Middle East

Saudi Arabia brushed aside rulings from top clerics to host a big money chess tournament, but the gambit to improve…

Turkish police have detained 54 staff from a university shut down after an attempted coup last year that was blamed…

Syrian rebels pinned down in a strategic area where the Israeli and Lebanese borders meet with Syria were handed an…

The UAE, which angered Tunisia by banning Tunisian women from its passenger flights, has intelligence that female jihadists returning from…

Authorities in eastern Libya have announced a conference in March to drum up support to rebuild the country’s second-largest city…

A Turkish judge evicted an investigative journalist for the Cumhuriyet newspaper from the courtroom during a tense exchange on Monday,…

Russia has started establishing a permanent military presence at naval and air bases in Syria, the defense minister said on…

Iran’s Supreme Court has upheld a death sentence against a Sweden-based Iranian academic convicted of spying for Israel, the Tehran…

Syrian rebel groups on Monday rejected Russia’s planned Sochi conference on Syria, saying Moscow was seeking to bypass a UN-based…

Inside the newly renovated Church of Saint George in the Northern Iraqi town of Teleskof, Hayat Chamoun Daoud led children…