Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Head of the UN General Assembly Maria Fernanda Espinosa in a meeting in New York discussed the role of the UNGA in solving international problems.

Some victims of a Saudi mass execution made impassioned pleas to the courts that their confessions were false and obtained under torture in a bid to save their lives but were still beheaded, a media report said on Friday.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Abbas Mousavi underlined that his country is serious with its proposal to Washington to swap the two countries' prisoners, blasting the US State Department for hasty reactions and lack of understanding the concept of talks.

Afghan civilians are for the first time being killed in greater numbers by US and pro-government forces than by the Taliban and other insurgent groups, a US report released on Wednesday revealed.

The execution of 37 people marks an alarming escalation in Saudi Arabia’s use of the death penalty 'to crush dissent from within the country’s Shi’a minority', said Amnesty International on Wednesday.

Defendant #5 was sleeping in his father’s arms when his name was called.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the US administration’s hostile attempts to block Iran’s oil sales will lead nowhere, and that the country will export “as much crude as it needs and wishes” in defiance of American sanctions.

Iranian Permanent Ambassador to the United Nations Majid Takht-e Ravanchi presented his credentials to UN Secretary General António Guterres.

The United States military has been allowing members of Daesh (known as ISIL/ISIS) and their weapons into Afghanistan following the terror group's recent defeats in Syria and Iraq, a new report suggested, raising serious questions about Washington’s future plans for the country.

A suburban Fort Worth couple in the US state of Texas has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison each for enslaving a Guinean girl for 16 years.