Turkish PM to visit Iran to discuss ties: TV
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will arrive in the Iranian capital of Tehran on Tuesday evening for talks on bilateral relations, the state IRIB TV reported Monday.
Iran, world powers to resume nuclear talks in New York
Iran and the world powers will resume nuclear negotiations in New York later this month, the official IRNA news agency reported on Monday.
Israel refuses to confirm attack on Syrian missile base
Israeli security sources declined to confirm on Monday an alleged Israeli attack of a Syrian military base in Latakia.
Iran willing to mediate for improved ties between two Koreas: South Korean Official
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani had expressed his willingness to play a mediator's role in improving relations between South Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), a South Korean parliamentary official now visiting the Persian country said Monday.
Iran, ROK call for new chapter in bilateral ties
Iran and the Republic of Korea ( ROK) called for opening new chapter in bilateral relations, Press TV reported on Monday.
125 killed in month-long battles of Iraq's Anbar
Up to 125 people were killed and 541 others wounded in month-long battles in Iraq's volatile province of Anbar between anti-government Sunni tribes and Iraqi army, officials said on Monday.
Iran says to continue support for Syria regime
Iran will never bow to pressure and will never stop supporting Syrian government, Iran's Minister of Labor, Cooperatives and Welfare Ali Rabiei said on Sunday.
Kidnapped Egyptian envoys released in Libya
The Libyan interior ministry on Sunday received the five Egyptian envoys who were abducted in the past two days in the Libyan capital of Tripoli after the kidnappers released them, al-Arabiya TV reported.
Syrian gov't offers to let women, children leave besieged city: mediator
Representatives of the Syrian government said that women and children are allowed to leave the besieged area in the city of Homs, UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said on Sunday.
Sacred memory
A visitor views an exhibit on the rise of Nazism at Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust museum and memorial, in Jerusalem on Sunday. International Holocaust Remembrance Day will be marked on Monday. The day is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1945. Photo: CFP