Vessel equipped with modern guided-missile system and is capable of operating underwater for up to five weeks. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has unveiled a “state-of-the-art” domestically produced submarine, which the defence ministry said is capable of firing cruise missiles. Rouhani is in the southern province of Hormozgan on Sunday to introduce the latest addition of […]

At least 22 Turkish soldiers have been killed in an airstrike by Syrian “regime forces”, Turkish officials say. More were hurt in the attack in Idlib, Hatay governor Rahmi Dogan said. Other reports put the death toll higher. Turkey is now retaliating against Syrian government targets, reports say, after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a […]

A look at the events, reactions and expectations as nuclear-armed South Asian neighbours come to the brink of war. India and Pakistan have carried out air raids inside each other’s countries for the first time since the 1971 war, raising fears of a major military escalation between the two nuclear-armed nations. Pakistan claimed it carried […]

Adnan Gaith was among several other Fatah members in occupied East Jerusalem arrested in overnight raids. Israeli police arrested Adnan Ghaith, the Palestinian governor of Jerusalem, in a dawn raid on Wednesday, according to a local NGO and local media. “The governor was arrested in a raid on his home in the Jerusalem neighbourhood of […]

A military funeral has been held in Egypt for former President Hosni Mubarak, who died on Tuesday aged 91. The current President, Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, walked alongside Mubarak’s sons, Alaa and Gamal, in a procession behind his coffin as it was taken to the Field Marshal Tantawi mosque in Cairo. The government has declared three […]

African country rocked by an unprecedented wave of protests over Bouteflika’s candidacy for a fifth term in office. Algerians on Friday will take part in what are expected to be the biggest protests in decades. The demonstrations – dubbed the Million Man March – follow week-long protests in more than 30 cities against incumbent President […]

Iran has a growing number of coronavirus cases and there is concern about how the government is responding. With the help of our colleagues in BBC Persian, we’ve been trying to piece together what is happening in Iran. How many have been infected? The Iranian government on Wednesday said 19 people have died so far […]

Saudi Arabia is to launch a female football league, two years after women were first allowed into stadiums in the Gulf kingdom. The league will play its matches in the capital, Riyadh, and two other cities. The creation of the league is the latest of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s reforms in Saudi Arabia, which […]

NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – Religious pilgrims, migrant workers, businessmen, soldiers and clerics all flow constantly across Iran’s frontiers, often crossing into countries with few border controls, weak and ineffective governments and fragile health systems. Now, as it struggles to contain the spread of the coronavirus, Iran is also emerging as the second focal point after […]

NAJAF, IRAQ (AFP) – Iraq on Monday (Feb 24) confirmed its first coronavirus infection in an Iranian national studying in the southern shrine city of Najaf, health officials said. The country, which has a dilapidated healthcare system, often hosts pilgrims and religious students from Iran, where 12 people have died since a coronavirus outbreak there […]