Iran says rural road network in the country will expand by 2,000 kilometers until late March.

Syrian army liberates two more towns in the southeastern countryside of the country's Idlib province.

The Syrian army retakes more villages in the northwestern Idlib province as part of an operation to liberate the last major terrorist-held territory in the Arab country.

A car bomb kills at least eight people in a city held by Turkey-backed militants in northern Syria.

Iran says almost all villages across the country, a total of 34,090, have access to mobile phone services.

Local authorities evacuated 500 residents from the villages of Kontodespoti and Makrimalli and the monastery of Panagia Makrymallis on the Greek island of Euboea on Tuesday as fire-fighters tackled raging wildfires.

An Iranian official says just less than 0.01 percent of the country’s population lack access to electricity.

Gunmen kill 34 people in Nigeria's northern Zamfara State, where criminal gangs have been terrorizing remote villages, police say.

Allied French and Malian forces have killed 20 militants in an operation in a part of northern Mali where Daesh operates.

At least 43 people have been killed after gunmen, riding motorbikes, attacked villages in northern Nigeria.