The Taliban will not attend planned peace talks with the United States in Saudi Arabia this month, and want to shift the venue to Qatar,

At least 30 people were killed when a gold mine collapsed in northeastern Afghanistan yesterday, officials said, in the latest tragedy to

The newly elected chief of Venezuela's opposition-run Congress on Saturday said President Nicolas Maduro will be "usurping the

A car bomb injured six people in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar yesterday, police said, with the blast ripping through multiple

Iran is to deploy its newest warship to the Atlantic Ocean on a five-month mission -- the navy's longest in a decade, the conservative

Saudi Arabia's attorney general sought the death penalty for five of 11 defendants charged with the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi as their high-profile trial opened in Riyadh yesterday.

Clashes between jihadists and rebels raged yesterday inside Syria's last major opposition bastion for a third day, a monitor said, as the death toll mounted to more than 70 fighters.

A Turkish television station has broadcast CCTV footage showing men carrying cases and bags which it says contained slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi's body parts.

Yemeni rebels have begun to withdraw from the port of Hodeida, the country's key aid lifeline, under an agreement reached in Sweden earlier this month, a UN official said yesterday.

Saudi Arabia's new foreign minister struck a note of defiance Friday in the face of international outrage over critic Jamal Khashoggi's murder, denying the kingdom was in crisis and that his predecessor had been demoted.

Thousands of civilians, mostly relatives of jihadist fighters, are fleeing the Islamic State group's last stronghold in eastern Syria, a war monitor said yesterday.

Thousands of civilians, mostly relatives of jihadist fighters, are fleeing the Islamic State group's last stronghold in eastern Syria, a war monitor said yesterday.

King Salman of Saudi Arabia ordered a major government reshuffle yesterday, replacing the ministers of foreign affairs and information, a royal decree said.

Syrian air defences shot down Israeli missiles near the capital Damascus on Tuesday, local state media reported, while Israel said it was protecting itself from anti-aircraft fire.

Iran has met with the Afghan Taliban, a top Iranian security official said yesterday according to the Tasnim news agency, just days after the militants attended reconciliation talks in the UAE.

Israeli authorities have advanced plans for nearly 2,200 settlement homes in the occupied West Bank, the Peace Now NGO said yesterday, the first such approvals since snap polls were called earlier this week.

Israeli war planes attack with missiles unspecified targets near Damascus, the Syrian capital, and injured three Syrian soldiers, Syrian state media reports quoting a military source.

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani yesterday presented a $47 billion state budget with increased spending on lower income groups, saying US sanctions would affect people's lives and economic growth but not bring the government to its knees.

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani yesterday presented a $47 billion state budget with increased spending on lower income groups, saying US sanctions would affect people's lives and economic growth but not bring the government to its knees.

Suicide attackers stormed the Libyan foreign ministry in the capital Tripoli yesterday, killing at least three people including a senior civil servant, the authorities said.