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Criminal cases have been filed against two Turkish men accused of crimes related to evading Iran sanctions and credit irregularities received from banks in the U.S., with New York prosecutor Preet Bharara presenting indictments against them on March 24. Bharara is also conducting the investigation into controversial businessman Reza Zarrab, who was at the center of Turkey's December 2013 corrup

Today is Women’s Day and the females are celebrated for their central role in our society. Sometimes a sense of perspective and comparison can really make us think a little more and become grounded in reality.

I was recently in Tehran on a day trip. There was a fresh feeling in the air, a kind of happiness that bubbles over and makes you anxious. It was as if Iran is about to get married to globalization. It is the night before and the country has a collective bellyache.

Elections that took place in Iran on Feb. 26 have ended with the victory of the so-called moderates against the hardliners.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani won an emphatic vote of confidence and reformist partners secured surprise gains in parliament in early results from elections that could accelerate the Islamic Republic's emergence from years of isolation. 

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a surprise stopover in Pakistan on Dec. 25 to meet his counterpart, Nawaz Sharif, the first time an Indian premier has visited the rival nation in over a decade. 

90 students in the Philippines streaked accross their campus grounds in a protest organized by Alpha Phi Omega fraternity as part of an annual run to call for transparency in the country’s anti-corruption policies.

A Japanese Garden that was created 22 years ago by the Japanese government at a museum in the Central Anatolian province of K?r?ehir's Kaman district, has received 45,000 visitors over the past 11 months, already surpassing the total figure from last year. 

During the times when Pakistan and Bangladesh were still one and this journalist was still a young beginner of the profession, there was a Pakistani journalist, Hossain Shahadat, who spared time and energy to explain the deliquescence of souls in the Indus River...

Dictators come in many shapes and sizes: Some are fat, like Uganda's Idi Amin; others skinny, like Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew. Some, like the Philippines' Ferdinand Marcos, are of medium-build and without any facial hair, while others, like Adolf Hitler, are vertically challenged with a moustache. Yet others have a moustache and are taller.