Middle East

France accused the Syrian government on Wednesday of obstructing UN-led peace talks with its refusal to return to Geneva and…

Pope Francis, speaking hours before US President Donald Trump’s announcement on Jerusalem, called on Wednesday for the city’s “status quo”…

Tuesday’s meeting between Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Qatar’s ruling Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani was…

In an urgent meeting held on Tuesday, the Arab League’s council urged the international community to commit to United Nations…

A Saudi-led coalition intensified air strikes on Yemen early on Wednesday as the armed Houthi movement tightened its grip on…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said that militants of the Islamic State (IS) group who were based in its Syrian ‘capital’, Raqqa,…

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi told U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday there was no need to “complicate” matters in…

A planned two-day meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) ended just hours after it began, amid reports of a…

A bomb blast killed eight people and injured 16 others on a bus in Syria’s Homs on Tuesday, state media…

The United Nations migration agency is stepping up the rate at which it flies migrants home from Libya, aiming to…