.
Russia, wary of NATO’s eastward expansion, began a military campaign in Ukraine in February 2022 after the Western-leaning Kiev government turned a deaf ear to Moscow’s calls for its neighbor to maintain its neutrality. In the middle of the mayhem, Moscow and Kiev are trying to hammer out a peaceful solution to the conflict. Follow the latest about the Russia-Ukraine conflict here:
A Syrian reporter and two Syrian soldiers were killed on Wednesday by an explosive device in the country's southern Deraa governorate, Syrian state media reported.
Iranian military scientists have obtained the technical know-how to manufacture cruise missiles capable of traveling at supersonic speeds, Tasnim news agency reported on Wednesday.
The head of National Iranian Oil Company and deputy petroleum minister says Iran’s production of crude oil will surpass 3.5 million barrels per day by the end of September in a new blow to US sanctions on the Islamic Republic.
A former Iranian diplomat believes that the Taliban administration in Afghanistan will not back down in a dispute over Iran’s water share from the Helmand river with negotiations, suggesting that the Islamic Republic has to consider non-diplomatic ways.
A powerful explosion has rocked an optical equipment factory in the town of Sergiyev Posad outside of Moscow, with evacuation efforts being underway, the local authorities have confirmed. A total of 31 were wounded but a rising toll of casualties was feared, said governor Andrey Vorobyov.
US national security adviser Jake Sullivan has traveled to the United Arab Emirates after a visit to Saudi Arabia. The trip came amid Washington’s efforts to mend ties with the two Arab states and a recent American military buildup in West Asia.
Amid reports of “the demise of Lake Urmia”, a top Iranian geographer and climatologist says all previous efforts to save the lake in northwestern Iran were futile and wasted a huge amount of budget.
Syria’s deputy permanent representative to the UN says that US forces have supplied terrorists in the strategic al-Tanf area in southern Syria with chemical weapons and trained them how to use the lethal tools to incriminate Damascus.
