Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to pay a visit to Tehran on Monday to attend a summit of the Caspian Sea littoral states.

An earthquake measuring 4 on the Richter scale jolted the town of Mehr in Iran’s southern province of Fars on Sunday.

The son of one of Iraq’s most senior statesmen on Saturday called for more dialogue between the United States and Iran as Shiites took their turn celebrating the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

Russia opposes unilateral sanctions against Iran and favors resolving a nuclear dispute through multi-national negotiations.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — When asked about her engagement party this summer, little Sunam glanced blankly at her family, then fiddled with her gold-sequined engagement outfit — a speechless response not out of shyness, but because she does not yet talk much. Sunam is 3.

A suicide bomber killed one policeman and six civilians in southeastern Afghanistan close to the border with Pakistan on Saturday, a police commander said.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fateh faction ruled out talks with Hamas on Thursday as Israel warned any such dialogue with the Islamists could “torpedo” a peace deal with the Jewish state.

Syrian President Bashar Assad all but ruled out his country’s participation in a US-sponsored international peace conference on the Middle East, suggesting in an interview published Thursday that the meeting has no chance for success.

Ferryman Hisham freely acknowledges that the poor and dangerous conditions of Baghdad’s roads that drive residents of the capital to despair are, for him at least, a godsend.

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei stressed that all Iraqi people and officials as well as the world of Islam are opposed to a US plan for the disintegration of the war-torn neighbor of the Islamic Republic.