The UN Security Council will meet Thursday on the situation in Iran, said a spokeswoman for the Somali Permanent Mission to the United Nations, whose country holds the rotating council presidency for the month of January.
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Iran's Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said on Saturday evening that Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are "very close" to reaching an agreement on a new framework for resuming bilateral cooperation.
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The Foreign Ministry of the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday summoned Israeli Ambassador to the UAE Yossi Shelley over the recent "offensive violations" against the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and the Muslim Quarter of the Old City in Jerusalem.
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The second round of Lebanon's municipal and local elections began on Sunday in the governorates of Akkar and North Lebanon, following the first round held on May 4 in the Mount Lebanon Governorate.
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The withdrawal of South African peacekeepers deployed to the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), along with their military equipment, has begun, South African Minister of Defense and Military Veterans Angie Motshekga announced on Sunday.
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Iran has blasted recent remarks by EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas against the Islamic Republic.
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Algerian Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf reaffirmed on Sunday his country's support for Lebanon, emphasizing that Algeria will stand by the Lebanese people in all circumstances.
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At least 17 people were killed and 74 injured, including 50 critically, in a gas station explosion in Yemen's central province of Al-Bayda, health authorities said on Sunday.
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The Israeli government approved a plan on Sunday to expand settlements in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, according to a statement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office.
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Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Sunday hailed the success in the expansion of cooperation between Tehran and Riyadh following their normalization of bilateral ties.
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Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia military group, vowed Tuesday to retaliate against Israel's "brutal aggression" after two journalists from Lebanese TV channel Al-Mayadeen were killed in Israeli attacks on the southern village of Tayr Harfa.
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At least 29 people have been killed and more than 850,000 displaced due to flooding triggered by heavy rains in Somalia, according to the country's disaster management authorities.
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The UN peacekeeping mission in Mali has completed its accelerated withdrawal from three camps in the eastern Kidal region of northern Mali, a UN spokesman said late on Tuesday.
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Some 997,743 refugees have arrived in South Sudan in spontaneous returns from October 2018 to September 2023 after the signing of the revitalized peace agreement on the resolution of conflict, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Tuesday.
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The US Senate voted largely along party lines on Tuesday to confirm Jack Lew as the country's next ambassador to Israel.
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The top UN envoy for Libya, Abdoulaye Bathily, warned on Monday that disagreements over electoral laws and the formation of a new government carry the risk of another political crisis in Libya.
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Iran barred a number of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors assigned to it last month due to their countries' "harsh" behaviors toward Tehran, Iran's nuclear chief said Wednesday.
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Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan revealed on Wednesday that the two assailants responsible for a recent suicide bomb attack in the capital city of Ankara hailed from Syria.
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Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said on Monday the country has always supported the return of the Nagorno-Karabakh region to Azerbaijan.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said the country will make its decision on the revival of a 2015 nuclear deal based on Washington's "practical action," not its repeated "positive messages."
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