Egypt on Saturday opened two ancient pyramids south of the capital Cairo and unveiled a collection of newly found sarcophagi, some

Saudi Arabia, Russia and 35 other states have written to the United Nations supporting China’s policies in its western region of Xinjiang,

Attackers entered a hotel in western Afghanistan yesterday and killed at least three security forces in an ongoing incident, an official told

The winner and runner-up in Indonesia’s presidential election which sparked deadly riots in the capital called for reconciliation

Fifty-one people were injured and several homes, churches and other buildings damaged yesterday when an earthquake sent terrified

A US service member was killed in action in Afghanistan yesterday, Nato said, the latest international casualty that comes as the US tries

Gibraltar police have said that all four crew members of the Iranian Grace 1 tanker have been released on bail without charge after it was detained last week on suspicion of breaking European sanctions by taking oil to Syria.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged Wednesday not to dismantle even the remotest Jewish settlement in the West Bank, in

Regime and jihadist-led forces were locked in clashes yesterday on the edge of an opposition bastion in northwest Syria after a jihadist-led advance that killed 71 fighters overnight, a monitor said.

Regime and jihadist-led forces were locked in clashes yesterday on the edge of an opposition bastion in northwest Syria after a jihadist-led advance that killed 71 fighters overnight, a monitor said.

Three Iranian vessels tried to block a BP-operated tanker passing through the Strait of Hormuz but backed off when confronted by a Royal Navy warship, the UK government said yesterday.

Diplomatic fallout over journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder appears to be slowing the flow of high-rolling Saudis to Turkey, as calls grow within the oil-rich kingdom to boycott the holiday magnet.

The United Nations human rights expert who conducted an independent probe into the murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Tuesday urged the US to act on her damning findings.

Now is the “right moment” for peace in Afghanistan, President Ashraf Ghani said yesterday as he once more called on the Taliban to

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani yesterday warned Britain of “consequences” over the detention of an Iranian oil tanker off the coast of Gibraltar.

Prominent rights lawyer Amal Clooney says she will join the legal team defending Philippine journalist Maria Ressa, whose news site has

US and Taliban officials will resume talks in Qatar aimed at ending Afghanistan’s 18-year war, hours after a delegation of Afghan

The sister of the crown prince of Saudi Arabia goes on trial yesterday in a French court over the alleged beating of a workman who was

Dozens of powerful Afghans yesterday resumed talks with the Taliban in Doha, where a possible ceasefire is on the table along with key

The United Arab Emirates said yesterday it was redeploying and reducing troops across war-torn Yemen and moving from a “military-