A United States air strike in Afghanistan killed a senior Al Qaeda commander in charge of suicide bombing and two other militants, the Pentagon says.

A car bomb kills 120 people and injures at least 130 at a busy market in an Iraqi town, officials have said.

A deal on limiting Iran's nuclear programme in return for the lifting of sanctions has been reached at talks in Vienna, diplomats say.

A large explosion struck outside the Italian Consulate in Egypt's capital Cairo, severely damaging the building and killing one civilian, and injuring four others, officials say.

Alauddin Mollick, son of landless poor farmer Shahadat Mollick, had to drop out from school when he was in ninth grade due to abject poverty.

Fourteen more cases of Mers have been confirmed in South Korea and a fifth person has died.

Once a soccer minnow, the Middle East has emerged as one of the sport's most powerful blocs during Sepp Blatter's 17-year reign at FIFA and is likely to have a big say in who will replace him.

At least 30 prisoners and 10 guards have died in a prison break in Iraq.

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak sentenced to three years in jail on corruption charges after retrial.

Several hundred Yazidi captives are killed in Iraq by Islamic State (IS) militants west of Mosul, Yazidi and Iraqi officials say. A statement from the Yazidi Progress Party said 300 captives were killed on Friday in Tal Afar near the city.

THE airstrikes undertaken by a Saudi-led coalition against targets in Yemen may usher a new phase in one of the longest, most destructive, and most confused conflicts to affect the Middle East and much of the Muslim world: the Saudi-Iranian confrontation.

POLITICAL develop-ments in the Middle East are changing and dynamics of realpolitik is at play on the heels of Tehran's recent framework

THE war against the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) is about to observe its first anniversary.

The heads of Arab League countries meeting in Egypt have agree to create a joint Arab military force.

Saudi Arabia has launched a military operation including air strikes in Yemen against Houthi Shia rebels, say the Saudi Ambassador.

Melbourne schoolboy who travelled to Middle East to fight with Islamic State (IS) dies in suicide attack in Iraq