
DEFENSE
Iran to US defense chief: Mind your words
Iran's defense minister warns Ashton Carter to talk more 'sensibly' after claims by the latter that the Islamic Republic has ground forces in the Middle East.

Iran's defense minister warns Ashton Carter to talk more 'sensibly' after claims by the latter that the Islamic Republic has ground forces in the Middle East.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is due to arrive in Washington to make amends with President Barack Obama.

British Prime Minister David Cameron will give his strongest warning yet that he might back Britain leaving the EU unless other European leaders agree to his demands for reform of the bloc.

Hackers who breached the CIA director’s email account have now hacked an FBI-run law enforcement portal.

China registers record-high trade surplus as country struggles to boost domestic demand amid falling imports.

The sound heard in the cockpit recording of an ill-fated Russian passenger plane was reportedly caused by a bomb explosion.

Residents of Indian-administered Kashmir stages a strike to protest the killing of a man in the disputed Himalayan region.

Six people are killed and 26 injured in three bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

General Nicholas Houghton, the chief of Britain’s defence staff, says the country is "letting down" allies by not participating in air strikes against ISIL in Syria.

Egypt looks to Iran’s ramp-up of oil production which could boost the Arab nation’s proceeds from transit of crude through the SUMED pipeline, its petroleum minister has said.

Iran has embarked on a massive mining exploration drive in its resource-rich Kerman province amid a tidal wave of interest created by a nuclear accord in investment by foreign companies.

Unknown gunmen shoot to death at least seven people in Burundi's capital, Bujumbura.

Israeli forces shoot and kill two more Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

At least three people die in a US drone strike in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar Province.

Texas State District Judge Julie Kocurek has been shot in the driveway of her West Austin home.

Iran’s new Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hossein Jaberi Ansari officially takes office.

Hundreds of migrant workers stage a protest against their inadequate wages in the United Arab Emirates.

People rally in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince to slam alleged vote rigging.