
POLITICS
SNP leader warns of EU exit backlash
Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon warns of "strong backlash" if the UK decides to withdraw from the European Union.

Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon warns of "strong backlash" if the UK decides to withdraw from the European Union.

An Iranian oil industry official says the country has acquired technology to build offshore drilling rigs.

Bangladesh says it will be working to bring Bangladeshi migrants at foreign camps or those stranded at sea back to the country.

A senior Hezbollah official says the Lebanese resistance movement is protecting Lebanon against the Takfiri ISIL terrorists.

A new study says that the war in Afghanistan has killed almost 100,000 people since 2001.

Iran’s Mahan Air will begin Wednesday using the first of eight Airbus aircraft purchased recently on the international route, the Fars news agency reported.

Ukraine Contact Group is expected to hold a meeting on restoring previously-reached peace accords.

Iran's top military official says ISIL terrorists do not dare approach Iranian borders.

Undercover US agents smuggled mock explosives and weapons through 95 percent of US airport checkpoints, a report shows.

The Yemeni media say that Riyadh has sent large quantities of weapons to al-Qaeda terrorists in Yemen.

Tehran rejects reports that over a dozen Iranian military advisers have been killed in an ISIL attack in Iraq's Anbar Province.

The UN warns of a humanitarian disaster in Iraq, calling for more international aid to the war-hit nation.

Amnesty slams Australia for the large number of indigenous youth in juvenile detention centers.

Iranian President Rouhani says certain regional states that support terrorism in Syria will themselves fall victim to it.

The Renewable Energy Organization of Iran (SUNA) will buy 80 wind turbines this year for power generation, SUNA’s Iraj Hersini says.

An analyst says the United States and the European Union are bent to derail the Minsk Agreement on Ukraine crisis.

Shooting incidents and murders have been rising in New York City over the past two years, officials say.

Muslim Rohingya women have been gang raped at camps in Thailand and Myanmar, media say.