Middle East

Beirut: The Syrian opposition will meet in 10 days' time to decide who to send to future peace talks after its chief negotiator resigned, a spokesman...

Tripoli: Turkey's foreign minister said during a visit to Tripoli on Monday that his country hoped to be the first to reopen its embassy in the Libyan...

Southern Outskirts of Falluja: The Iraqi army stormed to the southern edge of Falluja under US air support on Monday and captured a police station inside...

Baghdad: More than 20 people were killed and about 50 injured in three bombings, including two suicide attacks, that hit Baghdad on Monday, police and...

Dubai: Iran has given foreign messaging apps a year to move data they hold about Iranian users onto servers inside the country, prompting privacy and...

Dubai: Moderate conservative Ali Larijani was re-elected on Sunday as the temporary speaker of Iran's new parliament which is dominated by first-term...

Misrata (Libya): Forces loyal to Libya's UN-backed unity government say they aim to encircle Sirte, IS's stronghold in Libya, having moved to within...

Amman: Jordan's King Abdullah appointed veteran politician Hani Mulqi as caretaker prime minister on Sunday after dissolving parliament as its four-year...

Beirut/Ankara: Fighting between IS militants and Syrian rebels near the Turkish border has killed dozens of people in the last two days, as IS militants...

The Hague: European authorities are seeking testimony from some of the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing Middle East violence as they try to build...