More than 920,000 people were displaced inside Syria during the first four months of 2018, the highest level in the seven-year conflict, the United Nations said yesterday.

Iran's powerful parliament speaker Ali Larijani yesterday said that the time for Europe to show it can save the nuclear deal was coming

The Taliban announced its first ceasefire in Afghanistan since the 2001 US invasion yesterday, with a three-day halt in hostilities

A one-week ceasefire with the Taliban announced by the Afghan government will allow the fight against the Islamic State group to be stepped up, the top US general in the country said yesterday.

Air strikes thought to have been carried out by Russian jets on a rebel-held residential area in northwestern Syria have killed 44 civilians, a Britain-based monitor said yesterday.

Experts from the countries still in the Iran nuclear deal held a scheduled meeting in Tehran yesterday, with the accord hanging in the balance after the United States withdrew.

At least 16 people were killed and dozens injured after an arms depot exploded in the Sadr City district of the Iraqi capital late

A bomb blast at a voter registration centre in northern Afghanistan killed at least two people and wounded two others, officials said

A Palestinian who threw a rock at Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank yesterday was shot dead by a soldier, the Israeli army said in a

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has defended his kiss on the lips of a married Filipino woman in South Korea, and said he will

Iran will not cooperate more fully with atomic inspectors until a standoff over its nuclear deal is resolved, its UN envoy said, as one

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani yesterday condemned Monday's suicide bomb attack outside a peace tent gathering of Muslim clerics in

The leading Syrian Kurdish militia yesterday said it would withdraw from Manbij, easing fears of a direct clash between Nato allies Washington and Ankara over the strategic northern town.

Iran begins work on infrastructure to build advanced centrifuges at its Natanz facility but will adhere to its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, the director of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation Ali Akbar Salehi says today.

A Palestinian armed with an axe was shot dead trying to breach the Gaza-Israel border yesterday, the Israeli army said. An army

Saudi Arabia yesterday began issuing its first driving licences to women in decades, state media reported. "The general directorate of traffic today

A kiss by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on a Filipino woman's lips while on an official visit in South Korea sparked anger and jokes

At least seven people were killed in a suicide bombing yesterday near a gathering of top clerics in Afghanistan's capital Kabul, roughly

Jordanian Prime Minister Hani Mulki resigned yesterday after he was summoned by King Abdullah II over growing protests against his

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said he plans to visit North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un, Pyongyang's state media reported yesterday,