Azerbaijan and Karabakh separatists have held their first direct peace talks as Baku claims full control of the breakaway region.

Iran’s IRGC chief says separatists and traitors will never feel safe anywhere in the country because the Iranian nation will not tolerate any schemes to undermine their independence.

The Russian foreign minister says the US is playing with fire in the Kurdish-populated regions between Iraq and Syria as it promotes separatism there.

Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)’s Ground Force has conducted a new round of drone and missile strikes against strongholds of hostile separatist terror groups based in Iraq’s semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan.

The IRGC says it is bolstering its forces in Iran’s northwestern region to combat separatist groups and firmly confront terrorist outfits in the restive area.

China says it reserves the right to use force over Chinese Taipei as a last resort in compelling circumstances, though peaceful reunification is its first choice.

An informed Iranian intelligence source says two members of a group affiliated with the al-Qaida terrorist outfit have been killed in latest clashes in the country’s southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan.