The wife of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday hailed the harem of the Ottoman sultans as "a school for preparing

Qatar has sought Bangladesh's support for its nominee and Qatar Emir's Cultural Adviser Dr Hamad Bin Abdulaziz Al-Kawari who will contest for the next director general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco).

Gunmen attacked a care home run by missionaries in Yemen's jihadist-plagued southern city of Aden yesterday, killing 16 workers

Allies of Iran's reformist president, Hassan Rouhani, win a landslide victory in Tehran, in the first elections since Iran signed a nuclear deal with world powers.

A Saudi-led air coalition air strike on a market northeast of the rebel-held Yemeni capital Sanaa killed at least 30 rebels and civilians,

The first major truce in Syria's five-year civil war comes into effect, but Syrian TV says shells hit residential areas of the capital, Damascus.

US President Barack Obama has warned Damascus and key ally Moscow that the "world will be watching" their commitment to a

Cessation of hostilities, ceasefire or truce: these terms, all used in attempts to resolve the conflict in Syria, are similar and often used

Iranians voted yesterday in a major test for President Hassan Rouhani, a moderate who hopes to curb conservative dominance and

Iranians are voting in elections for their country's parliament and the Assembly of Experts, a clerical body that appoints the supreme leader.

Family members of a 3-year-old Egyptian boy who was sentenced last week to life in prison say they feel relieved after receiving assurances from officials that neither the boy nor his father will be arrested,.

Syria's regime yesterday agreed to a ceasefire deal announced by the United States and Russia, but there were widespread doubts it could take effect by the weekend as hoped.

President Bashar al-Assad says he wants to be remembered 10 years from now as the person who saved Syria, according to an interview with Spanish newspaper El Pais published on Saturday.

Fighting raged on in Syria yesterday, as a hoped-for ceasefire failed to materialise and Turkey intensified its shelling of Kurdish-led

The first of several convoys carrying badly-needed aid to besieged areas of Syria has arrived at its destination.

Russia says it "categorically rejects" accusations of war crimes over the bombing of hospitals in Syria.

Ehud Olmert, once feted for his peace efforts with the Palestinians, yesterday became Israel's first former premier to serve jail time as he began a 19-month sentence for bribery and obstruction of justice.

At least 23 civilians are killed when missiles hit three hospitals and a school in rebel-held Syrian towns today, residents say, as Russian-backed Syrian troops intensify their push toward the rebel stronghold of Aleppo.

The Israeli army said troops shot dead two Palestinian teenagers who were throwing stones at cars in the occupied West Bank yesterday after coming under fire from one of them.

Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian teenager as she tried to stab a soldier in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron on Saturday, Israeli and Palestinian