At least one person has been wounded after a convoy seeking to deliver aid to a besieged Syrian rebel-held town came

At least 25 Yemenis were killed when Saudi-led coalition aircraft struck a market in the northern Saada province, a

Taliban attackers stormed a regional police headquarters in eastern Afghanistan yesterday, killing five officers and

Iraqi forces began storming the Islamic State-held Old City of Mosul yesterday, an assault they hope will be the last

The United Nation's special mediator for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, wants to start a fresh round of talks between Syrian factions on July

Seven American troops were wounded yesterday in an insider attack by an Afghan soldier at a military base, as the US appears set to

Libya's coast guard intercepted 906 migrants off the western city of Sabratha on Friday, a spokesman said.

Palestinian militant factions yesterday dismissed a claim by the Islamic State group that it was behind the fatal stabbing of an Israeli

Pan-Arab satellite network Al Jazeera says the Twitter account for its main Arabic-language channel was back up and running after briefly being suspended.

A Saudi policeman has been shot and wounded in a flashpoint Shia-dominated city, the interior ministry said yesterday. It was the latest

The UN expects to open a new Syria aid corridor, which may help get supplies to desperate people fleeing the Islamic State (IS) group

Egypt's parliament yesterday approved a controversial maritime agreement with Saudi Arabia that transfers two Red Sea

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said yesterday Saudi Arabia was supporting militants inside Iran, days after hardline

A mass food poisoning at a camp for displaced Iraqi civilians outside Mosul has left at least two dead and hundreds requiring urgent

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan denounced the isolation of Qatar by neighbouring states as a violation of Islamic values and

Islamist militants holding parts of a Philippine city are killing civilians who try to flee while using others as orderlies and cooks,

Qatar yesterday announced it had launched direct shipping services to ports in Oman, a move that bypasses a Gulf

Qatar said Monday it had begun shipping cargo through Oman to bypass Gulf countries that have cut off sea routes to the tiny, energy-rich nation, the latest move by Doha to show it can survive a diplomatic dispute with its neighbors.

Iran has arrested almost 50 people in connection with twin attacks on Tehran that killed 17 people last week, officials said, as security

US-backed Syrian fighters yesterday seized a second district of Raqa and launched a renewed assault on a base north of the city, as they pursued an offensive against the Islamic State group.