A double car bombing in the east Libyan city of Benghazi left at least 35 people dead and dozens more wounded, including senior

Clashes in the Yemeni rebel heartland of Saada province have killed 40 rebel fighters, Saudi media said yesterday, while the rebels

Saudi Arabia is to begin issuing tourist visas soon, opening up one of the last frontiers of global tourism -- a sector touted as the desert kingdom's "white oil" -- as it steps up diversification efforts to wean itself off its crude oil dependence.

Iraq's parliament has confirmed May 12 as the date for holding a parliamentary election, state TV reported yesterday.

The Philippines yesterday raised the alert level at its Mayon volcano after a loud explosion in the wake of increased activity made a hazardous

A group of separatists in southern Yemen, backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), have declared a state of

US Vice President Mike Pence pledged yesterday that his country would move its Israeli embassy from Tel Aviv to

An Iraqi court yesterday sentenced to death a German woman of Moroccan origin for membership of Islamic State, a

Vice President Mike Pence told Egypt's leader on Saturday the United States would support a two-state solution for

Turkish ground forces pushed into northern Syria's Afrin province yesterday, Ankara said after launching artillery

Yemen's Houthi movement fired a ballistic missile toward the southern Saudi province of Najran yesterday, the group's

Former Egyptian armed forces chief of staff General Sami Anan yesterday said he intended to run in the country's

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan yesterday said a military operation in Syria's Kurdish-controlled Afrin region had

US Vice President Mike Pence headed for Egypt yesterday to begin a Middle East trip overshadowed by anger in the

Fifty-two people were killed yesterday when the Russia-bound bus they were travelling on caught fire in Kazakhstan, the central Asian

Iraq and Syria saw a sharp drop in the number of people killed in terror attacks last year, a report published yesterday by Jane's

The United States on Wednesday signalled an open-ended military presence in Syria as part of a broader strategy to prevent Islamic

A delegation approved by the Taliban's supreme leader visited the Pakistani capital this week for exploratory talks on restarting peace

Saudi Arabia announced yesterday it would transfer $2 billion to Yemen's central bank, following desperate calls for a

More than three-quarters of Yemenis are now in need of humanitarian aid as the war between rebels and the Saudi-backed government