Middle East

About five million people in Kurdish-held areas of northern Iraq will be summoned to take part in a non-binding referendum…

A Saudi cleric who said women should not drive because their brains shrink to a quarter the size of a…

Syrians voted on Friday in an election organized by the Kurdish-led authorities of northern Syria, the start of a three-phase…

Two rockets struck near Damascus airport at dawn on Friday, Lebanese TV station al-Mayadeen reported, an attack it said had…

Iraq launched an offensive on Thursday to dislodge Islamic State from Hawija, west of the oil city of Kirkuk and…

Turkey, Iran and Iraq have agreed to consider counter-measures against Kurdish northern Iraq over a planned independence referendum, Turkey’s state-run…

The United States said on Wednesday it is weighing whether the Iranian nuclear deal serves its security interests even as…

Russia said on Thursday it had warned the United States it would target areas in Syria where US special forces…

Russia is “extremely concerned” by US President Donald Trump’s comments questioning the Iran nuclear deal and suspects that Washington itself…

A large Saudi public university announced it would dismiss employees suspected of ties to the banned Muslim Brotherhood, adding to…