Middle East

Britain’s Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has welcomed the release of a British-Australian scholar who had been detained in Iran for more than two years. “I welcome news that Kylie Moore-Gilbert ...

The Australian government has confirmed a Melbourne-based academic who has been detained in Iran for more than two ...

KABUL—Twin explosions in the central Afghan province of Bamiyan killed at least 14 people and wounded 45 more, ...

The UK on Tuesday pledged a £155 million ($206.5 million) support package for 2021, to help reduce child ...

Australia's Defence Minister Linda Reynolds told a Perth business breakfast forum on Friday that the findings of a ...

Greek police arrested a Syrian migrant on Nov. 19 on suspicion that he was a member of the ...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the United States will regard the so-called BDS campaign against Israel—which stands ...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday welcomed Bahrain’s and Israel’s commitments to open embassies, establish online ...

A group of Republican senators led by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) have submitted a letter to President Donald ...

Acting Department of Defense Secretary Christopher Miller on Tuesday confirmed that he will draw down American troops in ...

President Donald Trump should withdraw all American forces from Afghanistan, the president's nominee for U.S. ambassador to the ...

White House national security adviser Robert O’Brien said last week that lifting the blockade on Qatar will be ...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Monday that President Donald Trump shouldn't withdraw U.S. troops from ...

ISTANBUL—Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called for an equal "two-state" solution in Cyprus during a visit on Nov. 15 ...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison will appoint a special investigator to probe alleged war crimes by Australian special forces ...

At least 74 migrants drowned after their Europe-bound ship capsized off the coast of Libya on Thursday.

The ISIS terrorist group claimed responsibility on Thursday for a bomb attack on a Remembrance Day event at ...

RIYADH—Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz urged the world on Thursday to take "a decisive stance" to address ...

A military helicopter that crashed in Egypt during a routine mission killed eight uniformed peacekeepers of the Multinational Force ...

DUBAI — Bahrain's Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman al Khalifa, the world's longest-serving prime minister who repeatedly put down ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Bahrain’s Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, one of the world’s longest-serving prime ministers who ...

The Austrian government has proposed to allow courts to jail those convicted of terrorism-related offences for as long ...

Three people were wounded in a bomb blast on Wednesday during an international event marking the Armistice Day ...

WASHINGTON—The United States on Tuesday imposed Iran-related sanctions on six companies and four people, accusing the network of ...

MOSCOW/YEREVAN/BAKU—Russian peacekeeping troops deployed to the mountain enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday as part of a ceasefire deal ...

Australia's Defence Force (ADF) Chief Angus Campbell confirmed on Friday that he had received a report into alleged ...

LYON, France—A Paris criminal court sentenced a 29-year-old Algerian man Thursday to life in prison for killing a ...