Egypt said it would end visas on arrival for Qatari citizens as a dispute between four Arab states and the Gulf emirate

A top Kurdish counter-terrorism official said yesterday he was 99 percent sure that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was alive

The people of war-torn Afghanistan continue to bear the brunt of the grinding conflict with civilian deaths at their worst since records

The European Union imposed sanctions on 16 Syrian scientists and military officials yesterday for their suspected involvement in a

Turkey on Saturday marked one year since the defeat of the failed coup bid with mass nationwide rallies seeking to showcase national unity and a stern warning by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to "chop off the heads" of traitors.

Israel yesterday reopened an ultra-sensitive holy site closed after an attack that killed two policemen, but Muslim worshippers were refusing to enter due to new security measures including metal detectors and cameras.

When making a social phone call, you don't expect to hear the voice of the head of state.

Two Iranian civilians were killed in a cross-border attack by Pakistani insurgents, the Revolutionary Guards said. The insurgent group was

Two foreign women tourists were killed yesterday and four others were wounded when an assailant stabbed them at an Egyptian beach resort in the Sinai Peninsula, officials said.

Iraqi forces faced further pockets of resistance from Islamic State militants in Mosul's Old City yesterday, four days

Qatar's foreign minister says it would be unfair to describe US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's shuttle diplomacy to

Three Arab-Israeli gunmen shot dead two Israeli policemen near one of Jerusalem's most holy places yesterday, and

A team of Afghan girls who had been denied visas to attend a Washington robotics competition spoke of Donald Trump's support

Human Rights Watch has accused Iraqi security forces of forcibly relocating at least 170 families of alleged Islamic State members to a

Egypt and Morocco's airlines have said a ban against carry-on laptops on US-bound flights has been lifted, leaving only

A report by the United Nations says living conditions in the Gaza Strip have worsened in the 10 years since the

The senior US commander in Iraq has warned that the war against so-called Islamic State (IS) is not over, despite a "historic" victory in Mosul.

Six people convicted of drug trafficking and homicide were executed in Saudi Arabia on Monday, the government said, the highest

A Palestinian attempted a car-ramming and knife attack against Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank yesterday

Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani has signed into law a cybercrime bill targeting online crime and militancy by groups such as