[caption id="attachment_112336" align="alignright" width="247"] An Iraqi cleric from the Yazidi religious minority looks on, on August 17, 2014 at Yazidi holy Lalish temple situated in a valley in the Shikhan Mountains, in Kurdistan's western Dohuk province (AFP Photo/Ahmad al-Rubaye)[/caption] Geneva (AFP) - The UN refugee agency said Tuesday it ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Nearly 500 boat people, mainly Syrian, have been rescued off of Italian coasts in the past 24 hours, the coastguard said Saturday. A first group of 170 saying they were Syrian were rescued after their boat began taking on water around 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the coast of Calabria, in southern Italy, AFP reported. They ...