A defiant Iran said it will "proudly bypass" sanctions by the United States that took effect yesterday targeting the Islamic republic's vital oil and financial sectors.

Battles raged near a Yemeni port crucial for humanitarian aid yesterday, but Saudi Arabia and its allies said they were committed to de-escalating hostilities with rebels as calls for a ceasefire mount.

Saudi Arabia sends a two-man "clean-up team" to erase evidence of journalist Jamal Khashoggi's killing a week after he disappears at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, a Turkish official says, calling it a sign top Saudi officials knew of the crime.

The sons of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi issues an appeal for the return of their father's body and said they want to return to Saudi Arabia to bury him.

Conflict-ravaged Yemen has become a "living hell" for children with thousands dying every year from malnutrition and easily preventable

Nineteen suspected jihadists linked to a deadly attack on Coptic Christians in central Egypt have been killed in a shootout with police,

The lights are going back on in the Gaza Strip, in a rare piece of positive news from the blockaded Palestinian enclave.

Bahrain sentenced the head of the country's Shia opposition movement to life in prison yesterday for spying for rival Gulf state Qatar in a

Seventy-year-old Heidar Fekri has been selling industrial equipment from his small store in a Tehran bazaar since before the revolution, but for the first time he is not sure he can survive.

One US soldier was killed and another wounded in an "apparent insider attack" in Kabul yesterday, Nato said. The attacker was killed by

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani will seek re-election in 2019, his office said yesterday, as potential rivals begin jockeying for the country's

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday called for a halt to violence in Yemen to pull the country back from a "precipice" and

Turkey has lifted sanctions on two top United States officials, in a move that came minutes after Washington removed two Turkish

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei yesterday said that President Donald Trump has "disgraced" US prestige and would be

Angry Coptic Christians yesterday buried relatives shot dead on a bus carrying pilgrims south of the Egyptian capital, as security was

At least eight people were killed by Syrian government shelling of the rebel-held Idlib province yesterday, according to a monitoring group -- the highest daily toll since a Russian-

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman described slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi as a "dangerous Islamist" after his disappearance weeks ago, according to US media reports.

News of death is nothing new in Yemen where starvation and disease kill a Yemeni child in every 10 minutes. But few deaths do shake us, like the death of Aylan Kurdi whose lifeless body on the shore of Turkey brought global attention to the migrant crisis triggered by brutal wars in Middle East.

Jihadists yesterday killed four pro-regime fighters in Idlib province, the rebel stronghold where Russia and Turkey have agreed to set up

Kabul's control of Afghanistan slipped in recent months as local security forces suffered record-level casualties while making minimal or no progress against the Taliban, a US government watchdog said yesterday.