Middle East

Khartoum: Sudan's President Omar Al Bashir has ordered the release of all political prisoners held in the country, state news agency SUNA said on...

London/Dubai: Iran clamped a 10,000-euro ($12,400) ceiling on the amount of foreign currency that citizens can hold outside banks and sent police to patrol...

Beirut: Dozens of buses arrived in rebel-held northwestern Syria on Tuesday carrying Syrian insurgents who had agreed to surrender the town they controlled...

Istanbul: Singapore's Temasek and Britain's Metric Capital have bought into Nusr-Et steakhouse owner D.ream in a deal valuing the Turkish firm at...

Geneva: A suspected chemical attack on civilians in Syria is a war crime that bears the hallmarks of Bashar Al Assad's government, but its ally Russia...

Amman: Syria and its main ally Russia blamed Israel for carrying out an attack on a Syrian air base near Homs on Monday which followed reports of a poison...

London: Donald Trump will regret it if he pulls out of the nuclear deal with Iran, President Hassan Rouhani said on Monday, warning the US president that...

Baghdad: From his 13th-floor balcony in central Baghdad, Salam Atta Sabri likes to reminisce about his city's storied past - the years before Saddam...

Amman/Cairo: Syrian state TV said there were casualties in what it said was a suspected U.S. missile attack on a major air base in central Syria but the...

New York: The United Nations Security Council is likely to meet Monday afternoon over the recent chemical attack in Syria at the request of the United...