Prominent rights lawyer Amal Clooney says she will join the legal team defending Philippine journalist Maria Ressa, whose news site has

US and Taliban officials will resume talks in Qatar aimed at ending Afghanistan’s 18-year war, hours after a delegation of Afghan

The sister of the crown prince of Saudi Arabia goes on trial yesterday in a French court over the alleged beating of a workman who was

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s narcotics crackdown has become a “systematic” campaign of killing, Amnesty International alleged

Dozens of powerful Afghans yesterday resumed talks with the Taliban in Doha, where a possible ceasefire is on the table along with key

The United Arab Emirates said yesterday it was redeploying and reducing troops across war-torn Yemen and moving from a “military-

Iran yesterday said it will boost its uranium enrichment in a few hours above a cap set by a landmark 2015 nuclear deal, a move that could eventually culminate in the return of all international sanctions on Tehran.

Iran will announce an increase in uranium enrichment to 5%, a concentration above the limit set by its 2015 nuclear deal, an Iranian official tells Reuters, in a move signalling a deepening challenge to escalating US sanctions pressure.

The UN Security Council called Friday for a ceasefire in Libya as the death toll from a three-month offensive on Tripoli reached 1,000,

Syrian regime bombardment has killed 14 civilians including seven children in northwestern Syria, a war monitor said yesterday, in the

At least 14 people were killed and dozens more wounded when a busy market in northern Afghanistan was hit by mortar fire, officials

The ancient city of Babylon, first referenced in a clay tablet from the 23rd century BC, is designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, after a vote that followed decades of lobbying by Iraq.

The casualty toll of an air strike on a detention camp for migrants near the Libyan capital has climbed to 53 dead and 130 wounded, the

Unesco’s World Heritage Committee voted yesterday to list the sprawling Mesopotamian metropolis of Babylon as a World Heritage Site

Iran summoned the British ambassador in Tehran over the “illegal seizure” of an Iranian oil tanker in Gibraltar yesterday, Iranian state TV

Two hundred corpses, including those of people believed to have been executed by the Islamic State group, were found near the Syrian

International condemnation mounted yesterday after more than 40 migrants were killed in an air strike on a detention centre in Libya that the UN-recognised government blamed on rival strongman Khalifa Haftar.

Iran ignored US and EU warnings yesterday and announced it will exceed the maximum enrichment level it agreed for uranium within days in response to the failure of the other parties to a 2015 nuclear deal to provide it with promised relief from sanctions.

At least 50 people were killed in Nigeria when fuel from a crashed truck that they were siphoning up caught fire, a spokesman for the

A Yemeni rebel attack on a civilian airport in southern Saudi Arabia wounded nine civilians yesterday, a Riyadh-led coalition said, the