
FOREIGN POLICY
Russia's Syria campaign ineffective: US
Russia’s military campaign in Syria is not effective as only a small portion of their strikes have targeted Daesh’s positions, a top US official says.

Russia’s military campaign in Syria is not effective as only a small portion of their strikes have targeted Daesh’s positions, a top US official says.

Hezbollah’s deputy leader says the conflicts in the Middle East are aimed at undermining the Palestinian cause.

Hezbollah fighters kill nine militants with the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front in Lebanon.

The United Nations special envoy for Syria says the UN, Russia and the United States will hold talks over the Syria crisis in Geneva.

The latest market data show that Iran has replaced Kuwait as the fifth largest oil supplier to India.

Attackers blow up a Catholic church in Yemen’s southern city of Aden.

Israeli military forces have shot and killed another Palestinian in the occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil.

Gazprom says it has started talks with Iran over a scheme to exchange natural gas for exports to Armenia.

Russia’s foreign minister says Moscow has long known about Turkey’s complicity with Daesh.

US Secretary of State John Kerry says he will go to Moscow next week, for talks with Russian leaders over Syria and Ukraine.

Those making Islamophobic remarks under the pretext of fighting terrorism are themselves supporters of the scourge, Rouhani says.

Syrian pro-government forces make fresh gains against militants in Aleppo’s eastern countryside.

The British Chambers of Commerce has downgraded its growth forecasts for the next three years.

Donald Trump says he is not ashamed of his proposal for a "total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States."

Gas flow from Iran to Turkey has returned to normal after a temporary fall in pressure at a dispatching station, officials from the two countries say.

A bomb explodes at a Shia mosque in Baghdad, killing at least five people.

A growing number of Britons have signed a petition calling for banning the U-S Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump from entering the UK after his "hate speech" on Muslims.

A trap bomb explosion kills one security officer in Iran's southeast.