When making a social phone call, you don't expect to hear the voice of the head of state.

Two Iranian civilians were killed in a cross-border attack by Pakistani insurgents, the Revolutionary Guards said. The insurgent group was

Turkey on Saturday marked one year since the defeat of the failed coup bid with mass nationwide rallies seeking to showcase national unity and a stern warning by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to "chop off the heads" of traitors.

Two foreign women tourists were killed yesterday and four others were wounded when an assailant stabbed them at an Egyptian beach resort in the Sinai Peninsula, officials said.

Iraqi forces faced further pockets of resistance from Islamic State militants in Mosul's Old City yesterday, four days

Qatar's foreign minister says it would be unfair to describe US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's shuttle diplomacy to

Three Arab-Israeli gunmen shot dead two Israeli policemen near one of Jerusalem's most holy places yesterday, and

A team of Afghan girls who had been denied visas to attend a Washington robotics competition spoke of Donald Trump's support

Human Rights Watch has accused Iraqi security forces of forcibly relocating at least 170 families of alleged Islamic State members to a

Egypt and Morocco's airlines have said a ban against carry-on laptops on US-bound flights has been lifted, leaving only

A report by the United Nations says living conditions in the Gaza Strip have worsened in the 10 years since the

The senior US commander in Iraq has warned that the war against so-called Islamic State (IS) is not over, despite a "historic" victory in Mosul.

Six people convicted of drug trafficking and homicide were executed in Saudi Arabia on Monday, the government said, the highest

A Palestinian attempted a car-ramming and knife attack against Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank yesterday

Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani has signed into law a cybercrime bill targeting online crime and militancy by groups such as

Syria's government and opposition met yesterday for a seventh round of UN-sponsored peace talks with little

Mosul was the largest city in the "caliphate" proclaimed by the Islamic State group and its loss is a huge blow to the jihadists' statehood experiment -- but not a fatal one.

Egyptian police said they killed 14 alleged Islamic State group members Saturday in a raid on a training camp, a day after the jihadists

A US-Russian brokered ceasefire for southwest Syria was holding hours after it took effect yesterday, a monitor and two rebel officials said, in the latest international attempt at peace-making in the six-year war.

Russia and the United States have agreed to a ceasefire in southwest Syria starting from midday today, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei