Daesh (ISIS) has threatened to attack Iraqi polling stations and voters during parliamentary elections next month.
Governments will seek more than $6 billion in aid for Syria at a two-day donor conference from Tuesday, which the European Union hopes will also offer Russia, Turkey and Iran a chance to renew peace efforts.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras Monday ruled out any trade off with Turkey for the release of two Greek soldiers held by Ankara, and said its NATO ally appeared to be losing sight of moving closer to Europe.
The European signatories of Iran's nuclear deal with major powers should convince U.S. President Donald Trump not to exit the accord as there is no "plan B" for the agreement, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif Tweeted on Monday.
The Kremlin on Monday declined to comment on media reports that Russia planned to soon supply Syria with S-300 missile systems, but said a Western missile...
Syria's chief opposition negotiator said the United States cannot afford to leave Syria as it has yet to achieve any of its goals in the region, even though...
Air strikes by an Arab-led military coalition killed at least 20 people attending a wedding in a village in northwestern Yemen late on Sunday, residents and...
A Palestinian who was wounded by Israeli fire earlier this month was pronounced dead on Monday, a Gaza official said, bringing the toll from Israeli fire...
Members of the Electoral Supervisory Committee held a news conference Monday to reassure the public of the body’s efficacy, and their determination to ensure...
Contract workers tasked with loading and unloading cargo at the Port of Tripoli stormed the director’s office Monday to protest their heavy workload, the...
The world’s oldest person, a 117-year-old Japanese woman, has died.
A Daesh (ISIS) suicide bomber killed at least 57 people including women and children and wounded 119 outside a voter registration center in the Afghan capital...
Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Joumblatt Monday voiced his critique of the attack on an anti-Hezbollah parliamentary candidate in south Lebanon's...
Every day between now and the parliamentary elections on May 6, The Daily Star will print a tip for voters.
The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain again have accused Qatari military fighter jets of coming dangerously close to an Emirati commercial airliner in Bahraini...
Malaysian police on Monday released computer generated photographs of two men suspected of gunning down a Palestinian man in Kuala Lumpur, adding that alerts...
A Palestinian wounded by Israeli gunfire in the Gaza Strip has died, the Hamas-controlled territory's Health Ministry said on Monday.
The death of a Palestinian teenager during protests along Gaza’s border with Israel has sparked condemnation and international calls for restraint.
More than 100 members of the 700-seat Palestinian National Council want to delay a rare session of the Palestinians’ top decision-making body, saying Sunday...
French President Emmanuel Macron, who is heading to Washington to urge his U.S. counterpart to stay in the Iran nuclear deal, said in an interview broadcast...
The United Arab Emirates said Sunday that Qatari fighter jets narrowly avoided a UAE passenger flight over neighboring Bahrain, the latest in a series of such...
Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry Sunday instructed drone enthusiasts to obtain permissions to fly the devices until regulations were finalized, a day after...
A fledgling Turkish political party founded by a popular former interior minister will be allowed to run in snap June elections, authorities ruled Sunday,...
Fourteen officials from Saddam Hussein’s regime are still in Iraq’s prisons, 15 years after the late dictator was deposed by a U.S.-led invasion in 2003,...
Israel’s defense minister Sunday dismissed claims the country’s Mossad spy agency was behind the assassination of a Palestinian scientist in Malaysia,...
Syrian government forces used warplanes, helicopters and artillery Sunday to pound districts of the capital held by Daesh (ISIS), in a bid to enforce an...
Iran and Israel traded blame Sunday for an unprecedented, weekslong surge in hostilities between their forces over Syria but played down prospects of a...
Israel's Justice minister said Sunday she would help Ethiopia's Jews immigrate to Israel as soon as possible. Ayelet Shaked made the comments while visiting...
The Greek government said Sunday it is rejecting a proposal by Turkey's president to exchange two Greek soldiers detained since early March for eight Turkish...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended the Iran nuclear deal in an interview with an Israeli TV channel, saying an imperfect deal is better than no deal and...
Iran and Israel traded blame Sunday for an unprecedented, weeks-long surge in hostilities between their forces over Syria but played down prospects of a...
Eleven migrants died at sea and another 263 were rescued Sunday in two separate operations off the coast of western Libya, the country's navy said.
A Greek anarchist group Sunday attacked the French consulate in Athens, Greek police said, in protest at France's involvement in airstrikes against Syria.
Saudi air defences Sunday intercepted a ballistic missile fired by Yemeni rebels at the kingdom's southern border city of Najran, which set a farm ablaze,...
French President Emmanuel Macron said he has no "plan B" for the Iran nuclear deal and that the United States should stay in the agreement as long as there is...