Patriarch Gregory III of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church asked for the US and Russia to bring about effective dialogue in war-torn Syria.

Vice President Joe Biden was in Paris to reassure France that the Franco-American relationship is warm and cordial. Biden also gave a vision for the second term of the Obama administration, including advancing on gun control.

Tanks and Ak-47s were evident in Caracas as Venezuelans went to vote. Exit polls showed Capriles the winner, but the government-controlled electoral college gave the win to Chavez who has been in power for 14 years.

An apologist for Palestinian terrorism, Salam Al-Marayati of the Muslim Public Affairs Council will represent the U.S. at a human rights conference of the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe to be held in Warsaw.

Obama condemned a short film that has been blamed for anti-American riots in Muslim countries. This came a day after a deadly U.S. drone strike in Muslim-dominated Pakistan.

Israel does not want war with Iran. But it will protect itself.

Archimandrite Philip Tournyol Clos said that foreigners fighting in Syria are to blame for divisions between Christians and Muslims in that country.

With an oil glut on its hands, Iran is faced with storing oil on its ships which wander the world seeking to sell cut-rate crude.

Iran's Minister of Communications and Information technology, Reza Taghipour has sent a letter to the head of the country's Central Bank, Mahmud Bahmani, asking him to instruct banks to refrain from sending bank statements to e-mail addresses administered by foreign providers.

New Delhi must avoid the "devastating" effect of an Iranian atomic bomb on the world. During an official visit, the US secretary of state says India's slowness in reducing trade with Iran is unacceptable. Iran supplies 12 per cent of India's oil needs.

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi says he is hoping for "success" in talks with world powers on the Iranian nuclear program scheduled for May 23.

Bound for Syria, a ship owned by a German firm is supposedly carrying 'pumps and similar things.' But Cyprus would not allow it in because the crew had declared it was bearing weapons.

A recently discovered Iranian government document appears to shed new light on Iran's efforts to exert greater control over the Internet. The document solicits help from Iranian tech companies in "purifying" the Internet.

Iran's President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has launched the first phase of a project aimed at pumping water from the Caspian Sea to a desert city in Iran's central region.

Iran's central bank has urged all credit- and debit-cardholders in the country to change their personal identification code numbers to increase the security of their transactions following media reports that the credit cards of some 3 million Iranians have been hacked.

Talks resume after a year on ice. For Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, the meeting will "have good news." Iran is prepared "to re-establish confidence and trust." The US remains sceptical, whilst Saudi Arabia and Israel are hostile. About 69 per cent of Israelis would like to see a joint ...

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Iran has reportedly removed World AIDS Day from the country's official calendar. It's a decision that is drawing criticism from those working against the spread of the disease in the Islamic republic.

Iranian authorities are refusing to allow a ceremony to honor Asghar Farhadi and his film, "The Separation," which won Best Foreign Film at February's Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles.

Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned Azerbaijani Ambassador Javanshir Akhundov to explain Baku's purchase of some $1.6 billion in weapons from Israel, Iran's state media reported.

A switch from a Cold War posture would be difficult anyway, even without an increasingly bearish Russia and emboldened China. Can Obama do it?

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A Vienna-based diplomat has told the BBC that Iran may be poised to expand its nuclear program at an underground site near the city of Qom.

The EU's chief diplomat welcomes Tehran’s recent openings. Hillary Clinton says letter is "what we expected." But the British Foreign Secretary fears a "cold war" in the Middle East. Iranian warships in the Mediterranean, while Ahmadinejad talks about ties between nations on ethical and ...