
AFGHANISTAN
1000s of Afghans protest Shia killings
Thousands of Afghans hold a major demonstration in Ghazni Province to denounce slaughter of Hazara Shia Muslims.

Thousands of Afghans hold a major demonstration in Ghazni Province to denounce slaughter of Hazara Shia Muslims.

Iran says it has arrested more than 40 terrorists operatives and thwarted several terrorist plots nationwide.

Maldives says the state of emergency has been lifted due to improvement in the security situation.

The European Union blasts Turkey for failing to respect human rights and media freedom.

The EU says some issues raised by Britain’s Cameron for reform in the bloc are highly problematic.

Iran announces plan to build or buy oil refineries in other countries in order to guarantee long-term sale of its crude oil.

In a closed-door meeting, Obama and Netanyahu reportedly agreed to an increase in US military aid to Israel.

British foreign secretary says there is a high probability that the Russian flight was bombed by an ISIL supporter.

An oil-for-assets barter deal between Iran and Russia is still in force but low oil prices are preventing them from implementing the arrangement, a Russian official says.

The Palestinian movement Hamas says Israel’s recent abductions will fail to suppress Intifada.

Moscow rejects a report that accused Russian athletes of being involved in “systematic doping.”

Staffers of the Center for American Progress have criticized the think thank for hosting Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu.

Iran’s minister of communications and IT is in Moscow with a delegation of 70 traders as the two major allies fast-track their expansion of ties.

British Prime Minister David Cameron says the EU must agree to "irreversible changes" that would redefine the UK's relations with the block.

Army and volunteer forces are readying to fully liberate the central Iraqi city of Ramadi from Daesh terrorists.

At least 16 people are killed in two separate shooting attacks in the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero.

Syrian forces continue to deter militant attempts to seize a strategic area near a highway north of the capital, Damascus.

Former US congressman Dr. Ron Paul says unless the US shuts down the Federal Reserve System the world will experience a major economic crisis.