More than 700 people were injured in a 6.4-magnitude earthquake that shook western Iran, state television reported in an updated toll

The United Arab Emirates yesterday pardoned British academic Matthew Hedges just days after sentencing him to life in prison for spying in a case that stunned Britain and his family.

Turkish police were searching two villas in a northwestern province for the remains of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, state media reported.

Around 100 Syrians have been hospitalised with breathing difficulties in Aleppo, state media and a monitor said yesterday, after allegations rebels fired "toxic gas" on the regime-held city the previous day.

At least 14 Palestinians were wounded by Israeli gunfire Friday during protests along the Gaza border, the enclave's health ministry said.

At least nine security service members were killed in a suspected Islamic State group attack in the southeastern Libyan town of Tazerbo

A US soldier was killed in Afghanistan on Saturday, Nato said, taking the number of American service personnel to die in the war-torn

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani yesterday called Israel a "cancerous tumour" established by Western countries to advance their interests in the Middle East.

Bahrain holds a parliamentary election yesterday amid boycott calls from dissolved opposition groups which have been banned from taking part.

The United Arab Emirates is reviewing a request for clemency from the family of a British researcher sentenced to life in prison on espionage charges this week, the country's ambassador to London said yesterday.

Skin and bones, 10-year-old Ghazi Saleh lies on a hospital bed in Yemen's government-held third city Taez barely breathing. He weighs just eight kilogrammes (less than 18 pounds).

Saudi Arabia has warned criticism of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is a "red line", after Donald Trump heaped praise on the kingdom in defiance of warnings he was giving Riyadh a pass on a journalist's grisly murder.

Amid international uproar over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, some members of Saudi Arabia's ruling family are agitating to prevent Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman from becoming king, three sources close to the royal court said.

Dozens of Indonesian mosques that cater to government workers are spreading radicalism and calling for violence against non-Muslims,

A three-day meeting between the Taliban and the US special envoy for Afghanistan to pave the way for peace talks ended with no agreement, the

A key Israeli minister said yesterday he will not quit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition for now despite sharp

Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz has addressed the kingdom's Shura Council but failed to mention the case of murdered

Germany issues entry bans for 18 Saudi citizens suspected of involvement in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Riyadh’s Istanbul consulate, effectively banning them from the European Union’s passport-free Schengen zone.

Egyptian authorities have rounded up at least 40 rights workers, activists and lawyers since late October and detained them in

The US special envoy to Afghanistan hopes to cement a peace deal with Taliban insurgents by April 2019, local media reported yesterday.