The battle for control of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo intensified on Sunday with airstrikes, ground offensives and shelling, the morning after a resurgence in fighting ended a Russian…

Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition attacked targets in Sana’a at dawn on Sunday, hours after a three-day truce in Yemen’s war expired, residents in the capital said.

The Colombian government and FARC rebels met in Cuba on Saturday to begin fresh talks to rewrite a peace deal that was narrowly defeated in a referendum earlier this month. Both sides remain…

A group of Somali pirates has released 26 hostages after holding them captive for over four-and-a-half years. The men all worked on a fishing ship when they were attacked near the Seychelles.

The Iraqi Army has said it has captured the town of Hamdaniyah, near Mosul, as the offensive to drive out the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group continues. Fumes from a nearby sulfur…

Multiple blasts in a park area of the Japanese city of Utsunomiya have killed at least one person and injured at least two, emergency services say. The explosions took place almost simultaneously…

Iran produces over 8 million tons of hazardous waste annually which is alarming given the poor state of waste treatment plants in the country, according to Iran’s top environment official.

The cultivation of opium poppy in Afghanistan, the world’s main source of heroin, has risen to its third-highest level in more than 20 years, the United Nations confirmed on Sunday, as the Taliban…

The Tehran University of Medical Sciences is planning to set up the country’s biggest medical facility for burn injuries.

“The facility will be equipped with the largest research center in…

A 35-year-old woman died after being struck by a subway train at Karaj Metro Station on Metro Line 5, Saturday night. The victim had crossed the platform’s cautionary yellow line and was leaning…

The National Health Carnival comprising 10 cyclists and a number of artists and athletes has begun touring across the country. The group arrived in Yazd Province Sunday morning. The carnival aims…

The latest report by the Iranian Legal Medicine Organization (LMO) released on Sunday (Oct. 23) says that in the first five months of the current year (started March 20), 521 people lost their…

A total of 1.2 million people were added to the country’s population in the past Iranian year (ended March 19). “Last year, the national population increased by 1.2 million, and the same trend is…

The Iran Health Insurance Organization is moving towards electronic registration of data.

The plan to eliminate paper booklets is currently on trial in seven provinces and will be…

Nine projects from Iran were among the winners of the second 2A Asia Architecture Award which were announced at a ceremony in Vienna last week.

The top medal in the field of culture and art at the 7th International Congress of Professor Yalda Foundation was awarded to Professor Jalal Khaleghi Motlagh for his global contribution to…

A Middle-earth love story by ‘Lord of the Rings’ author J. R. R. Tolkien will be published a century after it was first penned in 1917.

The UK publisher HarperCollins will release the book…

Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran will host the 2nd international Polymer & Color Scientific Photography competition (PCSP) next month.

Students of Sharif University of Technology were placed first in IEEEXtreme for the second consecutive year. According to IRNA, IEEEXtreme is a global challenge in which teams of electrical and…

For the second consecutive year, Iran was present at the Gitex Technology Week that opened in Dubai, the UAE, on October 18.

Iran had an exclusive pavilion, in which eight Iranian companies…

Iran’s Digital Games Research Center, known as DIREC, reported that Iranian game developers earned $1.2 million in international app stores.

According to the recent analytics, the number of…

Iran’s Center for Cyberspace Developers will host an event titled, Persian Web Conference 2016, in December.

Scheduled for December 12, the event will be held at the conference center of…

The Iranian government is to hand the establishment the infrastructure for e-governance to Mobile Telecommunications Company of Iran (MCI).

Facebook’s all-out embrace of live video appears to be affecting Instagram.

A new report from a Russian news site shows live functionality embedded into Instagram stories, with a bold “LIVE…

AT&T Inc has reached an agreement in principle to buy Time Warner Inc for about $85 billion, sources said, paving the way for what would be the biggest deal in the world this year, giving the…