Middle East

Italy's coast guard said more than 900 migrants were rescued in four separate operations in the Strait of Sicily on…

Dozens of people were killed in a series of air strikes on the city of Raqqa in northern Syria on…

Iran wants to discuss greater economic cooperation with neighboring Turkey and regional crisis in talks in Istanbul on Saturday, Tehran's…

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen may be responsible for "international crimes", a category that includes war crimes and crimes…

Supporters of Iraq's powerful Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr began a sit-in outside the walls of Baghdad's fortified Green Zone…

French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said he would meet Libyan Prime Minister-designate Fayez Seraj on Friday to see how the…

The spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition battling the Iran-allied Houthis in Yemen has been quoted as saying major fighting in…

A 26-year-old American man who was captured by Kurdish forces in Iraq earlier this week, said he had traveled from…

Syria's three Kurdish-controlled autonomous regions voted on Thursday to approve the establishment of a federal system in the north of…

Vladimir Putin said Russia's military success in Syria had allowed him to order a partial draw down of forces, but…