Middle East

Forces loyal to Libya's U.N.-backed unity government say they aim to encircle Sirte, Islamic State's stronghold in Libya, having moved…

Jordan's King Abdullah appointed veteran politician Hani Mulqi as caretaker prime minister on Sunday after dissolving parliament as its four-year…

The Japanese government said on Monday it was doing all it could to secure the release of a Japanese journalist…

An Iranian delegation has left Saudi Arabia without an agreement for its citizens to attend the Muslim haj pilgrimage this…

Ministers and members of parliament belonging to Lebanon's Hezbollah could be sanctioned under a new U.S. law targeting the group's…

The United States is "two-faced" for refusing to call the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia terrorists, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu…

Iran has stayed within the limits of a nuclear deal it reached with world powers last year on its stockpiles…

Islamic State fighters captured territory from Syrian rebels near the Turkish border on Friday and inched closer to a town…

Al-Qaeda may have been pushed out of the enclave it carved out in Yemen as the country descended into civil…

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called for vigilance against what he called a "soft war" mounted by the West…