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UNSC deplores North Korea’s missile test
The United Nations Security Council urges its members to ‘redouble efforts’ to enforce bans against Pyongyang after its weekend ballistic missile test.

The United Nations Security Council urges its members to ‘redouble efforts’ to enforce bans against Pyongyang after its weekend ballistic missile test.

Hundreds of American rabbis and cantors have signed a letter, calling David Friedman’s ideology “extreme” and unrepresentative of America.

Protesters pour out into streets en masse to confront regime forces on the sixth anniversary of a popular uprising to oust the House of Khalifah.

US National Security Adviser Michael Flynn has resigned over allegations that he had contacts with Russia.

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin voices support for the full annexation of the occupied West Bank.

Iraqi forces have intercepted the escape of 200 Daesh terrorists attempting to flee the city of Tal Afar and enter Syria.

The European Union acknowledges that the damaging impact of Brexit will be less severe than originally thought.

Watch drone footage of Iran’s biggest solar power plant project recently launched in the country's western province of Hamadan.

“Unhappiness” rises in the Trump administration, says a senior White House official as pressure mounts on the president to dismiss Michael Flynn over Russia contact.

Electricity is restored throughout most of Iran’s Khuzestan province, says the National Disaster Management Organization.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he cannot “lecture” President Donald Trump over his controversial travel ban on seven Muslim–majority countries.

At least 13 Daesh commanders are killed in airstrikes by the Iraqi Air Force, with reports of Baghdadi possibly being injured.

The Pentagon says Washington’s commitment to protecting the homeland and its allies against North Korea is "ironclad."

An Iranian MP says 8 Iranian sailors, freed from captivity in Somalia, are now in Senegal.

Turkey again urges a safe zone in northern Syria, saying it should include a “no-fly” zone.

The Iranian president is to set off for a day-long visit to Oman and Kuwait later this week.

Japan’s Sojitz Corporation has signed a basic agreement with Iran to study the production of steel sheets in the country’s southeastern port of Chabahar.

A commentator says US president Donald Trump is not going to represent a significant qualitative change in foreign policy because he is bound with the politics of the deep state as his predecessor was.