TEHRAN  – Chief of the General Staff of Turkey Hulusi Akar arrived in Tehran on Monday morning for talks with top Iranian military and political officials. Heading a military delegation, the top Turkish general is going to hold talks with Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri. He was […]

TEHRAN – Gunfire erupted early Sunday in a popular downtown area of a Kansas college town, leaving three people dead and two wounded, police said. The shooting happened around 1:45am not far from police headquarters in Lawrence, in an area crowded with people from concerts, bars and events at the nearby University of Kansas, which […]

TEHRAN – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he will travel to Iran on October 4 to discuss the latest regional developments, particularly the recent independence referendum in Iraq’s Kurdistan region with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani. Speaking at the Turkish Parliament’s legislative year reception on Sunday, the Turkish president said the roadmap that Iran […]

Police in Edmonton, Canada, are investigating two incidents of stabbings and truck rampage as “acts of terrorism“, said city’s police service chief Rod Knecht. The incidents, which occurred late on Saturday night, left one policeman and four civilians injured. The prime suspect, identified to be a 30-year-old man, has been arrested, AFP reported. The first […]

German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel has called on the United States to engage in dialogue with Iran over its nuclear program amid growing concerns about the future of the nuclear agreement Iran clinched with the P5+1 group of countries more than two years ago. In a statement on Sunday, Gabriel welcomed US Secretary of State Rex […]

Catalonia’s regional government has announced that 90 percent of those who participated in an independence referendum banned by Spain’s central government choose to be separated from the country. While addressing a press briefing early on Monday, regional government spokesman Jordi Turull announced that 2.02 million Catalans had voted “yes” to the question: “Do you want […]

Italy has ordered North Korea’s new ambassador to leave the European country in protest at Pyongyang’s weapons programs. Italian Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano announced the development in an interview with Italian daily La Repubblica, which was published on Sunday. “We have taken the firm decision to interrupt the accreditation procedure. The [North Korean] ambassador will have […]

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) would pay the price over KRG’s independece referendum. “We never regret what we have done in the past, but now the circumstances have changed, the northern Iraqi regional government which we have been giving all kinds of support for a long time, has taken […]

A former Bahraini opposition lawmaker criticized the Al Khalifa regime’s crackdown on dissidents, saying that in a latest development, security forces of the regime have arrested several youths and two women for protesting the desecration of religious signs. Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency, Jalal Fairooz said during this year’s mourning ceremonies held in Bahrain […]

Iraq’s top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has voiced opposition to the secession of the northern Kurdistan region from the mainland, warning of the negative repercussions of such “unilateral steps.” Grand Ayatollah Sistani’s representative Ahmed al-Safi said in a Friday sermon on his behalf in the holy city of Karbala that the senior cleric wants […]