Middle East

  With the FIFA World Cup 2018 just around the corner, featuring the participation of four Arab countries including Egypt,…

  Forces loyal to Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar said their campaign against an armed coalition of local fighters and Islamists…

  The government of Qatar took the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations’ International Court of Justice (ICJ) on…

  A storage site housing half of Baghdad’s ballot boxes from Iraq’s parliamentary election in May caught fire on Sunday,…

  Iranian President Hassan Rouhani criticized US “unilateralism” in withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal and said on Sunday he…

Clashes between troops backed by a Saudi-led coalition and the Iran-aligned Houthis intensified near Yemen’s Hodeidah over the weekend as…

  Syrian President Bashar al-Assad denied that military ally Russia was making decisions for him, but said it was natural…

The Taliban announced its first ceasefire in Afghanistan since the 2001 US invasion on Saturday, with a three-day halt in…

  Qatar’s Foreign Ministry said allowing television channels to broadcast some of the World Cup matches in Russia would only…

  At least 18 people were killed and over 90 wounded in an explosion in Baghdad’s Sadr City district on…