The number of those who were injured in the recent quake in western Iran has reached 729, a local official said Monday, IRNA reported

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says a "resistance movement" based on Islam is building up across the world, which is unsettling world powers, especially the US, Press TV reported.

At least 50 people have been killed and 83 others wounded in an explosion inside a very large wedding hall on the airport road in Kabul city center.

An estimated 85,000 children under five may have died from extreme hunger or disease since Saudi Arabia and its allies started a war on Yemen in 2015, according to new analysis by Save the Children.

Bahrain’s pro-democracy activists have now called on all parties to rally behind Sheikh Abdullah Saleh’s (Deputy Secretary-General of the Islamic Action Society) demands to establish a constituent assembly, so that a national constitution could at last be formulated by way of a popular petition.

Several activists imprisoned in Saudi Arabia since May, including a number of women who campaigned for the right to drive, have been beaten and tortured during interrogation, Amnesty International said.

Bushehr police commander announced that 500kg of narcotics were confiscated in three planned operations in southwestern Iran.

Special Assistant to Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Jaberi Ansari discussed Syria's latest developments with UN special envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura and some of the representatives of Syrian opposition groups.

Iran’s foreign minister described US President Donald Trump’s pledge of support for Riyadh despite the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi as “shameful”, deploring Trump’s picking on Iran instead and joking that Tehran might even have been responsible for recent California fires.

S President Donald Trump declared his strong support for Saudi Arabia, effectively ignoring the CIA’s conclusion that Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman ordered the brutal killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and asserting that relations with a critical ally should not be derailed.