US-backed fighters gained ground against the Islamic State group in the streets of Raqa yesterday, a day after their months-long

US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley hailed a "new day" for Israel at the global body yesterday as she held talks with

A senior Emirati official yesterday insisted that Gulf Arab states were not seeking regime change in Doha, as tensions built in a bitter

Iran's Revolutionary Guards say Saudi Arabia and the US are behind twin attacks in Tehran that killed at least 12 people and injured 43.

The Indonesian government is predicting that the recent severing of ties between several Arab countries and Qatar would deal a blow to the archipelago’s tourism industry, with 50,000 expected tourists not showing up because of the crisis, a senior official said on Tuesday.

Non-Arab nations in Asia, such as Malaysia, Indonesia and Pakistan, are getting caught in the middle after Saudi Arabia led a

US-backed fighters broke into the city of Raqa yesterday as they launched a final assault to drive the Islamic State group from its de

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani issued an ultimatum to the Taliban yesterday, warning them to embrace peace or "face consequences"

Seven migrants from sub-Saharan Africa have been found dead in an abandoned refrigerator truck near the Libyan capital, a senior

Up to 100,000 children are in danger as Iraqi forces battle to retake west Mosul from the Islamic State jihadist group, the United Nations

Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain sever their ties with Qatar on Monday, accusing the wealthy Gulf Arab state of supporting terrorism.

Iraqi forces have recaptured one neighbourhood in west Mosul and nearly half of another that are targets of a broad offensive against

A series of blasts in Kabul yesterday killed at least 19 people at a funeral for one of the victims of clashes between police and

Yemeni government forces yesterday fought to capture a rebel-held presidential palace in the southwestern province of Taez after

The next round Syria peace talks will be held in the Kazakh capital of Astana on June 12-13, RIA news agency quoted the Syrian

A Palestinian woman stabbed an Israeli soldier outside a Jewish settlement in the northern West Bank yesterday before being shot and

Fifty years after Israel occupied the Palestinian territories, its policies in the West Bank and Gaza are at the root of

A gunman kills two staff at a private school owned by a prominent Saudi billionaire in Riyadh.

Egypt's president has signed into law a contentious new bill to regulate non-governmental organisations, the official gazette said on

Fourteen civilians were killed late Monday when Islamic State jihadists shelled a government-controlled neighbourhood of Syria's Deir