Greece is poised to create “prison” island camps for migrants, said aid groups amid growing criticism of government plans to overhaul refugee reception centers on Aegean outposts facing Turkey. As the UN Refugee Agency’s top official, Filippo Grandi, prepared this week to fly to Lesbos, where almost 16,000 people are crammed into a single facility, […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Russia’s Defense Ministry warned the White Helmets organization, jointly with militants from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham terrorist group (formerly known as Nusra Front), are preparing for staging airstrikes and usage of chemical weapons in Syria’s northwestern Idlib de-escalation zone. “Several sources have confirmed the information — militants from the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Hong Kong leader vowed Monday to “listen humbly” to voters after the opposition camp scored a landslide victory in community-level elections that revealed broad public support for a protest movement that has stirred months of violence. In a rout that stunned the semiautonomous territory, opposition candidates seized an overwhelming majority of […]

Turkey has announced it will test the S-400 missile defense systems it purchased from Russia in Ankara on Monday and Tuesday as the row with the US deepens.

More than 60 doctors wrote an open letter published Monday saying they feared Julian Assange's health was so bad that the WikiLeaks founder could die inside a top-security British jail.

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Turkish F-16 warplanes will fly over the country’s capital Ankara on Monday to test its new Russian S-400 missile defenses, Turkish media said, despite pressure from Washington for Turkey to drop the system. Ankara’s purchase of the Russian S-400 systems has been a major factor souring relations with the United States, […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Reports of clashes in Baghdad and southern Iraq indicate that at least seven people were killed and dozens wounded in the latest spate of ongoing protests against economic hardships and corruption, police and medical sources said Sunday. In the southern town of Nasiriyah in Iraq, security forces clashed with demonstrators and […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Hong Kong is a part of China “no matter what happens” in the community-level elections that were held in the semi-autonomous city at the weekend, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Monday. “Any attempt to mess up Hong Kong, or even damage its prosperity and stability, will not succeed,” Mr. […]

TEHRAN (Iran News)- Around 10,000 people took part in a protest march in Brussels on Sunday calling for an end to violence against women, police announced, a day after similar demonstrations in France and Italy. The protesters in the Belgian capital paid homage to women killed by partners or ex-partners, then marched to the Palace […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – HRW (Human Rights Watch) condemned Tel Aviv’s decision to expel the rights group’s Israel director from the occupied territories over his support for the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. In a statement on Sunday, HRW Executive Director Ken Roth said that American citizen Omar Shakir, the US-based rights group’s […]