Nearly 90% of iPhones sold in the market in Iran are smuggled into the country, according to the head of Iran's Telecoms Equipment Union.

Only 8% of the iPhones on the market are imported…

China’s Alibaba Group is leading a $2.6 billion bid to privatize Intime Retail Group Co Ltd in a move to digitize bricks-and-mortar department stores while growth in online sales begins to slow.…

West African leaders are to head to Gambia to persuade President Yahya Jammeh to hand over power after his election defeat last month, Nigeria’s foreign minister said.

On Monday, Turkey’s Parliament began debating a package of constitutional amendments aimed at empowering President Recep Tayyip Erdogan while 11 opposition members remain in jail.

US president-elect Donald Trump’s son in-law, Jared Kushner, will serve as White House senior adviser, transition team sources said on Monday. Kushner, the businessman husband of Ivanka Trump, has…

Iraqi forces have fought their way into two more southeastern districts of Mosul but their advances are being slowed by the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group’s tactic of using civilians…

No issue is more politically sensitive in Germany than security.

Since the Christmas market attack in Berlin on December 19, few days have gone by on which security forces have not been…

Julian Assange answered questions submitted via #AskWL on Twitter for over an hour, which was streamed live via Periscope from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.

He described the report of…

Britain is looking to secure privileged EU customs union access, work visas and tax breaks for certain sectors as part of a plan to protect key industries when it exits the European Union.

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Suicide bombs at two marketplaces in Baghdad, one of them claimed by Islamic State, killed at least 20 people on Sunday, police and medics said, the latest in a spate of militant attacks in the…

US president-elect, Donald Trump, is looking forward to his meeting with British Prime Minister Theresa May, according to the message he posted on his Twitter.

“I look very much forward to…

A Palestinian rammed his truck into a group of Israeli soldiers on a popular promenade in Beit-ul-Moqaddas on Sunday, killing four soldiers and injuring about 15 others in a deliberate attack,…

Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani passed away on Sunday in Tehran at the age of 82 after suffering a massive heart attack.

The Central Bank of Iran is obligated to allocate interest-free loans to socially vulnerable people covered by two main charity organizations, announced the head of Majlis Joint Committee for the…

The Iranian banking sector’s ratio of non-performing loans stood at 11% by September 20, down from 13.6% in September 20, 2014, the Central Bank of Iran’s governor announced.

Iran’s National Tax Administration has issued a new directive to the banking system, devising a ceiling for loans and a slew of other banking services for taxing individuals and businesses.

Based on guidelines approved by the Money and Credit Council, Iranian banks have been obligated to allocate at least 11.6% of their loans to the agriculture sector.

Iran’s green banks will be introduced during the First Conference on Green Banking in mid-February, the head of the Department of Environment announced on Sunday.“We have been holding talks with…

Iran Air has taken the delivery of an Airbus A321, which will be the first jetliner to be delivered to Iran from among 100 planes the French planemaker has agreed to supply after the lifting of…

Iran approved the attraction of $11.8 billion in foreign direct investment during the 12 months to December 21.

Of this sum, $11.33 billion pertain to greenfield and $496 million to…

A notice of discontinuance of cash subsidies will be sent to three million Iranians by text message, says Minister of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare Ali Rabiei.

He added that they…

Iran exports about 7,000 tons of flowers, ornamental plants and herbal medicines annually, supplying close to 1% of the global markets, the deputy agriculture minister for horticultural affairs…

More than 32 billion cigarettes were produced domestically during the nine months to December 20, 56% more compared with last year’s corresponding period, the chairman of the Center for Tobacco…

Some 72,000 traditional bread bakeries are operating in Iran, meeting 95% of domestic demand for bread, the head of Tehran Bakers Union said.

“About 80% of the flour used in these…

Secretary of Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani arrived in Damascus on Sunday to meet Syrian officials.

Speaking to reporters upon arrival, Shamkhani said the trip is aimed at…