Cholera is believed to have affected more than 500,000 people and killed nearly 2,000 since late April, WHO said yesterday. A full

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov yesterday backed the efforts of Libya's military commander Khalifa Haftar and his rival UN-

More than 600,000 displaced Syrians have returned to their homes since the beginning of the year, with most of them heading to

Iran's parliament yesterday gave initial approval to a bill to boost spending on Tehran's missile programme and the

A Saudi-led coalition, including Egypt, the UAE and Bahrain, and several more countries, cut all ties to Qatar in June

The UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria has gathered enough evidence for President Bashar al-Assad to be convicted

Flash floods triggered by heavy rain in northeastern Iran have left at least 11 people dead and two missing, the Red

Iraq's Kurds are sticking to a plan to hold an independence referendum on Sept 25, despite a US request to postpone

The death toll from Egypt's latest train disaster rose to 41 yesterday as cranes worked to clear the stricken railway line

At least 23 rebel fighters were killed Friday and dozens more wounded in a suicide blast in southern Syria near the

Israel warned Gaza's Hamas rulers yesterday not to try to foil its construction of a border wall designed to stop tunnels

A 10-year-old Afghan refugee dubbed "Little Picasso" exhibited his paintings and photographs in Belgrade on

Four boys and two girls have been arrested in Iran for teaching "Western" dance moves including Zumba, a Colombian

Qatar, isolated by its neighbours in a diplomatic crisis, yesterday introduced a visa-free entry programme for 80

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani appointed two female vice presidents yesterday but continued to take flak from

Qatar announces a programme to allow visa-free entry for citizens of 80 countries to encourage air transport and tourism amid a two-month boycott imposed on the Gulf state by its neighbors.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani yesterday put forward a new cabinet line-up that was immediately criticised by reformists for its lack of

At least four soldiers were killed and eight injured when one of their colleagues opened fire on a military air base in southern Tehran

Police in Dubai reopen the streets around one of the world’s tallest residential skyscrapers after firefighters put out a blaze that erupted in the high-rise, forcing residents to evacuate in the middle of the night and sending chunks of debris plummeting below.

Iran yesterday said that new US sanctions were a violation of its nuclear deal with world powers, piling pressure on President Hassan