Saudi Arabia's King Salman, on a landmark visit to Russia, and President Vladimir Putin yesterday signed a slew of arms and energy deals as the key US ally seeks to deepen cooperation with Moscow.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said he believes most foreign troops will be able to leave "within four years", even as he praised US

The Syrian army and allied fighters drove the Islamic State group from their last positions in the central province of

The presidents of Iran and Turkey vowed during talks in Tehran yesterday to work closely together to prevent the

The Palestinian cabinet met in Gaza for the first time since 2014 yesterday, as Israel warned it would reject any reconciliation deal

Islamic State militants set fire to three oil wells near Hawija, west of the oil city of Kirkuk, one of two areas of Iraq still under their

At least 28 civilians were killed in air strikes on northwestern Syria where a planned safe zone has been overshadowed

Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan says Iraqi Kurdish authorities would pay the price for an independence referendum which was widely opposed by foreign powers.

The Islamic State group killed at least 58 Syrian government troops and militia as the jihadists put up fierce resistance to a Russian-

The last international flight left Erbil airport yesterday as the Baghdad government imposed an air ban in retaliation for an

The US ambassador in Tel Aviv has angered Palestinians with a comment downplaying Israel's 50-year occupation of the West Bank, the second such spat in a month.

The Islamic State group yesterday released an audio recording of what it said was its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi calling on members

Saudi Arabia's lifting of a much criticised ban on women drivers will reduce the number of car crashes in a country with one of the

At least a dozen Afghan security forces were killed when a suicide attacker driving an explosives-packed Humvee blew himself up in the

The global threat posed by the Islamic State group has not been diminished by its battlefield defeats in Iraq and Syria, US

Israel said yesterday it had thwarted a plan by two Israeli Arabs with Islamic State sympathies to mount an attack at a contested

Iraq's Kurds announced a massive "yes" vote for independence yesterday following a referendum that has incensed

Baghdad have piled pressure on Iraq’s Kurds , demanding they cancel their overwhelming vote for independence while parliament urged the Iraqi central government to send troops to take control of vital oil fields held by Kurdish forces.

A Palestinian yesterday opened fire at Israeli security personnel at the entrance to a West Bank settlement where he

An Egyptian believed to be the world's heaviest woman died yesterday of heart and kidney failure at an Abu Dhabi