Iran's Revolutionary Guards said yesterday that the unrest that had rocked Iran over several days was at an end, and

Tens of thousands gather across Iran in a massive show of strength for the country's Islamic rulers after days of deadly unrest, with state television showing vast crowds marching through several cities.

Israeli aircraft attacked Hamas bases in Gaza early yesterday in response to a rocket from the Palestinian enclave

Hundreds of Indonesian couples celebrated getting married in Jakarta on New Year's Eve in a free mass wedding.

The Palestinians said Sunday they were recalling their envoy to the United States for consultations in a move that

Jordan's royal palace warned it would take legal measures against anyone spreading what it said were lies about the

The largest public display of discontent in Iran since the 2009 Green Movement has brought about a series of tweets from US

Israel has formally notified the UN's culture and education body of its withdrawal from the organisation, two months after it announced it would follow the US by walking out over resolutions critical of the Jewish state.

Israel's parliament yesterday ratified a law barring police investigators from going public with their findings, in what opposition lawmakers saw as a bid to soften scrutiny of corruption probes against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Turkish missions in the United States will resume full visa services for US citizens, Ankara's embassy in Washington said yesterday, matching an identical move by American consulates in Turkey.

Sixty-eight Yemeni civilians were killed in two separate air raids by the Saudi-led Arab coalition in one day, the UN humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen Jamie McGoldrick said yesterday.

A senior UN official said he fears children waiting to be evacuated from the besieged rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area near the Syrian capital, Damascus, are being used as bargaining chips.

The United States carried out an air strike on Christmas Eve against the Shabaab Islamist group that left 13 dead, according to a

Saudi-led air strikes killed 14 civilians in a village market near Yemen's battleground third city Taez as a nearly three-year bombing

Saudi King Salman and Turkey's premier yesterday discussed boosting ties and the status of Jerusalem, in a first high-level meeting

More than three dozen Syrian rebel groups, including influential Islamists, have rejected a Russian-led initiative for talks next month

Kuwait arrested five suspects accused of posting a video on social media considered offensive to the Gulf state's crown prince, the

A suspected US drone attack along the Pakistani-Afghan border killed an Islamist militant commander from the Taliban-allied Haqqani

At least 600 people have been arrested since protests began last week against authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan over corruption and the

The number of registered Syrian refugees in Lebanon has dropped to below one million for the first time since 2014, the United