Qatar yesterday moved to avoid an escalation of its feud with Gulf neighbours by telling their citizens they are welcome to stay, while boasting of "business as usual" for vital gas exports.

At least ten migrants have died after their Europe-bound boats sank off Libya's coast and some 100 people are missing, coastguard officials and aid groups said Saturday.

Iran yesterday voiced its opposition to an announcement by Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region that it will organise a vote on

Islamic State (IS) threatened attacks in Saudi Arabia after the militant group claimed responsibility for assaults in Tehran that killed at

A woman suicide bomber killed at least 31 people and wounded 35 in a crowded market in the town of Musayab, 80 km (50 miles) south

More than 900 migrants have been rescued off the coast of Libya during the past 48 hours while trying to reach Italy, the Italian

US President Donald Trump has accused Qatar's leadership of bankrolling extremists and demanded a halt to that funding, drawing

A suicide bomber blew himself up in a market in the town of Musayyib, south of Baghdad, yesterday killing at least 20 people, medical

Tehran yesterday hit out at Washington and Riyadh as tens of thousands attended the funerals for those slain in the first attacks in

The Islamist militants holed up in the southern Philippines town of Marawi have been reduced to a "small resistance" after troops crippled

Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region will hold a historic referendum on statehood in September, its presidency said Wednesday, despite

US-backed fighters yesterday battled the Islamic State group as they tried to push further into the jihadists' Syrian bastion Raqa, two

Israel has advanced plans for more than 3,000 homes in West Bank settlements this week, despite US President Donald Trump's call to

The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in Philippines announces the partial lifting of the deployment suspension of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to Qatar.

US-backed fighters gained ground against the Islamic State group in the streets of Raqa yesterday, a day after their months-long

US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley hailed a "new day" for Israel at the global body yesterday as she held talks with

A senior Emirati official yesterday insisted that Gulf Arab states were not seeking regime change in Doha, as tensions built in a bitter

Iran's Revolutionary Guards say Saudi Arabia and the US are behind twin attacks in Tehran that killed at least 12 people and injured 43.

The Indonesian government is predicting that the recent severing of ties between several Arab countries and Qatar would deal a blow to the archipelago’s tourism industry, with 50,000 expected tourists not showing up because of the crisis, a senior official said on Tuesday.

Non-Arab nations in Asia, such as Malaysia, Indonesia and Pakistan, are getting caught in the middle after Saudi Arabia led a