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Iran is ready to respond to any renewed military attack, the country’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said in comments carried ...

Iran seizes foreign tanker smuggling 2 million litres of fuel - The Gulf of Oman is a vital shipping route for oil produced ...

Iran said it had seized a foreign oil tanker in the Sea of Oman, suspected of carrying around 2 million liters of smuggled fuel, according to local media. Newsweek has reached out to the Iranian ...

Abandoned by the world and their own government, my family and the Iranian people relied on their strength to get through ...

Already burdensome red tape has only grown more complicated in Trump’s second term. Meet one artist who had to cancel four Colorado shows.

Afghans being forced out of Iran are grappling with an uncertain future in Afghanistan, where widespread poverty and severe restrictions on women and girls await.

Get ready to cope” was the message from an aid worker to women returning to Taliban rule in Afghanistan after their expulsion ...

"When the US uses negotiations as a tool to deceive Iran and cover up a sudden military attack by the Zionist regime [Israel], talks cannot be conducted as before," the Iranian parliament said ...

Drones targeted oil fields in Iraq’s semi-autonomous northern Kurdish region Wednesday, the latest in a series of attacks in ...

Iran is threatening to raise uranium enrichment to weapons-grade levels and exit the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) ...

Georgia was the poster child of post-Soviet countries on their way to democracy and freedom. US lawmakers hope a bill will ...