Middle East

Washington: Iran on Friday called on the United States and the European Union to help it access the global financial system, including assets that Tehran...

Damascus: Syrians voted in a parliamentary election in government-held areas of the country on Wednesday in what they called a show of support for President...

Tripoli: A suicide bomber killed a member of the security forces in Libya at a checkpoint south of Misrata on Wednesday, while five people were killed -...

Baghdad: Iraq's parliamentary speaker Salim Al Jabouri may request the dissolution of the assembly after ministers scuffled during a chaotic...

Brussels: The European Union's (EU) foreign policy chief will lead a delegation of commissioners to Tehran on Saturday for the EU executive's...

Beirut/Sydney: Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said Wednesday his government was providing support to an Australian mother and TV crew charged in...

Cairo: President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi sought to staunch an uproar on Wednesday over Egypt's unexpected decision to transfer two Red Sea islands to Saudi...

Amman: Police in Jordan sealed the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Amman on Wednesday, a senior figure in the movement said, as the authorities...

Beirut: A bomb in the southern Lebanon city of Sidon killed an official from the Palestinian Fatah movement on Tuesday, an official from the group said. The...

Baghdad: Iraq's parliament blocked a cabinet of independent technocrats Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi had proposed, as political factions forced him to...