TEHRAN – In Iran’s southeastern corner, where desert landscapes dominate both maps and headlines, water has long been a constant and indispensable force in social and economic life.
Sistan-Baluchestan province, often described solely through the…

TEHRAN – In Iran’s southeastern corner, where desert landscapes dominate both maps and headlines, water has long been a constant and indispensable force in social and economic life.
Sistan-Baluchestan province, often described solely through the…

TEHRAN – A total of 118 earthquakes were recorded across the country in a week from February 7 to 13, according to the seismological networks of the Institute of Geophysics of the University of Tehran.
Statistically, 84 earthquakes with…

Two years after the raid on Gaza’s Nasser Hospital, over 300 medical staff remain imprisoned by Israel amid rising calls for their release.

An Israeli Knesset member accompanied by a group of settlers entered a girls’ secondary school in the northern occupied West Bank during school hours on Sunday, prompting condemnation from Palestinian education…
By Orhan Qereman
ROJ CAMP, Syria, Feb 16 (Reuters) – Syrian Kurdish forces on Monday released 34 Australians who were detained in a camp holding families of suspected Islamic State militants in northern Syria, saying they would be flown to…
PARIS, Feb 16 (Reuters) – French police on Monday searched the Arab World Institute in Paris in connection with an investigation into its former head, ex culture minister Jack Lang, and his ties with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey…

Representatives of Ukraine, Russia and the US are set to meet for a third round of trilateral negotiations to end the four-year war.
Published On 16 Feb 2026

Anti-abortion groups are promoting ‘baby boxes’ in the US, facilities where vulnerable mothers can surrender their newborns anonymously. Al Jazeera’s Phil Lavelle explains the initiative.
Published On 16 Feb 2026

A video circulating on social media has sparked widespread outrage online after an Israeli soldier unashamedly admitted to committing atrocities in the Gaza Strip.

CAIRO, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) — The navy forces of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) have launched a drill in the Strait of Hormuz, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported Monday.
The main goals of the drill are to “assess the…