Two members of the Turkish forces were killed after an explosive devise went off in the southeastern province of Sirnak on Monday (December 9), Anadolu Agency reported.

Jordan hopes a new program with the IMF next year would secure lower servicing of $42 billion in public debt that has spiraled in the last decade as a result of a spillover of regional conflict on its

Restaurants in Saudi Arabia will no longer need to maintain entrances segregated by sex, the authorities said on Sunday, further eroding some of the world’s strictest social rules as sweeping reforms

Lebanon’s leading Sunni Muslim politician, Saad al-Hariri, re-emerged as a candidate for prime minister on Sunday when businessman Samir Khatib withdrew his candidacy to lead a government that must ta

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani presented a draft state budget of about $39 billion to parliament on Sunday (December 8), saying it was designed to resist US sanctions by limiting dependence on oil e

Air strikes by Syrian government and Russian forces killed at least 20 people in rebel-held northwestern Syria on Saturday, activists and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

A Chinese-American detained in Iran in 2016 and later charged for spying was freed and an imprisoned Iranian was released by Washington in return, and both were flown to their countries, an Iranian of

Saudi Arabia’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir said there is a possibility of calming the situation in Yemen as a prelude to reaching a settlement in the four-year conflict, Saudi

Turkey’s majority state-owned Halkbank said on Friday (December 6) that it will use all its legal rights to challenge a US Federal Court ruling that it must enter a formal plea to charges that it help

NATO allies did not reach agreement at a summit in London this week and Ankara was left alone in the fight against terrorism, Defence Minister Hulusi Akar was quoted as saying on Friday (December 6).

Iranian security forces have shot at protesters from helicopters and a rooftop and have aimed at peoples’ heads in using “severe violence” to quell anti-government unrest last month, UN human rights c

Russia and Turkey are working on a contract for the delivery of a new batch of Russian S-400 missile systems, the Interfax news agency cited a senior official at a Russian military cooperation agency

Oil producers led by Saudi Arabia and Russia agreed on Thursday (December 5) to cut output by an extra 500,000 barrels a day in the first quarter of 2020 but stopped short of pledging action beyond Ma

Iranian security forces may have killed more than 1,000 people since protests over gasoline price hikes began in mid-November, US Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook said on Thursday (December

Iran said in a letter to the United Nations on Thursday (December 5)that it is determined to go ahead with its disputed ballistic missile program, according to a copy of the letter tweeted by Foreign

The United States has completed its military pullback in northeastern Syria, settling into a more stable posture of about 600 troops in the rest of the country after repositioning and reducing forces,

A US Navy warship seized advanced missile parts believed to be linked to Iran from a boat it had stopped in the Arabian Sea, US officials said on Wednesday (December 4), as Trump’s administration pres

A senior Pentagon official said on Wednesday (December 4) there were indications that Iran could potentially carry out aggressive actions in the future, amid simmering tensions between Tehran and Wash

US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad arrived in Kabul on Wednesday (December 4) in a bid to breath new life into efforts to end the war in Afghanistan, discussing with President Ashraf Ghani steps that

Any candidate for the post of Lebanese prime minister who engages in talks over the make-up of the cabinet before being formally designated premier is violating the constitution, three former prime mi