Middle East

Turkey has met fewer than half the conditions for its citizens to be granted early visa-free travel to the European…

Campaigning for Iran's parliamentary runoffs next week began on Thursday, state radio reported, when allies of President Hassan Rouhani and…

Up to 500 migrants may have drowned in the Mediterranean last week when human traffickers crammed people onto an already…

With a thick black marker pen in hand, Palestinian graffiti artist Belal Khaled carefully draws an intricate Arabic calligraphic design…

Islamic State militants seized Syrian government-controlled territory in the eastern Syrian city of Deir al-Zor on Tuesday, a war monitor…

Syrian peace talks appeared all but doomed on Tuesday after air strikes killed about 40 people in a crowded vegetable…

Turkish authorities at Istanbul airport denied entry on Tuesday to a German public television journalist who arrived from Cairo and…

US Vice President Joe Biden on Monday acknowledged "overwhelming frustration" with the Israeli government and said the systemic expansion of…

The Syrian government's chief negotiator said President Bashar al-Assad's future was not up for discussion at peace talks, underlining the…

South Korean President Park Geun-hye will make a state visit to Iran from May 1 to 3 to meet President…