Eight Iranians were among 15 foreign pro-regime fighters killed in a suspected Israeli strike in Syria on a weapons depot of Iran's elite

Saudi women will be allowed to start driving in the kingdom from June 24, the General Department of Traffic Director General

Afghan police shot dead a suicide bomber yesterday as he was apparently preparing to attack an outdoor blood donor facility in a busy

More than 30 Syrian government troops have been killed in a southern district of the capital in a fierce counter-offensive by Islamic State

Hezbollah and its political allies won just over half the seats in Lebanon's parliamentary elections, unofficial results showed, boosting

Saudi Arabia has detained thousands of people for years without trial, Human Rights Watch said yesterday, slamming the country's

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani yesterday said that if the United States quits the nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers then

Polling booths open in Lebanon today for the country's first parliamentary election in nine years, a period marked by stretches of political paralysis and war in neighbouring Syria.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has criticised the ban imposed on popular messaging app Telegram by the conservative-run judiciary, saying the move was "the opposite of democracy".

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas yesterday apologised for alleged anti-Semitic comments that drew global condemnation.

A Saudi inmate from Guantanamo Bay has arrived back in the kingdom after the Pentagon said it was transferring him to his homeland, the first such move under President Donald Trump.

Syrian rebels began pulling out of an enclave they have surrendered in south Damascus yesterday, but a few fighters in another besieged area near Homs shelled government areas after their groups agreed to quit.

Morocco on Tuesday cut diplomatic ties with Iran, accusing the Islamic republic of using its ally Hezbollah to deliver weapons to the

US and Israeli officials have condemned Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas over alleged anti-Semitic comments, after he suggested

Missile strikes on central Syria killed 26 pro-regime fighters, most of them Iranians, a monitor said yesterday, in a raid that bore the hallmarks of Tehran's arch-foe Israel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a televised address yesterday he had new "proof" of an Iranian nuclear weapons plan that could be activated at any time, as the US considers whether to pull out of the atomic accord with Tehran.

Qatar could agree a deal within a fortnight to abolish its controversial exit visa system, which requires workers to obtain their employers'

Gaza's Islamist leaders Hamas on Saturday publicly accused the rival Palestinian Authority (PA) of planning an assassination attempt against the head

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte yesterday said the temporary ban on Filipinos going to work in Kuwait is now permanent,

Rare clashes broke out yesterday between Syrian regime forces and a US-backed alliance in the east of the country, killing six alliance