The U.S. presidential envoy to the coalition fighting insurgent group Daesh (ISIS) said Friday that Kuwait would hold a conference on reconstruction in Iraq early next year.
A Saudi cleric who said women should not be allowed to drive because they have a "quarter" of the brainpower of men has been banned from preaching, the government said Friday.
Iraqi forces achieved the first goal of a new offensive against Daesh (ISIS) on just its second day Friday, penetrating the northern town of Sharqat, AFP correspondents said.
An Iraqi Yazidi group backed by Turkish Kurds and Iranian-backed Iraqi Shiite paramilitary clashed Friday near the border with Syria, a local security official said.
Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani again stressed on Friday that next week's referendum on independence for the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told his Iraqi counterpart Ibrahim al-Jaafari that Moscow supported Iraq's territorial integrity and sovereignty, the...
Organizers have stripped Miss Turkey 2017 of her crown over a social media posting that was deemed insulting to the memory of the 250 people killed while...
Yemeni teenager Nasr Mansour Ghaleb was working at his family's nut shop and hoping to go back to school in his home city of Taez when his life was cut short.
Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil travelled to Jacksonville, Florida Thursday to meet with members of the Lebanese diaspora and encourage them to strengthen ties...
State Minister for Combatting Corruption Nicholas Tueni Friday said that the conditions for Syrian refugees' return to Syria have been met.
President Donald Trump's contentious travel ban expires Sunday with little clarity over whether America's door will reopen for travelers from six...
North Korea said on Friday it might test a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific Ocean after U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to destroy the reclusive country, with...
More than 27,000 images of torture and killings allegedly perpetrated by the Assad regime in Syria have been handed to German prosecutors who are...
Residents of Kurdish-majority areas of northern Syria began voting Friday in the region's first local elections, as part of a push to cement a semi-autonomous...
A top Nigerian official was scheduled to meet the Turkish ambassador Friday after hundreds of rifles allegedly from Turkey made it to the west African country...
Hundreds of civilians left a besieged Daesh (ISIS) enclave in central Syria after the Syrian government and Daesh reached an evacuation deal, the Syrian...
An Estonian court has sentenced a Syrian refugee guilty to 10 years in prison for setting his wife on fire
A Russian submarine fired cruise missiles at extremist targets in Syria's Idlib province on Friday, the Russian Defense Ministry said, saying it had targeted...
Tunisia's navy rescued 78 migrants including two girls after their vessel en route to Europe took on water off the coast of Chebba and was stranded for three...
A senior Syrian opposition activist and her journalist daughter have been found dead at their apartment in Istanbul, the Dogan news agency reported on Friday.
Israeli air strikes hit a weapons depot near Damascus airport overnight, targeting a warehouse belonging to Hezbollah, which is allied with the Syrian...
President Hassan Rouhani vowed on Friday that Iran would boost its missile capabilities despite warnings from Washington that it is ready to ditch a landmark...
Hosting a Los Angeles event with the son of Bahrain's king, two prominent U.S. rabbis let something slip out: the island nation's ruler thinks the longtime...
U.S.-backed fighters were on Thursday clearing the last remaining Daesh (ISIS) extremists from their Syrian bastion of Raqqa, a monitor said.
Russia warned the United States it would target areas in Syria where U.S. special forces and U.S.-backed militia were operating if its own forces came under...
Prime Minister Theresa May tried to unite her fractious Cabinet behind her plan to reboot faltering Brexit negotiations Thursday, as a senior European Union...
Yemen's Houthi rebels marked the third anniversary of their takeover of Sanaa Thursday, gathering tens of thousands of supporters in a show of force as...
A Turkish court on Thursday jailed on terror charges 14 lawyers representing two detained teachers who have been on hunger strike for six months after being...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Thursday the nuclear deal between the Islamic Republic and six world powers is good and cannot be renegotiated.
Egypt's Cabinet has proposed an amendment to the law regulating conditions for the withdrawal of acquired citizenship to include those convicted of crimes...
More than 100 migrants are missing after a shipwreck off the coast of western Libya, the Libyan navy said on Thursday.
The Syrian army and its allies launched air strikes against rebels north of the city of Hama on Thursday after recapturing villages lost to the insurgents in...
The Saudi Arabian government is lifting a ban on calls made through online apps on Thursday but will monitor and censor them, a government spokesman said.