Middle East

Russian forces in Syria have fired at least twice on Israeli military aircraft, prompting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to seek…

Iran has denounced as "theft" a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that almost $2 billion in frozen Iranian assets must be…

A knife-wielding human trafficker prevented survivors of a shipwreck from pulling others to safety, leaving them to drown in the…

The three Tajik construction workers were quietly mending a road near the Panj River last month when they stumbled on…

Turkey has met fewer than half the conditions for its citizens to be granted early visa-free travel to the European…

Campaigning for Iran's parliamentary runoffs next week began on Thursday, state radio reported, when allies of President Hassan Rouhani and…

Up to 500 migrants may have drowned in the Mediterranean last week when human traffickers crammed people onto an already…

With a thick black marker pen in hand, Palestinian graffiti artist Belal Khaled carefully draws an intricate Arabic calligraphic design…

Islamic State militants seized Syrian government-controlled territory in the eastern Syrian city of Deir al-Zor on Tuesday, a war monitor…

Syrian peace talks appeared all but doomed on Tuesday after air strikes killed about 40 people in a crowded vegetable…