Kuwait has set a minimum wage for its hundreds of thousands of mostly Asian domestic workers, in a first for Gulf states which have come under widespread accusations of abuse.

A suicide bomber killed at least seven people north of Baghdad yesterday, security and medical sources said, in the

French diplomatic missions in Turkey's two main cities have shut until further notice and cancelled planned events to

Syria's army has extended a nationwide truce for another three days, but continued yesterday to press its campaign

Posters begging Pakistan's powerful army chief to launch a coup appeared in major cities including the capital Islamabad

Egypt's foreign minister is to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday on reviving peace efforts with the

Militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) killed five Turkish soldiers and a member of a village guard

The Islamic State group lost 12 percent of the territory it holds in Iraq and Syria in the first half of 2016, according to an analysis by British think-tank IHS.

South Sudan is "back to war", a spokesman for the vice-president has told the BBC, as rival factions clash and hundreds have been reported killed.

The Iraqi premier sacked three Baghdad security chiefs following a devastating bombing in the capital, his office said

Suicide bombers and gunmen have killed at least 30 people at a Shia shrine in Iraq, in an attack claimed by so-called Islamic State.

Tony Blair overstated the threat posed by Saddam Hussein, sent ill-prepared troops into battle and had "wholly inadequate" plans for the aftermath, the UK's Iraq War inquiry has said.

To the radical mind, if additional prayer and alms giving is encouraged in Ramadan - then why not more bloodshed too? View it that way and you understand precisely the line of reasoning that has given rise to such a grisly and gruesome death toll this year.

A search vessel looking for the remains of victims of the EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean in May has recovered all of the mapped bodies from the sea floor, investigators say.

Iran will never coordinate with the United States in Syria and other regional conflicts, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali

Syrian refugees living in Turkey could eventually be granted Turkish citizenship, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has

A weeping Zainab Mustafa brought a photo of her husband to the still-smouldering site of a bloody bombing in Baghdad yesterday, seeking word of him and their two missing children.

At least 79 people have been killed and more than 131 injured in an explosion claimed by the Islamic State group in Baghdad, Iraqi police say.

Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor, writer and Nobel peace laureate who worked to keep alive the memory of Jews slaughtered during World War II, has died aged 87, Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust center say.

Five people were killed and another 22 were wounded early yesterday when a man entered a cafe in northern Serbia and opened