Middle East

Turkish troops dug in on the country’s southern border on Tuesday and turned their weapons toward Kurdish-run northern Iraq, where…

Iraq’s ethnically-mixed and contested city of Kirkuk was on a nighttime curfew on Tuesday after clashes erupted there the previous…

Migrants rescued in the Mediterranean last week said they had been lucky to dodge increased sea and police patrols along…

The US has voted to freeze arms sales to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s security guards. The move comes after…

Insurgent groups launched a big attack on government-held areas in northwestern Syria on Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights…

Kuwait says an oil spill has been spotted near the site of a similar spill off its southern coast in…

India’s home ministry said on Monday it would confidentially share intelligence information with the Supreme Court showing Rohingya links with…

Yemeni medical officials and tribesmen say an airstrike this weekend by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s Shia rebels killed 12…

Former managers and columnists of a newspaper in Turkey linked to a US-based cleric have gone on trial, accused of…

Opposition activists say Syrian government troops battling the Islamic State group have crossed to the eastern bank of the Euphrates…