Middle East

Turkey plans to offer Syrian refugees work permits in order to encourage fewer of them to migrate, Volkan Bozkir, Turkey's…

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has accused Saudi Arabia of supporting extremists and "promoting sectarian hatred" and urged Riyadh…

The condition of a Palestinian journalist on a 48-day hunger strike in an Israeli jail is deteriorating, the man's wife…

Aid convoys headed for a besieged Syrian town where thousands are trapped and the United Nations says people are reported…

Yemen's Islamic State-linked militants say they have killed a senior security officer in the southern port city of Aden. The militants…

Arab foreign ministers on Sunday called on Arab states to take a clear position against Iran's alleged meddling in Arab…

Israel's cabinet on Sunday approved the controversial appointment of the country's new interior minister, an ultra-Orthodox party head who had…

A "projectile" struck a clinic supported by international medical group Medecins Sans Frontieres in north Yemen on Sunday, killing four…

A big Syrian rebel group said it was unacceptable to talk about a political solution to the war as people…

An Iranian poet who backed a reformist candidate in 2009's disputed presidential election has been detained amid a crackdown on…