The spread of terrorism and NATO expansion are undermining security in the Asian region, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said at the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) summit on Thursday in Astana.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi considers it important to create financial mechanisms based on regional currencies, he said on Thursday in Astana at the summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA).

Thirteen people, mostly fighters, have been killed in two days of ongoing clashes between rival factions competing for power in northwest Syria, a war monitor said Wednesday.

The expansion of infrastructural capacities for the increase of energy supplies to Turkey is highly promising, Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak told reporters on the sidelines of the Russian Energy Week forum.

Syria on Wednesday revealed a remarkably intact 1,600-year-old Roman-era mosaic including depictions of warriors in the Trojan War.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s proposal to create a gas hub in Turkey is realistic an can be implemented, Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Fatih Donmez said during the Russian Energy Week forum.

Russia is ready to redirect supplies from Nord Stream gas pipelines to the Black Sea if partners are interested in it, President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday at the Russian Energy Week forum.

…The portraits begin in monochrome, evoking  Iran’s black and white talkies….

The areas controlled by the Kurdish forces in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor province in northeastern Syria have recently witnessed growing activities by Islamic State (IS) cells.

…teenage girls and young women who had died as protests have swept Iran since mid-September after the death in custody of 22-year-old…