TEHRAN, Jan. 3 (UPI) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has shaken up his administration with the dismissal of 14 advisers, Iranian media reported Sunday.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inaugurated a new policy on Tuesday to encourage population growth, dismissing Iran’s decades of internationally-acclaimed family planning as ungodly and a Western import. The new government initiative will...

Iranian police say they have arrested 50 people during clashes between opposition supporters and police in Tehran during a new year festival. The Feast of Fire comes on the eve of the Persian new year, but religious leaders had told Iranians...

Thousands of pro-government Iranians are rallying to mark the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the rally Iran’s enemies were using the nuclear issue and that of human rights to dominate the...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday vowed never to allow Israeli leaders or soldiers to stand trial on war crimes charges over their actions during last winter’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip, furiously denouncing a U.N. report in a...

A town in northern Italy has banned women from wearing the “burqini” favored by conservative Muslim women, Al Arabiya reports. The anti-immigration mayor barred the burqini and said women wearing them to pools or the beach would be...

Defiant opposition supporters will return to the streets of Tehran today, emboldened by tales of prison abuse and an eruption of hostilities between President Ahmadinejad and his fellow hardliners. The occasion is the passing of 40 days — the...

Iranians vote on Friday in aparliamentary election that conservatives are expected to winafter many opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad werebarred from running as candidates. Many pro-reform politicians, the staunchest critics of thehardline...