Middle East

Tehran : Voting began on Friday in Iran for the 12th term of the Islamic Consultative Assembly (parliament) and the 6th term of the Assembly of...

Martin Griffiths, the UN's under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordination, voiced another urgent plea to stop the ...

Moscow: Russia on Thursday launched into space Pars 1, an Iranian imaging satellite, which has the capability of sending high-resolution images of surface...

Washington, DC: Amid the escalating tensions in the Red Sea, the US Central Command has said that US aircraft and a coalition warship shot down five Houthi...

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday said that India is concerned over the conflict in Gaza and stressed that humanitarian crisis...

A ferry carrying 15 people sank in the Nile river near Cairo on Sunday, killing at least 10 of them, authorities said Monday.

Algiers: Algeria inaugurated on Sunday what it described as "Africa's biggest mosque" and the third-biggest mosque in the world, following over a decade of...

Istanbul: The Sultanate of Oman on Sunday concluded its participation in the extraordinary meeting of information ministers of the Organisation of Islamic...

Washington, DC: The US forces and the United Kingdom Armed Forces, with the support of several other countries, conducted strikes against 18 Houthi targets...

Berlin: Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, on Friday overwhelmingly approved a new mandate committing the Bundeswehr to deploy as many as 700 soldiers, as...