Middle East

 A total of 2,531 Afghan security forces were killed and 4,238 wounded in the first four months of the year,…

Pakistan has extended by two months the house arrest of Hafiz Saeed, accused by the United States of masterminding 2008…

Two influential Afghan politicians urged President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday to allow embattled Vice President Rashid Dostum to return home…

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman announced the launch of an international tourism mega-project in the Kingdom under the name…

Former petroleum minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi is poised to become Pakistan’s new prime minister in a parliamentary vote on Tuesday,…

The lower house of Jordan’s parliament on Tuesday scrapped a provision in the kingdom’s penal code that allowed a rapist…

China’s UN ambassador urged the international community on Monday to support President Xi Jinping’s new four-point proposal to end the…

The trial is opening in Turkey of 486 suspects, including a number of generals and F-16 pilots, accused of leading…

A man convicted of raping and murdering a three-year-old girl was executed in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Monday in…

The Islamic State group targeted the Iraqi Embassy in Kabul on Monday, with a suicide bomber blowing himself up outside…