Middle East

At least two people have died with hundreds more requiring urgent treatment at a camp for internally displaced people outside…

East African leaders said late on Monday they would try and push South Sudan’s warring sides to revive collapsed peace…

Many Iraqi Kurds hailed last week’s announcement of a September referendum on independence as historic, but major obstacles will remain…

An audio message purporting to come from the spokesperson of Islamic State called on followers to launch attacks in the…

“Islamic State” (IS) group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is on the brink of losing the two main centers of his…

Qatar has launched two new shipping services to Omani ports after a number of Gulf states severed ties with the…

Police in Iran killed four Islamic State suspects, two of which were foreigners, in the southern province of Hormuzgan and…

Qatar is ready to listen to the concerns of Gulf Arab states that have cut diplomatic and economic ties, Kuwait…

Iran has sent four cargo planes of food to Qatar and plans to provide 100 tonnes of fruit and vegetable…

Iran has arrested almost 50 people in connection with twin attacks on Tehran that killed 17 people last week, officials…