World / Middle East

Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian speaks during a news conference in Moscow, Russia, September 22, 2015. Reuters/Maxim Zmeyev   By Parisa Hafezi and...

Baghdad: Torrential rain caused chaos across several parts of Iraq on Thursday, with the water causing thigh-high flooding on some Baghdad streets and...

Riyadh: Minister of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir emphasized the importance of finding a solution for the Syrian crisis...

Mogadishu: A cargo airplane with around 10 crew members has crash landed in Somalia in territory controlled by the Islamist Shebab insurgents outside...

Vienna: Key players in the diplomatic push to end the Syrian war were to meet Thursday seeking common ground over a political transition,...

Beirut: A "significant increase" of air strikes on Syrian hospitals recently has killed at least 35 patients and medical staff and wounded 72,...

Turkish police clash with supporters and employees of Bugun newspaper and Kanalturk television station holding up umbrellas during a protest in Istanbul against...

Jerusalem: Israeli lawmakers voted Wednesday to make Arabic classes compulsory for students from the age of six, in a move backers hoped would...

Riyadh: Saudi Deputy Crown Prince, Second Deputy Premier and Minister of Defense met here today with British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond. During the...

Rabat: Thousands of Moroccan medical students took to the streets of Rabat Wednesday to protest a bill that would institute mandatory two-year civil...

    Moscow: Russian warplanes have struck 118 "terrorist" targets in Syria over the past 24 hours in a new record, the defence ministry said...

first lieutenant and spokesman for the Ministry of Defense of Libya, speaks during a press conference in the capital Tripoli on October 27,...

 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, addresses the UN Human Rights Council during a meeting at the European headquarters of the United Nations, in Geneva,...

An Israeli border guards holds a camouflaged weapon during clashes with Palestinian youths in the West Bank town of Al-Bireh on October 27,...

Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that it would start vaccine treatments for cholera beginning this weekend to prevent further outbreaks in...

Police detain a protester as they confront protesters near the headquarters of a media company with alleged linked to a government critic, where...

Tehran: Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will this week join international talks aimed at ending the four-year conflict in Syria, a top...

Damascus: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad renewed his accusation that Western states including France are supporting "terrorist" groups in his country's conflict, at a...