Middle East

The Saudi-led coalition battling rebels in Yemen says an airstrike that killed at least 14 civilians, including eight members of…

The Islamic State news agency Aamaq has claimed the Brussels attacker who assaulted three soldiers with a knife as an…

Human rights activists are urging Afganistan’s President Ashraf Ghani to expand anti-torture laws enacted months ago to allow victims abused…

A ceasefire took effect on Sunday in an Islamic State pocket straddling the Syria-Lebanon border, where the jihadists have been…

Pakistan’s government says results from a recently conducted national census show the country’s population has risen to 207.7 million. Friday’s…

Half of the estimated 20,000 people trapped in Syria’s northern city of Raqqa are children, an official with the UN…

The number of people killed in an attack on a Shia mosque in the Afghan capital during Friday prayers rose…

Just a couple of weeks into her appointment, the new Iranian vice president’s decision to abandon her fashion style for…

Gunmen stormed a Shia mosque in the Afghan capital while worshippers were at Friday prayers, setting off an explosion that…

Airstrikes by a Saudi-led coalition targeted Yemen’s capital early on Friday, hitting at least three houses in Sanaa and killing…