Middle East

Dubai: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will not run for president in next year's Iranian election, he said on Tuesday, bowing to the wishes of supreme leader...

Cairo: Thirty-three bodies were recovered on Tuesday as a wreck of boat that sank off Egypt last week with hundreds of migrants aboard was lifted from the...

Gaza: When Palestinian fisherman Abu Mohammed came under pressure to become an informer for Israeli intelligence, the 45-year-old father of five took a...

Dubai: Iran's supreme leader has told former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad not to stand again in next year's elections, state media reported on...

Cairo: President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi on Monday pledged more jobs for Egyptians to help dissuade them from making dangerous voyages to Europe after more...

United Nations: The United States on Sunday called Russia's action in Syria "barbarism" not counter-terrorism while Moscow's UN envoy said...

New York: Libya's prime minister called for a national reconciliation initiative to repair the divisions in a fragmented country reeling from the...

Amman: Warplanes bombed a strategic camp on the northern edge of Aleppo on Sunday as Syrian government forces, backed by Russia, battled rebels for control...

Amman: A gunman shot dead Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar on Sunday outside the court where he was to stand trial on charges of contempt of religion after...

New York: John Kerry had heard enough. After last week's bombing of a UN aid convoy in Syria dealt a death blow to a ceasefire deal in which he had...