VOA — ISLAMABAD – Senior leaders of Afghanistan’s Taliban insurgency traveled to Iran Tuesday to “exchange views” on U.S.-brokered peace negotiations between warring Afghan parties.   Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh... Read more »

VOA — How relations between the United States and Iran will take shape under the new Biden administration remains to be seen, but one U.S. general says the two foes are entering... Read more »

VOA — WASHINGTON – Prominent Iran-based and Iranian diaspora critics of Tehran’s Islamist rulers have differing expectations about how far U.S. President Joe Biden will go to implement his promised new approach... Read more »

The end of the Trump era has caused a collective but cautious sigh of relief in Iran. Some in the Gulf region feared that in the dying days of his presidency Donald... Read more »

VOA — DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – Twitter said Friday it has permanently banned an account that some in Iran believe is linked to the office of the country’s supreme leader after... Read more »

DW — Anyone flying to the US will be required to present a negative coronavirus test before departing and quarantine on arrival. Biden presented the plans in a speech launching his administration’s... Read more »

BBC — Amanda Gorman has become the youngest poet ever to perform at a presidential inauguration, calling for “unity and togetherness” in her self-penned poem. The 22-year-old delivered her work The Hill... Read more »

VOA — LONDON – The inauguration of Joe Biden represents not only a new chapter for the United States, but for the world. For allies and adversaries alike, new relationships with the... Read more »

VOA — The head of the World Health Organization says the world is “on the brink of a moral catastrophic failure” for its unequal sharing of COVID-19 vaccinations.  Addressing a WHO executive... Read more »