Iran will announce an increase in uranium enrichment to 5%, a concentration above the limit set by its 2015 nuclear deal, an Iranian official tells Reuters, in a move signalling a deepening challenge to escalating US sanctions pressure.

The UN Security Council called Friday for a ceasefire in Libya as the death toll from a three-month offensive on Tripoli reached 1,000,

Syrian regime bombardment has killed 14 civilians including seven children in northwestern Syria, a war monitor said yesterday, in the

At least 14 people were killed and dozens more wounded when a busy market in northern Afghanistan was hit by mortar fire, officials

The ancient city of Babylon, first referenced in a clay tablet from the 23rd century BC, is designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, after a vote that followed decades of lobbying by Iraq.

The casualty toll of an air strike on a detention camp for migrants near the Libyan capital has climbed to 53 dead and 130 wounded, the

Unesco’s World Heritage Committee voted yesterday to list the sprawling Mesopotamian metropolis of Babylon as a World Heritage Site

Iran summoned the British ambassador in Tehran over the “illegal seizure” of an Iranian oil tanker in Gibraltar yesterday, Iranian state TV

Two hundred corpses, including those of people believed to have been executed by the Islamic State group, were found near the Syrian

International condemnation mounted yesterday after more than 40 migrants were killed in an air strike on a detention centre in Libya that the UN-recognised government blamed on rival strongman Khalifa Haftar.

Iran ignored US and EU warnings yesterday and announced it will exceed the maximum enrichment level it agreed for uranium within days in response to the failure of the other parties to a 2015 nuclear deal to provide it with promised relief from sanctions.

At least 50 people were killed in Nigeria when fuel from a crashed truck that they were siphoning up caught fire, a spokesman for the

A Yemeni rebel attack on a civilian airport in southern Saudi Arabia wounded nine civilians yesterday, a Riyadh-led coalition said, the

Afghan security forces killed five Taliban gunmen who stormed a building in Kabul yesterday after detonating a bomb-laden truck that

Iran has breached the limit of its enriched uranium stockpile set in a 2015 deal with major powers, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad

Sudan’s protest leaders blamed ruling generals yesterday for deadly new violence as three blood-stained bodies were found a day

Two Yemeni rebel drones targeting southern Saudi Arabia were intercepted on Saturday, a Riyadh-led military coalition said, the latest in

Taliban suicide bombers killed at least 19 people in an attack on a government office on Saturday night, officials said, in the latest

UN chief Antonio Guterres said climate-related devastation was striking the planet on a weekly basis and yesterday warned that urgent

The US has deployed F-22 stealth fighters to Qatar for the first time, its military said Friday, adding to a buildup of US forces in the Gulf amid tensions with Iran.