
SYRIA
'Iran-Russia-Syria-Iraq front must succeed'
The Syrian president says the coalition of Iran, Russia, Syria and Iraq must prevail or the entire region will be destroyed.

The Syrian president says the coalition of Iran, Russia, Syria and Iraq must prevail or the entire region will be destroyed.

US police have thwarted a new plot to conduct a mass shooting at a school in California.

Ships are scheduled to make unusual loadings of about 60,000 tonnes of wheat for Iran, but overall demand from the country is expected to be very low this year, European traders say.

Iranian lawmakers pass a single-urgency motion that allows the administration to voluntarily implement the JCPOA.

Unknown gunmen shoot and kill two Egyptian policemen in the country’s troubled Sinai Peninsula.

A Pakistani tribal elder is reportedly killed in a roadside bomb blast in the country’s northwest.

The National Iranian Oil Products Distribution Company (NIOPDC) says it has received no request from Shell or Total to set up service stations in Iran, prompting confusion after an official said even licenses had been granted.

Doctors Without Borders says no Taliban militants were firing against Afghan and US forces from the clinic run by the charity group in Kunduz, Afghanistan.

The Palestinian government raps fresh Israeli restrictions on the entry of Palestinians into al-Aqsa Mosque.

US President Barack Obama has declared an emergency in South Carolina, authorizing federal aid to the people affected by floods there.

Portuguese citizens cast ballots in parliamentary elections seen as referendum on austerity measures.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel calls for a political solution to the crisis in Syria.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani warns of spread of violence and terrorism across the world.

Taliban militants reportedly capture a district in Afghanistan’s province of Sar-e Pol.

Saudi Arabia uses US targeting aid to bomb Yemen, says a report.

Israeli military forces shoot dead a young Palestinian near the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in al-Quds (Jerusalem).

Malaysian authorities order most of the country's schools shut for two days over thick haze.

NATO will open a new center in Poland by the end of 2015, a new report says.