In a meeting with Saudi Ambassador Abdullah bin Saud al-Anzi this week, Iran’s Hajj chief Alireza Rashidian said that last year Iran’s allocation was approximately 85,000 pilgrims.
He requested an increase in the quota for the next Hajj…

In a meeting with Saudi Ambassador Abdullah bin Saud al-Anzi this week, Iran’s Hajj chief Alireza Rashidian said that last year Iran’s allocation was approximately 85,000 pilgrims.
He requested an increase in the quota for the next Hajj…

The total area of land in Afghanistan on which opium poppy is grown shrank 20% in 2025, according to a U.N. estimate issued on Thursday, a further drop since farming of the raw material for heroin collapsed in 2023 after the Taliban banned it.

Pars Today – The Australian Parliament has passed legislation allowing the federal government to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a “national terrorist” organization based on unfounded and baseless…
By Ahmed Rasheed
BAGHDAD (Reuters) -Anwar Ibrahim, 25, is so frustrated with Iraq’s sectarian politics that he is running for parliament, joining a wave of young Iraqis challenging an entrenched elite at elections next week.
“I believe young…

Pars Today – From U.S. right-wing media to official Trump administration agencies, Nigeria has gradually become a hot topic in Washington’s foreign policy.
Foreign Policy, in a recent analysis, examined the emergence of this…

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The Chinese Foreign Ministry announced that the…

Pars Today – United Nations reports genocide of Palestinians in Gaza continues.
According to Pars Today, in the latest report by Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories,…

Iranian authorities have filed charges against a journalist who criticized the re-arrest of a political prisoner and posted a document s …

Tigray was the centre of a devastating two-year war that pitted the TPLF against Ethiopia’s federal army.
Published On 6 Nov 2025
Ethiopia’s Afar region has accused forces from…

Attackers have boarded a ship off the coast of Somalia after firing machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades at the vessel, according to a UK maritime agency.
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) has issued an alert about the…