Middle East

Dubai: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denounced the heated rhetoric of Iran's presidential election campaign on Wednesday as...

Beirut: The first picture shows a crowd of thousands packed into a central square in the city of Isfahan this week for a speech by hardline cleric Ebrahim...

Beirut: The Syrian government on Tuesday denied U.S. accusations that a crematorium had been built at one of its prisons that could be used to dispose of...

Ankara: Iranians vote for president on Friday in a contest likely to determine whether Tehran's re-engagement with the world stalls or quickens,...

Geneva: Syria peace talks in Geneva this week should prosper from a tighter format and a recent deal to reduce the violence, U.N. mediator Staffan de...

Kamour (Tunisia): In Tatatouine province in Tunisia's southern Sahara, around 1,000 protesters living in a makeshift campsite are threatening to...

London: Tehran mayor Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf quit Iran's presidential race on Monday and said he would back Ebrahim Raisi in Friday's vote. Qalibaf,...

London: Iranian opposition figure Mehdi Karroubi, under house arrest since 2011, will back President Hassan Rouhani's bid for a second term in...

Baghdad: U.S.-backed Iraqi forces pushed deeper into the last pocket of Mosul controlled by IS militants on Sunday as the battle for the city approaches an...

Amman: More than 1,500 rebels and their family members left the devastated district of Qaboun on the edge of the Syrian capital Damascus after more than two...