Iran yesterday warned neighbouring Pakistan it would "pay a heavy price" for allegedly harbouring militants who killed 27 of its elite

Kurdish-led forces yesterday said they were holding up the announcement of final victory over the Islamic State group for "a few days"

Islamic State group jihadists using tunnels and suicide bombers were mounting a desperate defence yesterday of their last square kilometre in eastern Syria.

President Hassan Rouhani yesterday vowed revenge against the "mercenary group" behind a suicide bombing which killed 27 people in southeastern Iran and accused the US and Israel of supporting "terrorism".

An international court Wednesday ruled Iran can proceed with a bid to unfreeze assets in the United States, rejecting Washington's claims the case must be halted because of Tehran's alleged support for international terrorism.

Washington will not unilaterally withdraw from Afghanistan, the Pentagon chief said yesterday, as Nato said the Kabul government must be urgently brought into US peace talks with the Taliban aimed at ending the country's 17-year war.

Indonesia will host Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for a state visit next week, Jakarta said yesterday, part of an Asian

Acting Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan arrived in Baghdad yesterday on an unannounced visit for talks on the sensitive issue of a continued troop presence following withdrawal from neighbouring Syria.

Syrian fighters backed up by artillery fire from a US-led coalition pressed their assault yesterday to retake a last morsel of territory from

Food aid in a warehouse on the frontlines of the Yemen war is at risk of rotting, the UN said yesterday. The Red Sea Mills silos, located in

1929: The Lateran Treaty was signed establishing an independent Vatican state in Rome.

Saudi authorities do not know where dissident Jamal Khashoggi's body is despite having in custody the Saudi team that murdered him,

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei yesterday said that Europe "cannot be trusted", a week after the EU launched a trade mechanism to bypass US sanctions on Tehran.

Senior Iranian figures said yesterday that Syria was a top foreign policy priority and American troops should withdraw, as planned by US President Donald Trump. "Whether they want to or not, the Americans must leave Syria," Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was reported as saying.

The Republican-led US Senate backed largely symbolic legislation on Monday that broke with President Donald Trump by opposing

Pope Francis yesterday rejected "hatred and violence" in the name of God, on the first visit by the head of the Catholic church to the Muslim-majority Arabian Peninsula.

The deputy chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guards has warned Europe against forcing the Islamic Republic into boosting the range of its missiles by trying to halt their development.

Thirty-two Palestinians were shot and wounded by Israeli troops in renewed clashes along the Gaza border Friday, the health ministry in

Egyptian archaeologists uncovered a Pharaonic tomb containing 50 mummies dating back to the Ptolemaic era, in Minya, south of Cairo,

France, Germany and Britain have set up a mechanism for non-dollar trade with Iran to avert US sanctions, although diplomats acknowledge it is unlikely to free up the big transactions that Tehran says it needs to keep a nuclear deal afloat.