Middle East

Dubai: A former employee of the French embassy in Tehran has been arrested at the airport after arriving in Iran to visit her critically ill mother, the...

Beirut: The Syrian government on Saturday ruled out discussion of presidential elections or the position of the presidency at peace talks due to begin on...

Beirut: Syria's main opposition group said it would attend peace talks on Monday but accused the government of President Bashar Al Assad of preparing to...

Baghdad: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi asked political blocs in parliament and "influential social figures" to nominate technocrats as...

Brussels: European Union foreign ministers are considering sanctions on three Libyans they see as blocking efforts by the United Nations to form a...

Beirut/Geneva: The main Syrian opposition council said on Wednesday the agenda proposed by the United Nations for peace talks was positive and it had noted...

Dubai: Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) test-fired two ballistic missiles on Wednesday that it said were designed to be able to hit...

Tunis: Tunisian troops have killed 10 hardline militants around Ben Guerdan on the Libyan border after an IS attack on Monday that killed at least 55...

Geneva/Diyarbakir (Turkey): The UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura plans to start substantive peace talks by March 14, his spokeswoman said on Tuesday, five...

Dubai/Washington: Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) test-fired several ballistic missiles from silos across the country on Tuesday, state...