Middle East

Iraq's main Shi'ite groups on Sunday voiced support for Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's plan to overhaul the government and combat…

The United States has nearly finished setting up an air base in Kurdish-controlled northern Syria and was proceeding with the…

Turkey and Iran, two countries on opposite sides of Syria's civil war, agreed they must cooperate to end sectarian strife,…

The Taliban said on Saturday it would not take part in peace talks brokered by representatives of Afghanistan, Pakistan, China…

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon visited Sahrawi refugee camps in southern Algeria on Saturday as part of efforts to restart…

Gunmen attacked an old people's home in the Yemeni port of Aden on Friday, killing at least 15 people, including…

Humanitarian aid on Friday reached areas near the Syrian capital Damascus where fighting has been going on between rebels and…

Destruction in Ramadi is "staggering" and worse than anywhere else in Iraq, a UN team concluded this week after making…

A Palestinian woman rammed her car into an Israeli soldier in the occupied West Bank on Friday and was then…

War-torn Syria was hit Thursday by a nationwide power cut, state television reported, but the cause was not immediately known. "Electricity…