Middle East

Tripoli: Fashionable cafes springing up in Libya's capital are shutting out single men and catering for women looking for a break from the tensions -...

Abu Dhabi: Iran is fulfilling its commitments under the nuclear deal with world powers and U.N. inspectors are facing no problems in their verification...

Baghdad: Iraqi Kurdish political parties opposed to Masoud Barzani, the outgoing Kurdistan region leader, reported attacks on their offices in several...

Erbil/Baghdad: Iraqi Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani informed the region's parliament on Sunday that he would give up his position as president on...

Baghdad: Iraqi forces and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters on Sunday started a second round of talks to resolve a conflict over control of the Kurdistan...

Occupied Jerusalem: U.S. pressure delayed an Israeli ministerial vote on Sunday on a proposed bill that Washington fears entails annexation of Jewish...

Cairo: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi appointed a new armed forces chief of staff on Saturday, and the interior ministry dismissed several...

Dubai: Iran will continue to produce missiles for its defence and does not consider that a violation of international accords, President Hassan Rouhani said...

Tripoli: Across Libya's capital residents have started drilling through pavements to access wells in a desperate search for water after the taps ran dry...

Baghdad: Iraqi forces are about to launch an offensive to recapture the last patch of Iraqi territory still in the hands of IS, the military said on...