At least 40 civilians attending a wedding party are killed by explosions and gunfire during a raid by US-backed Afghan government forces on a nearby Islamist militant hideout, officials in Helmand province say.

The United Nations envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths welcomed Saturday an offer from the country’s Huthi rebels to halt all attacks on

Israel was set for crucial discussions yesterday on who should try to form the next government as last week’s deadlocked election

Egyptian security forces, for the second consecutive night ,clashed with hundreds of anti-government protesters in the port city of

Twelve civilians were killed and five were wounded Friday in a bomb blast on a bus at the northern edge of the Iraqi Shia holy city of

Rare small protests were staged overnight in Cairo and other Egyptian cities calling for the removal of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi,

Yemen’s Huthi rebels unexpectedly announced late Friday that they planned to halt all attacks on Saudi Arabia as part of a peace

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main challenger Benny Gantz were deadlocked yesterday after an Israeli general election, reports said, raising the possibility of a unity government or even the end of the premier’s long rule.

US President Donald Trump yesterday said he ordered a major increase in sanctions on Iran as Saudi Arabia displayed remnants of drones and missiles it said Tehran used in a crippling weekend attack on its oil facilities.

Israeli security personnel shot a Palestinian woman who tried to stab them at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank yesterday, Israeli police said, and Palestinian officials said she died of her injury. The West Bank, among territories where Palestinians seek statehood, has

Twenty people, including children, were killed yesterday in the southern Philippines when the flatbed truck they were riding in

Iran has charged three detained Australians with spying, Tasnim news agency reported yesterday, citing judiciary spokesman

Israel voted in its second election in five months yesterday that will decide whether to extend Prime Minister Benjamin

Israel begins voting in its second election in five months that will decide whether to extend Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's term as the country's longest-serving prime minister despite corruption allegations against him.

Indonesia has arrested nearly 200 people over vast forest fires ripping across the archipelago, police said yesterday, as toxic haze sends

Afghan security forces, backed by US air strikes, killed two of the movement’s shadow provincial governors on Sunday, as fighting

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Sunday expressed its “total rejection” of the Israeli prime minister’s pre-election

Fires broke out at two Saudi Aramco oil facilities after they were struck by drones, the kingdom's interior ministry has said.

President Hassan Rouhani yesterday said that the United States’ “warmongering” was a failure, as Iran welcomed the sacking of hawkish US national security adviser John Bolton.

At least 31 people die and another 100 are wounded during the Shi'ite Muslim religious rituals of Ashura in Iraq's southern holy city of Kerbala, in what an official at its Imam Hussein shrine describes as a stampede.