Iraq's Supreme Court yesterday ordered the suspension of a September 25 referendum on the independence of Iraqi Kurdistan, as legal

Iraq moved 500 wives of Islamic State group jihadists to a detention centre in preparation to deport them after they were captured

Syrian government troops came closer yesterday to encircling the Islamic State group in a pocket of Deir Ezzor city after crossing the

Four people were killed and 14 others wounded in an explosion at a mobile phone market in southeastern Afghanistan

Russia and Iraq restored scheduled commercial airline services yesterday for the first time since 2004, in what officials

Twelve Yemeni civilians including women and children have been killed in an air raid by the Saudi-led coalition

A US-backed force battling the Islamic State group in eastern Syria yesterday accused Russian warplanes of bombing

A suicide attacker driving an explosives-filled vehicle slammed into a convoy of foreign troops in southern Afghanistan

Gunmen and suicide bombers killed at least 84 people in southern Iraq in the deadliest attack by the Islamic State

Iraq and Turkey yesterday stepped up the pressure on Iraqi Kurdistan over its planned independence referendum, as the governor of

Finland yesterday said one of its nationals who was kidnapped in an attack on an international guest house in Afghanistan has been

Gunmen and suicide car bombers yesterday killed at least 52 people including Iranians near the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah, in an

A suicide bomber blew himself up near a cricket stadium in the Afghan capital Kabul yesterday, killing three people including a

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that the nuclear deal between world powers and Iran should be amended or canceled.

Saudi authorities have arrested at least 20 people, including prominent clerics Salman al-Awdah and Awad al-Qarni, in an apparent

Militants killed 18 people in an attack yesterday on a security convoy in Egypt's North Sinai, where police and troops are battling a

Qatar's foreign minister yesterday slammed the "illegal" blockade against his country, insisting it was aimed at forcing it into a "state of trusteeship".

Syria's army sent massive reinforcements to territory under its control in Deir Ezzor yesterday ahead of a final push for the Islamic

Iraqi authorities are holding 1,400 foreign wives and children of suspected Islamic State fighters in a camp after government forces expelled the jihadist group from one of its last remaining strongholds in Iraq, security and aid officials said.

Syrian government forces and US-backed militias converged on Islamic State in separate offensives against the