Middle East

A three-month prison sentence has been dropped for a Scottish man over touching another man’s buttocks in a dispute at…

Russia respects the desire of Iraqi Kurdistan to seek to assert its identity but this must be done in dialogue…

The bodies of at least 67 Syrian civilians, many summarily killed by the Islamic State group, have been discovered in…

A Bahraini female political activist and two others have been freed from detention in the island kingdom amid its crackdown…

Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a military force with political clout and an industrial empire, stands to benefit from…

A five-month battle against Islamic State supporters in the southern Philippines that claimed more than 1,100 lives has ended following…

German federal prosecutors have opened up more than 900 terrorism-related cases so far this year, including 800 related to radical…

Indonesia intends to send a diplomatic note to the US secretary of state and summon Washington’s deputy ambassador in Jakarta…

Israeli police have arrested 15 Jewish extremists accused of threatening Arab men dating Jewish women, officials said Sunday. Among those…

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Sunday promoted a Trump administration goal of uniting Saudi Arabia and Iraq in…