The Iran-backed Hezbollah movement said yesterday it had downed and seized an Israeli drone as it flew across the Lebanese border, a week after a flash confrontation between the arch-foes.

Iran’s atomic agency chief yesterday hit out at European powers, saying their broken promises gave the Islamic republic little choice

Muslim rebels in the mainly Catholic Philippines began handing over their guns to independent foreign monitors yesterday, as part of a

Iran yesterday said it was now capable of raising uranium enrichment past the 20% level and had launched advanced centrifuge

A Taliban suicide blast in the centre of Kabul killed at least 10 people and wounded more than 40 yesterday, destroying cars and shops in an area near the headquarters of Afghanistan’s Nato force and the US embassy, officials said.

Iran said it would take another step away from a 2015 nuclear deal by starting to develop centrifuges to speed up its uranium enrichment but it also gave European powers two more months to try to save the multilateral pact.

President Hassan Rouhani yesterday ruled out holding any bilateral talks with the United States and threatened to further cut Iran’s

The US envoy leading efforts to forge a deal with the Taliban has met with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in Kabul, officials said

Israel’s military said yesterday anti-tank missiles from Lebanon targeted an army base and vehicles and that it responded with fire into

More than 100 people are believed to have been killed when the Saudi-led coalition fighting Huthi rebels launched an air strike on a

At least 40 jihadist leaders were killed yesterday in Syria after a missile attack targeted their meeting in the northwestern province of

Afghan security forces “repelled” a coordinated Taliban assault on the northern city of Kunduz yesterday, President Ashraf Ghani said,

Syria and its ally Russia have stepped up an offensive against the last big stronghold of Syrian rebels, mounting more air raids and deploying ground reinforcements including Iranian-backed militias, army defectors and residents said yesterday.

Clashes between anti-government fighters and regime forces killed 51 combattants on both sides in northwestern Syria yesterday, a war

Iran will not talk to the United States until all sanctions imposed on Tehran are lifted, President Hassan Rouhani said yesterday, a day after President Donald Trump said he would meet his Iranian counterpart to try to end a nuclear standoff.

Israeli drone strikes hit a military position belonging to an Iranian-backed Palestinian faction in Lebanon’s Bekaa valley near the Syrian

Israel yesterday said an air strike against an arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in Syria that it accused of planning “killer drone

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said two Israeli drones which crashed in a suburb of Beirut dominated by the Iranian-backed

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif flew into Biarritz in southern France for the G7 summit yesterday in an unexpected and

Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said yesterday that Turkish troops will not quit a military observation post in northwestern Syria where they are surrounded by government forces.