Businesses should welcome Turkey's state of emergency because it guards against terrorism and prevents workers from going out on strike, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said a special commission from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) left on Saturday morning for the site of the alleged gas attack in the Syrian town of Douma.
An Afghan official says that at least six local police were killed when a group of Taliban fighters attacked and overran their checkpoint in northern Sari Pul province.
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday appeared to criticize the morality police after a video emerged of a violent encounter with a woman accused of breaching the country's strict dress code.
Turkey's parliament approved Friday a proposal to hold presidential and parliamentary elections on June 24, more than a year ahead of schedule, after...
Insurgents in the last area outside Syrian government control near Damascus agreed on Friday to withdraw, but the army's bombardment continued pending a full...
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Friday at a meeting in Moscow with United Nations Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura that U.S.-led air strikes in...
Syrian state media says Daesh (ISIS) militants have agreed to give up their last pocket in Damascus.
Prime Minister Saad Hariri Friday pleaded with his supporters to vote in high numbers, warning of attempts by rivals to defeat the Future Movement, in the...
Energy and Water Minister Cesar Abi Khalil and the Council for Development and Reconstruction on Saturday launched a treatment plant and sewage system project...
Miguel Diaz-Canel has been the presumptive next president of Cuba since 2013, when Raul Castro named the laconic former provincial official to the important...
Daesh (ISIS) militants agreed to give up their last pocket in Damascus Friday, state media reported, as the government seeks to retake the entire Syrian...
Washington’s strong stance against the actions of Hezbollah has filtered into the Lebanese diaspora that supports the group,.
The newly introduced preferential vote will play a major role in the upcoming parliamentary elections as political sources say some parties will take...
Israeli troops shot dead two Palestinians and wounded 12 in renewed unrest on the Gaza-Israel border Friday as a series of mass protests in the enclave...
Israeli military aircraft Friday dropped leaflets urging Palestinians to stay away from the Gaza-Israel border fence and warning that they endanger their...
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Friday Russia did not know how the situation in Syria would evolve in terms of the country maintaining its...
Britain's U.N. ambassador said Thursday the Russians and Syrians must uphold the promises they made to let chemical weapons inspectors visit the site of a...
The Syrian army bombarded militants in the last area outside government control near Damascus overnight, as President Bashar Assad accelerated his push to...
U.S. military strikes on Syria last week removed any moral obligation Russia had to withhold S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems from its ally Syrian...
From his small home nestled alongside train tracks in the southern Iraqi province of Basra, Sultan Nayef looks out at plumes of smoke billowing across an...
“Even a pet animal is better treated,” sobbed 17-year-old Fatima, one of thousands of young girls exploited and too often abused while working as housemaids...
The Syrian government stepped up its efforts Thursday to retake the opposition’s last besieged enclaves, as rebels withdrew from one and a newspaper reported...
Rebels in southern Syria who were once backed by the United States fear a new offensive by President Bashar Assad’s forces, one that risks igniting a wider...
Angered by last week’s U.S. attack on Syria, Russia warned that there would be consequences. Only one of them was spelled out: The Kremlin said it may supply...
A Palestinian Liberation Organization faction said Thursday it would not attend a meeting of the most important Palestinian political congress in years,...
About 500 lawmakers from Germany, France and Britain Thursday urged the U.S. Congress to support the Iran nuclear deal which President Donald Trump has...
With his stunning call for elections in just over two months, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is seeking to wrong-foot an unprepared opposition and...
Turkey’s ruling AK Party taunted the main opposition party Thursday to name a candidate to challenge Recep Tayyip Erdogan for June elections which are...
Qatari forces participated in joint military exercises that ended in Saudi Arabia this week, in an apparent sign of some compromise among U.S.-allied Arab...
Forces loyal to former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh battled their former Houthi allies Thursday over control of a key outpost, marking the first such...
A Bahrain court sentenced 24 Shiite citizens to prison and stripped them of their nationality after finding them guilty of forming a “terrorist group,” a...
The United States said on Thursday it had concerns about Turkey's ability to hold free and fair elections given the ongoing state of emergency, a day after...
The Syrian government took control of a town northeast of Damascus Thursday after rebels evacuated to north Syria - the latest in a string of handovers by...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that "at least half a dozen" countries were considering moving their embassies to Jerusalem following...