Economy Feb 06 IMF says Gulf Arab states may deplete oil savings in 15 years An IMF report released on Thursday points to worries about climate change and supply from new competitors as something that will continue to dampen global oil prices.
World Feb 03 Recording shows Iran knew Ukrainian jetliner was hit by a missile The recording purports to show that authorities immediately knew a missile had downed a Ukrainian jetliner after takeoff from Tehran, killing all 176 people aboard, despite days of denials by the Islamic Republic.
World Jan 15 Iran warns European soldiers in the Mideast 'could be in danger' The warning comes after three European nations challenged Tehran over breaking the limits of its nuclear deal.
World Jan 13 Video shows Iran police shot tear gas and bullets at protesters Videos sent to the New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran and later verified by The Associated Press show a crowd of demonstrators near Azadi, or Freedom, Square fleeing as a tear gas canister landed among them.
World Jan 12 Iran braces for protests after admitting plane shootdown Iran's security forces deployed in large numbers across the capital on Sunday, expecting more protests after its Revolutionary Guard admitted to accidentally shooting down a passenger plane at a time of soaring tensions with the United States.
World Jan 11 Sultan Qaboos bin Said, who modernized Oman, dies at 79 Oman’s Sultan Qaboos bin Said, the Mideast’s longest-ruling monarch who seized power in a 1970 palace coup and pulled his Arabian sultanate into modernity while carefully balancing diplomatic ties between adversaries Iran and the U.S., has died. He was 79.
World Jan 10 Plane crash may be grim echo of U.S. downing of Iran flight in 1988 The July 3, 1988 downing of Iran Air flight 655 by the U.S. Navy remains one of the moments the Iranian government points to in its decades-long distrust of America.
World Jan 09 Iran says Ukrainian plane was on fire and tried to turn back The Iranian report suggests that a sudden emergency struck the Boeing 737 operated by Ukrainian International Airlines that crashed just minutes after taking off from Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran.
World Jan 08 Ukrainian airplane crashes near Iran's capital, killing 176 Iranian officials said they suspected a mechanical issue brought down the 3½-year-old Boeing 737-800 aircraft.
World Jan 07 Iran strikes back at U.S. with missile attack at bases in Iraq According to State TV, Iran has launched “tens” of surface-to-surface missiles at Iraq’s Ain Assad air base housing U.S. troops over America’s killing of a top Iranian general.