Iran`s President Masoud Pezeshkian (R) and Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi meet in Tehran on January 10, 2026...

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (R) and his Omani counterpart Sayyid Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi attend a joint press conference in Tehran on January 10, 2026...

A woman and her three children were found hanged in their Sohrab Goth home on Sunday, Pakistani officials said...

Iran has seized a foreign-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman on December 12, 2025...

The chairman of the National Congress Party of Afghanistan has reacted to the abduction of women by the Taliban from some Afghan cities, writing that gender segregation and ethnic and religious discrimination are rampant in the Taliban emirate...

Women and girls in Kabul report growing concerns for their safety and restrictions from their families on leaving their homes, amidst rising Taliban arrests over clothing violations...

Richard Bennett, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Afghanistan, on Friday urged the immediate release of women arrested by the Taliban for wearing what the group deems as ‘bad hijab’...

The Taliban has arrested dozens of women in western Kabul over the past three days for wearing improper hijab, the Women’s Political Participation Network reported Thursday...

The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in his new report titled: The situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international peace and security addressed issues including political progress, security, regional cooperation, human rights, and humanitarian aid...

Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (R) and his Omani counterpart Sayyid Badr Albusaidi Foreign Minister of Iran Hossein Amir-Abdollahian cites the regional resistance leaders as pledging to confront the Israeli regime more decisively if Tel Aviv resumed its war against the Gaza Strip...

The photo shows Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi (R) and Omani Sultan Haitham bin Tarik...

UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Marta Hurtado The United Nations has rebuked France for banning the country’s athletes from wearing headscarves during the 2024 Paris Games...

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan addresses the 78th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City on September 23, 2023...

Head of the Afghan-Turk Education Foundation in Afghanistan, Ahmed Tukur, said that in discussion with the Islamic Emirate’s officials, they are attempting to reopen schools for girls in Afghanistan...

US Special Envoy Thomas West on the sidelines of the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, said that the restrictions imposed on Afghan women and girls affect their families the most...

On the two-year anniversary of the ban on girls’ education in Afghanistan, Amnesty International has requested the Islamic Emirate to take immediate action to reopen secondary schools for girls...

An Afghan woman walks among Taliban soldiers at a checkpoint in Kabul, Afghanistan...

Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says the Islamic Republic sees no limits when it comes to establishment of friendly relations with neighboring countries...

Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (center left) is officially welcomed upon arrival at Muscat International Airport, Oman, on January 10, 2022...

Residents of the village of Balasour in Iran found two children next to their mother’s body on the border between Iran and Turkey, foreign media outlets reported...

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (R) meets with Sheikh Khalifa bin Ali bin Issa al-Harthy, the Omani Foreign Ministry’s under-secretary for diplomatic affairs, in Tehran on December 25, 2021...

US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (Photo by Reuters) US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has introduced legislation in the House of Representatives in an effort to block the sale of $650 million air-to-air missiles to Saudi Arabia, amid growing opposition to Washington’s arms sales to the kingdom because of its atrocities against the people of Yemen...

Saeed Khatibzadeh, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman The spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry has warned against any possible act of adventurism against the country’s interests, pledging immediate, powerful, and serious response to any such move...

The file photo shows Liberian-flagged oil tanker Mercer Street off Cape Town, South Africa, in 2016...

The Liberian-flagged oil tanker Mercer Street (Photo by MarineTraffic...

US Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar US Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has been accused of pandering with Zionists after she compared the Palestinian resistance groups’ defensive acts with atrocities committed by the US, the Taliban and Israeli occupation forces...

An Iranian Navy’s helicopter landing on the deck of Makran helicopter carrier during Eqtedar-e Daryayi (Naval Strength) 99 naval drills off the southern coast of Iran on January 13, 2021...

A woman reads a prefectural decree installed on the entrance gates of the Grand Mosque of Pantin, near Paris, France, on October 20, 2020...

Forensic investigators work at the scene where fugitive Iranian judge Gholamreza Mansouri died in Bucharest, on June 19, 2020...

Iran Navy test-fires new-generation cruises missiles during drills in the Gulf of Oman and northern Indian Ocean...

File photo shows Iranian rial notes. The Iranian parliament has approved a bill to allow a major overhaul in the country’s currency rial...

A young woman in the UK suffering from anxiety and depression...

Oman’s Sultan Qaboos bin Said dies at the age of 79 after around half a century at the helm of the state amid a battle with resurgent colorectal cancer...

Joint maritime maneuvers, involving the Russian, Chinese and Iranian Navies, have entered their second day in the Indian Ocean and the Sea of Oman...

A woman in Iowa struck a teenage girl earlier this month because she believed the girl was Mexican, according to officials...

Afghan women have no choice but to hope the Taliban respect their rights for the sake of peace, said Fauzia Kofi, the first woman to lead a political party in Afghanistan...

A Russian court sentenced a US-Israeli woman to seven and a half years in jail for drug offenses on Friday, a ruling Israel condemned as disproportionate and which her family said Moscow had linked to the fate of a Russian citizen detained in Israel...

A new video posted by the website of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) shows crewmembers of a tanker hit earlier on Thursday by a suspicious blast in the Sea of Oman, after they are rescued by Iranian relief teams...

Hours after two tankers were reportedly attacked in the Sea of Oman, a flurry of international reactions poured in from various countries, companies, and political figures as well as financial markets, the gist of which follows...

Media reports say two large oil tankers have been hit by explosions in the Sea of Oman...

Crude oil futures have jumped on Thursday following reports of explosions targeting two oil tankers in the Sea of Oman...

At least three Romanian soldiers were killed or wounded in a suicide attack in southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has pardoned a jailed woman, a year after she was convicted of treason for texting about the country’s military movements near Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia, saying it was issued on humanitarian grounds...