Official figures show Turkey's tourism revenue dropped nearly 30% in 2016 from the previous year, as potential holidaymakers stayed away because of the worsening security situation in the country…

First-time visitors have their own anxieties and rightfully so when the destination happens to be the Iranian capital, Tehran, which has been misrepresented for decades by the vested western…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday reaffirmed her criticism of a US travel ban slapped on travelers from seven countries, saying it smacked of anti-Muslim bias.

The African Union agreed on Monday to readmit Morocco 33 years after it quit the bloc, following a difficult debate over the status of Western Sahara, according to presidents attending the summit…

The alleged mastermind behind a three-day terror spree in Mumbai nearly a decade ago was placed under house arrest on Monday, with some suggesting the timing of his detention was linked to…

Canadian police have charged a French-Canadian student over the fatal shooting of six Muslim worshippers at a mosque in Quebec.

Alexandre Bissonnette faces six counts of first-degree murder…

A third person has died in a week in the Moria Refugee Camp on Greece’s Lesbos Island, raising alarm about the grim winter conditions in overcrowded facilities that critics have denounced as…

Yemen has lost a decade’s worth of gains in public health as a result of war and economic crisis, with increasing numbers of children succumbing to malnutrition, the United Nations’ Children’s…

US President Donald Trump has fired the acting attorney general, a holdover from the administration of former president, Barack Obama, after she ordered Justice Department attorneys not to defend…

Mohamed Abrini, the suspected bomber caught on camera during the Brussels airport attack, has been charged in France over the November 2015 terrorist attack in Paris, his lawyers said. Belgium…

Malek National Library Museum in Tehran will admit visitors free of charge during the 10-Day Dawn (Fajr) Festivities that marks the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

One of the…

A solo exhibition by artist Bita Vakili is underway at e1 art gallery in Tehran, the proceeds of which will go to charity.

Titled ‘Passageways’, the exhibit showcases 12 large artworks…

Infants now have their own seats among the audiences at Theater Center of the Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA) in Tehran at its latest play.

‘Eating Animals,’ a non-fiction work by American writer Jonathan Safran Foer, 39, is now available in Persian.

Tehran-based Mosallas Publications recently released a Persian edition of Foer…

A collection of works by veteran Iranian artist Koorosh Shishegaran has been published in English.

Titled ‘Koorosh Shishegaran: The Art of Altruism’, the book has been compiled by Hamid…

Venezuela's president on Sunday created an executive vice president post and named new vice presidents to lead PDVSA in what he described as a shake-up of the state oil company and an effort to…

At least six people were killed in a shooting at a mosque in Quebec City during evening prayers, police said.

Gunmen fired on about 50 people inside the Quebec Islamic Cultural Centre on…

More than a million people have signed a parliamentary petition demanding that US President Donald Trump is prevented from making a state visit to the UK.

Monday's milestone far exceeds the…

Britain and the European Union are heading for an “economic cold war” that could have “terrible consequences” for the West, Italy’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mario Giro said Monday.

In an…

Lukoil, Russia's No.2 oil producer, hopes to reach a decision on developing two new oilfields in Iran and wants to expand its operations further in the Middle East this year, a senior executive…

Talks are underway with European firms including an unnamed German company to increase polypropylene production in Rejal Petrochemical Complex in Bandar-Mahshahr, Khuzestan Province, vice…

A pilot program has started from mid-January to distribute top-grade 'branded' gasoline in select filling stations in central Isfahan Province as part of measures to improve fuel quality and…

The International Energy Agency (IEA) does not expect oil demand to peak any time soon due to rising consumption in developing economies, Director Fatih Birol said on Monday. Birol also warned…

Oil prices were steady on Monday, but news of another increase in US drilling activity spread concern over rising output just as many of the world's oil producers are trying to comply with a deal…

French energy sector unions have called for a strike in the gas and electricity sector to protest wage freezes in the sector for 2017, CGT trade union said in a statement on Monday. The date for…