Middle East

US and Afghan troops came under “direct fire” in eastern Afghanistan late Saturday, a US military official said, in an…

ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) – Russian officials will arrive in Turkey on Saturday for talks aimed at stopping the Syrian government’s offensive…

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian government forces captured new areas from insurgents in their offensive in the northwest Saturday, as…

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A Palestinian protester was shot dead in the West Bank on Friday as Palestinian and US leaders…

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran should increase its military might to prevent a war, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told a…

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Several fashion retailers that manufacture clothing in coronavirus-hit China are in talks with Turkish firms about shifting…

TORONTO (Reuters) – Grief-stricken relatives of passengers killed aboard an airliner shot down by Iran over Tehran last month are…

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Two French researchers held for months in a Tehran prison on charges of violating Iran’s state…

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s most powerful Shia cleric called for security forces to protect anti-government protesters in a Friday sermon,…

LONDON (AP) — A U.K. woman who as a teenager ran away to join the Islamic State group lost a…