Middle East

Dubai: Iran has given foreign messaging apps a year to move data they hold about Iranian users onto servers inside the country, prompting privacy and...

Dubai: Moderate conservative Ali Larijani was re-elected on Sunday as the temporary speaker of Iran's new parliament which is dominated by first-term...

Misrata (Libya): Forces loyal to Libya's UN-backed unity government say they aim to encircle Sirte, IS's stronghold in Libya, having moved to within...

Amman: Jordan's King Abdullah appointed veteran politician Hani Mulqi as caretaker prime minister on Sunday after dissolving parliament as its four-year...

Beirut/Ankara: Fighting between IS militants and Syrian rebels near the Turkish border has killed dozens of people in the last two days, as IS militants...

The Hague: European authorities are seeking testimony from some of the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing Middle East violence as they try to build...

Cairo/Paris: No new radio signal has been received from an EgyptAir jet since the day it crashed in the Mediterranean last week, sources close to the...

Baghdad/Geneva: The final battle to recapture Falluja, IS's stronghold near Baghdad, will start in "days, not weeks", a militia leader said on...

Geneva: More than 4,200 Iraqis from Mosul fled to Syria in May, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday, adding it is gearing up for up to 50,000...

Budapest: A Syrian refugee has made the most of a fad for trim and dyed beards in Hungary, setting up a barber shop in downtown Budapest popular with...