A US soldier was killed in Afghanistan on Saturday, Nato said, taking the number of American service personnel to die in the war-torn

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani yesterday called Israel a "cancerous tumour" established by Western countries to advance their interests in the Middle East.

Bahrain holds a parliamentary election yesterday amid boycott calls from dissolved opposition groups which have been banned from taking part.

The United Arab Emirates is reviewing a request for clemency from the family of a British researcher sentenced to life in prison on espionage charges this week, the country's ambassador to London said yesterday.

Skin and bones, 10-year-old Ghazi Saleh lies on a hospital bed in Yemen's government-held third city Taez barely breathing. He weighs just eight kilogrammes (less than 18 pounds).

Saudi Arabia has warned criticism of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is a "red line", after Donald Trump heaped praise on the kingdom in defiance of warnings he was giving Riyadh a pass on a journalist's grisly murder.

Amid international uproar over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, some members of Saudi Arabia's ruling family are agitating to prevent Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman from becoming king, three sources close to the royal court said.

Dozens of Indonesian mosques that cater to government workers are spreading radicalism and calling for violence against non-Muslims,

A three-day meeting between the Taliban and the US special envoy for Afghanistan to pave the way for peace talks ended with no agreement, the

A key Israeli minister said yesterday he will not quit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition for now despite sharp

Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz has addressed the kingdom's Shura Council but failed to mention the case of murdered

Germany issues entry bans for 18 Saudi citizens suspected of involvement in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Riyadh’s Istanbul consulate, effectively banning them from the European Union’s passport-free Schengen zone.

Egyptian authorities have rounded up at least 40 rights workers, activists and lawyers since late October and detained them in

The US special envoy to Afghanistan hopes to cement a peace deal with Taliban insurgents by April 2019, local media reported yesterday.

At least forty people, mostly women and children are killed in the latest wave of US-led coalition airstrikes against the last remaining Islamic State-held pocket in Syria near the border with Iraq, the militants and some local residents said.

Air strikes by the US-led coalition yesterday killed 43 people, mostly civilians, in a holdout of the Islamic State group in eastern Syria, a Britain-based monitor said.

Iraq's new President Barham Saleh made his first official visit to neighbouring Iran yesterday, calling for "a new order in the region". Saleh

Saudi Arabia has sought to draw a line under one of its biggest crises triggered by critic Jamal Khashoggi's murder, but an ever greater threat of international scrutiny and pressure hang over the kingdom.

A man wielding a knife entered an Israeli border police base in annexed east Jerusalem provoking a scuffle in which four officers were

Major assaults by Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan's western province of Farah bordering Iran, mounted with the aim of weakening the government's grip on the region, have killed at least 30 Afghan security forces, officials said yesterday.