Middle East

The Arab League chose former Egyptian foreign minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit on Thursday as its new secretary-general, after diplomats said…

Major powers close to UN-brokered peace talks on Syria are discussing the possibility of a federal division of the war-torn…

Iraq's powerful Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr wants Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to stay in power but replace his cabinet with…

A hold-up over a new US defense package for Israel was behind Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to forgo a…

More than 40 people suffered partial choking and skin irritation in northern Iraq when Islamic State fired mortar shells and…

For the second time since Europe's migration crisis began last year, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has stunned her European Union…

A delegation from the Houthi movement is in Saudi Arabia for talks on ending Yemen's war, two senior officials said,…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declined an offer to meet US President Barack Obama at the White House later…

Turkey's top-selling newspaper Zaman plans to continue publishing as an opposition daily in Germany after it was taken over by…

The Arab League said on Monday that Egypt has presented Ahmed Abul Gheit, ex-president Hosni Mubarak's last foreign minister, as…