Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said yesterday Tehran would stick to its 2015 nuclear accord with world powers as

Italy has the highest number of Unesco heritage sites in the world. In Asia, China and India house the most heritage sites.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held talks with Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu yesterday, saying his country will not

Iraqi forces took control of the two largest oil fields in the disputed northern province of Kirkuk yesterday demolishing Kurdish hopes of

Hamas warned yesterday that Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's delay in easing sanctions on Gaza was putting at risk a landmark

US-backed forces took full control of Raqa from the Islamic State group yesterday, defeating the last jihadist holdouts in the de facto

Israeli authorities yesterday approved permits for 31 settler homes in Hebron in the occupied West Bank, the first such approvals for the

The European Union yesterday reaffirmed its support for a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers despite sharp criticism of

Afghan police seized a lorry packed with explosives hidden under boxes of tomatoes in Kabul, officials said yesterday,

A fire at a carpentry workshop in the Saudi capital has left 10 people dead and three others injured, the kingdom's civil

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli police faced off in a rare public dispute yesterday over an intensifying

The presidents of Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan held talks yesterday to defuse an escalating crisis, after a deadline for

A fire at a carpentry workshop in the Saudi capital has left 10 people dead and three others injured, the kingdom's civil defence says.

A princess has been named to head a Saudi multi-sports federation, in a first for women in the conservative Muslim

Freed Canadian hostage Joshua Boyle accused his kidnappers of murdering his baby daughter and raping his wife

Thousands of Iraqi troops were locked in an armed standoff with Kurdish forces in the disputed oil province of Kirkuk yesterday as Washington scrambled to avert fighting between the key allies in the war against the Islamic State group.

Iranians responded with anger and mockery on Saturday to the bellicose criticism of their government by US

The Iraqi army launched an operation to retake Kurdish-held positions around the disputed oil city of Kirkuk on Friday amid a bitter row with the Kurds over a vote for independence last month.

Iraq's prime minister yesterday denied an attack on the Kurds was imminent, in a bid to defuse tensions that had prompted Kurdish

An Iraqi court yesterday ordered the arrest of senior Kurdish officials responsible for organising an independence referendum, in the