Middle East

PARIS, Oct 9 (Reuters) – Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, who became Iran’s first president after the 1979 Islamic revolution before fleeing into…

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s elections on Sunday come with enormous challenges: Iraq’s economy has been battered by years of conflict,…

DAMASCUS, Oct 8 (Reuters) – Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad has allowed his exiled uncle Rifaat to return to Syria, pro-government…

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Senior Taliban officials and US representatives are to hold talks Saturday and Sunday about containing extremist groups…

ABU DIS, West Bank (AP) — More than a year after his son was killed by Israeli forces under disputed…

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A blast went off Friday at a mosque packed with Shia Muslim worshippers in northern Afghanistan,…

BEIRUT, Oct 8 (Reuters) – Lebanon’s central bank denied on Friday a Swiss newspaper report that alleged the International Monetary…

DUBAI. United Arab Emirates (AP) — The death toll from Cyclone Shaheen that crashed through Oman rose Thursday to 14…

JERUSALEM (AP) — A ruling by a local Israeli court in favor of a Jewish man who prayed quietly at…

GENEVA, Oct 7 (Reuters) – Bahrain, Russia and other members of the U.N. Human Rights Council pushed through a vote…