Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has tasked Prime Minister Hussein Arnous with forming a new government, more than two months after a presidential election, which the 55-year-old leader won with 95.1% of the votes. Assad asked former water resources minister in a presidential decree to move quickly and form a new ...
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei will formally endorse Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi as Iran’s new president on Tuesday. Raeisi will receive the presidential mandate from Ayatollah Khamenei during the endorsement ceremony, which will be attended by a number of officials. During the event, the Iranian interior minister ...