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Washington and its five negotiating partners concluded the nuclear negotiations with Iran in Vienna on July 14.

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini arrived for a one-day visit to discuss implementation of an agreement for Iran to curtail its nuclear program in return for lifting sanctions against the country, state TV reported. And it’s what keeps the Saudi leadership up at...

Earlier, Mogherini and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said they were exploring cooperation in key areas such as the fight against Islamic State militants now that the nuclear deal has been struck. In September, Austrian President Heinz Fischer plans to visit Iran,...

He extended an invitation from French President François Hollande to his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani to visit Paris in November.

Greece’s Supreme Court has forwarded complaints filed by a prosecutor and a mayor to parliament.

But instead of taking a harder line with the creditors, Tsipras and a majority of the cabinet decided to put forward a proposal capitulating to EU and European Central Bank demands for additional austerity measures in a country whose economy has contracted 25 percent since 2010.

Regardless of opinions about whether a deal is good or bad, the lift in sanctions that would accompany any deal opens up Iranian oil to the marketplace and changes the economic dynamics in the world as well as the region.

On Monday, the Greek finance minister confirmed following the government council’s meeting on economic policy that the intense talks on technical issues will begin on Tuesday.

But we know that we are again at a historic crossroads, and that the United States can either appease a criminal regime – one that supports global terror, relentlessly threatens to eliminate Israel and executes more political prisoners than any other per capita – or...

Zarif urged GCC states to cooperate against the common threat of “terrorism, extremism and sectarianism”.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras managed to push through a series of unpopular reforms demanded by the country’s worldwide creditors, while on the streets of Athens anti-austerity protests turned raging as protesters threw firebombs at police.

Kerry told the Council on Foreign Relations think tank in New York that “we have to change the dynamic in Syria” to kill off radical Islamic State, which has declared a caliphate in swathes of territory it has seized in Syria and Iraq.

The accord would put Iran under “intense scrutiny forever” and ensure that its nuclear activities “remain wholly peaceful”, he said.

He said there is more chance of a nuclear arms race in the Middle East without the recently negotiated deal.

Europe moved to re-open funding to Greece’s stricken economy on Thursday after the parliament in Athens approved a new bailout program in a fractious vote that left the government without a majority.