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Iran stands ready to help Iraq's government in its fight against Sunni Muslim insurgents within the framework of international law,…

Forty-nine Ukrainian military personnel were killed when rebels shot down a cargo plane during the night over the airport of…

At least 50,000 Syrian refugee children in Lebanon are working, often in dire conditions and for 12 hours a day,…

Iran is "busy redesigning" a planned research reactor to sharply cut its potential output of plutonium - a potential nuclear…

Iraqi Kurds seized control of the northern oil city of Kirkuk on Thursday, while surging Sunni Islamist rebels advanced towards…

A Pakistani court on Thursday ordered to remove former military ruler Pervez Musharraf's name from a no-fly list in 15…

Sunni insurgents from an al Qaeda splinter group closed in on Iraq's biggest oil refinery on Wednesday after seizing the…

Russia and Ukraine resumed efforts to settle their gas price row on Wednesday after Kiev rejected a proposal that would…

Pro-Russian separatists attacked Ukrainian military checkpoints and other strategic points in eastern Ukraine overnight but they were beaten off with…

Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kidnapped at least 20 young mothers near a town in northeast Nigeria where more than 200 schoolgirls…