Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged Wednesday not to dismantle even the remotest Jewish settlement in the West Bank, in

Regime and jihadist-led forces were locked in clashes yesterday on the edge of an opposition bastion in northwest Syria after a jihadist-led advance that killed 71 fighters overnight, a monitor said.

Regime and jihadist-led forces were locked in clashes yesterday on the edge of an opposition bastion in northwest Syria after a jihadist-led advance that killed 71 fighters overnight, a monitor said.

Three Iranian vessels tried to block a BP-operated tanker passing through the Strait of Hormuz but backed off when confronted by a Royal Navy warship, the UK government said yesterday.

Diplomatic fallout over journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder appears to be slowing the flow of high-rolling Saudis to Turkey, as calls grow within the oil-rich kingdom to boycott the holiday magnet.

The United Nations human rights expert who conducted an independent probe into the murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Tuesday urged the US to act on her damning findings.

Now is the “right moment” for peace in Afghanistan, President Ashraf Ghani said yesterday as he once more called on the Taliban to

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani yesterday warned Britain of “consequences” over the detention of an Iranian oil tanker off the coast of Gibraltar.

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.