
DEFENSE
‘IRGC duty-bound to monitor Iran’s periphery’
Monitoring Iran’s borders is a duty of the IRGC and is not meant to provoke other countries, says a senior commander.

Monitoring Iran’s borders is a duty of the IRGC and is not meant to provoke other countries, says a senior commander.

President Erdogan unveils plans for a safe zone of 5,000 sq. km. inside Syria, as Turkish fighter jets bomb northern Syria again.

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both prematurely said the recent explosion in New York was a bombing, but the CNN only criticized one of them.

The incidents follow the first leak of 2,116 reports in August, revealing the trauma and abuse inflicted on refugees held by Australia on the remote Pacific island of Nauru.

A political analyst says American military officials are trying to sabotage a recent agreement between the US and Russia on a ceasefire in Syria.

Everyone should avoid stirring up tensions in East Asia, says President Rouhani of Iran.

Moscow says the militants are recuperating under the calm created by an ongoing ceasefire and planning to relaunch their offensive.

Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson says Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are political “dinosaurs".

The results of Sunday parliamentary elections put Vladimir Putin on track for a fourth term as Russia's president in 2018 polls.

Chancellor Angela Merkel, who considers running for a fourth term next year, has come under fire since almost 1.1 million refugees arrived in Germany in 2015.

The FBI is looking for possible links to terrorism in Saturday night’s stabbing spree at a Minnesota shopping mall.

UK business confidence reaches its lowest in the past four years in the wake of Brexit.

The 17th Non-Aligned Movement summit wraps up with calls on the UN to include more states in the Security Council.

US airstrikes that killed dozens of Syrian troops could not have been a technical error, says Syria’s envoy to the UN.

Hillary Clinton censures three attacks carried out in the US states of New Jersey, New York and Minnesota earlier.

Attacking an army that is battling terrorism means backstabbing, says Iran’s Amir-Abdollahian.

US President Barack Obama’s call on black voters is “out of desperation” as there is no enthusiasm to vote for Hillary Clinton.

Syrian troops open fire at an American drone plane over the country’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr.