Foreign sanctions cannot affect Iran’s defensive system, Chairman of Iran’s Majlis (parliament) National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Hossein Naqavi H

Although recent talks on Syria have not resulted in any breakthrough agreements the negotiations should continue in the same vein, UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said in a briefing on Monday, Sputnik reported.

The city council of France's Lyon on Monday elected 68-year-old Georges Kepenekian, Armenian by origin, as mayor of the city.

President Ilham Aliyev has attended business forum held in Riga.

Azerbaijani state oil company SOCAR has completed the work on reconstruction of platform #11 at the Gunashli field in the Caspian Sea, SOCAR said in a message July 17.

The brother and close advisor of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was transferred to hospital on his second day of detention, according to reports on Iranian news sites, Reuters reports.

Yerevan-based prominent civil rights activist Vardges Gaspari carried out Friday morning a lie-in protest at the Baghramyan-Demirchyan intersection in Yerevan –

Five Egyptian policemen were killed and six wounded on Monday by two roadside explosions in the restive Sinai Peninsula, security sources told Reuters.

The Turkish parliament approved the bill on the extension of the state of emergency for three more months, Anadolu agency reported July 17.

The two-month-old is the son of a Syrian couple who fled war-torn Damascus to resettle in Canada.