Amman: Around 25,000 Free Syrian Army rebels are joining the Turkish military operation in northern Syria with the goal of recapturing Arab towns and...
Baghdad: Iraq's Supreme Federal Court on Sunday ruled against calls by minority sect and Kurdish lawmakers to delay a parliamentary election, expected...
Dubai: Iran's President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday called for boosting relations with the Iraqi Kurdish region as part of a united Iraq, Iranian media...
Beirut: Syrian troops and allied forces seized an air base in Idlib province on Saturday, pressing their offensive into the country's largest insurgent...
Baghdad: Iraq's parliament failed on Saturday to approve May 12 as the election date, as suggested by the government, as minority sect and Kurdish...
(John Lloyd co-founded the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, where he is senior research fellow. The opinions...
Beijing: An Iranian oil tanker that sank in the East China Sea has left two oil slicks covering a combined 109 square km (42 square miles), the Chinese...
Muscat: Travel between Oman and Pakistan may soon be a matter of hours by sea, if a fast ferry service between the two nations gets the green light.
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Tokyo: Japan sees little chance of the oil spill from a stricken Iranian tanker that sank on Sunday in the East China Sea reaching its shores, an official...