Middle East

Dubai: Citizens of seven mainly Muslim countries banned from the United States by President Donald Trump can resume boarding US-bound flights, several major...

Tokyo: US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis said on Saturday he was not considering hiking the number of US forces in the Middle East to address Iran's...

Washington: The Trump administration on Friday imposed sanctions on Iran, which it said were just "initial steps" and said Washington would no...

Dubai: Iran's President Hassan Rouhani dismissed his US counterpart Donald Trump as a political novice on Wednesday, stepping up criticism of the...

Dubai: Iran's defence minister said on Wednesday it had tested a new missile but this did not breach the country's nuclear accord with world powers...

Tripoli: Libya's UN-backed government has criticised US President Donald Trump's temporary ban on its nationals and those of six other countries...

Amona: Rightist protesters scuffled with Israeli police carrying out a court order to evict settlers from an illegal outpost in the occupied West Bank on...

Mosul: When IS militants swept into Mosul in 2014, they wandered into Manaf Younes' billiards hall and declared it un-Islamic, taking away his billiard...

Occupied Jerusalem: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sidestepped on Tuesday a demand by Mexico for an Israeli apology over a tweet in which he appeared to...

Tehran: Iran said on Tuesday it would never use its ballistic missiles to attack another country and defended its missile tests, saying they are neither...