TEHRAN (Iran News) – Opposition candidate Alberto Fernandez swept Argentina’s presidential election on Sunday, ousting pro-market incumbent Mauricio Macri and tilting the nation back toward left-wing populism at a time of economic crisis. Fernandez, a political insider who has never held national office, won 48% of the vote with 95% of ballots counted, enough to […]

Lebanon is one of the only countries on the planet that is heavily dependent on fuel oil and diesel oil to generate electricity. Iran News quotes the story of energy problems in Lebanon. Among the raft of economic reforms announced by Prime Minister Saad Hariri on October 21 is an overhaul of the country’s energy sector that includes transitioning power […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Russia’s defense ministry has no reliable proof that Daesh (also ISIL) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed in a US raid and doubts that such a raid has ever taken place, the ministry’s spokesman, Igor Konashenkov, said on Sunday. “Russia’s defense ministry has no reliable information about an operation by […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Afghan officials have set a new date for announcing the last month’s Afghanistan election results, after several delays. Hawa Alam Nuristani, head of the Independent Election Commission, says Sunday preliminary Afghanistan election results will be announced on Nov. 14. There is a delay on the initial deadline for sharing the results […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Units of the Syria Arab Army on Sunday deployed in four new villages in Ras al-Ayn countryside, reducing a distance towards the Turkish border to few kilometers. Syrian news agency SANA’s reporter in Hasaka made a report. Says that army units advanced from the direction of Tal Tamr in the northern […]

Russia has slammed as “banditry” plans by the United States to deploy more forces in Syria, accusing the administration of President Donald Trump of seeking to seize the Syria oil fields under false pretexts. Iran News quotes the report. Trump and Pentagon chief Mark Esper confirmed Thursday that, while Washington was pulling some troops out […]

ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead, sources have confirmed to Fox News. Iran News covers the story of Al-baghdadi death. Al-Baghdadi, who took over ISIS after his predecessor Abu Omar al-Baghdadi was killed in 2010, detonated a suicide vest, killing himself when U.S. Special Operations forces entered a compound in northern Syria where he […]

ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is believed to have been killed in a raid conducted by the US military in northwest Syria on Saturday, according to a senior US defense official and a source with knowledge. The final confirmation is pending while DNA and biometric testing is ongoing, both sources tell CNN. Iran News covers […]

US Energy Secretary Rick Perry said on Saturday that conversations with Saudi Arabia on a nuclear program are going forward.

The vast majority of Catalonia's almost 1,000 mayors on Saturday urged authorities in Madrid to grant the region the right to determine its own future, as crowds of separatists readied for a protest march in Barcelona later in the day.