Middle East

Once driven to near irrelevance by the rise of Islamic State abroad and security crackdowns at home, al-Qaeda in Yemen…

The UN envoy to Libya has urged a rapid, complete handover of power to a unity government that arrived in…

Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq are netting between US$150 million and $200 million a year from illicit trade…

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Thursday his country was not a threat to any other nation and that it…

A leading Arab satellite operator cut transmission of Hezbollah's television channel Al-Manar on Wednesday amid rising tensions between the Lebanese…

Tripoli's self-declared government said on Tuesday it was stepping down, just less than a week after the arrival in the…

One of more than two dozen Qataris kidnapped in the south of Iraq last year has been freed, along with…

Turkey declared a curfew in the southeastern town of Silopi on Tuesday after Kurdish militants launched a rocket attack on…

Islamic State militants attacked Syrian army troops with mustard gas in an offensive against a Syrian military airport in the…

The waspish cartoon in a Saudi-owned newspaper summed up the anger behind Riyadh's decision to cancel billions of dollars in…