Middle East

Three US citizens who disappeared last week in Baghdad were kidnapped and are being held by an Iranian-backed Shi'ite militia,…

Islamic State on Tuesday released 270 of an estimated 400 civilians, most of them women and children, kidnapped at the…

A media outlet associated with Islamic State on Tuesday released a eulogy for "Jihadi John", a member of the militant…

The lifting of sanctions on Iran as a result of its nuclear deal with world powers will be a harmful…

Germany wants to work with Iran to help calm regional conflicts now that the Islamic Republic is emerging from international…

As Israel frets about the lifting of sanctions on Iran and its troubled relations with the European Union, on the…

The Taliban were threatening on Tuesday to capture three key strategic districts in Afghanistan's province of Helmand as fierce fighting…

US President Barack Obama is of Shi'ite origin, according to former Dubai police chief and current head of the General…

At least 18,802 civilians were killed and another 36,245 were wounded in Iraq between the start of 2014 and October…

Libya's Presidential Council announced a new government of national accord on Tuesday aimed at uniting the country's warring factions under…