US economic pressure on Iran is intended to turn Iranians against their government, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was

Saudi authorities have launched a probe after a female TV presenter wore "indecent" clothes while reporting on the end of a decades-long woman driving ban, triggering outrage on social media.

A barrage of Russian strikes on rebel-held towns in southern Syria killed 22 civilians yesterday, the bloodiest day yet of the government's offensive in the strategic region.

A barrage of Russian strikes on rebel-held towns in southern Syria kills 22 civilians, the bloodiest day yet of the government's offensive in the strategic region.

Syrian troops have made strategic gains from rebels in the south, a monitor said yesterday, as they ramped up an offensive causing yet another wave of mass displacement.

The Saudi-led coalition battling rebels in Yemen yesterday said its forces killed eight members of Lebanon's Shia militant group

Libya's coastguard has rescued nearly 1,000 migrants who were on boats in distress in the Mediterranean on their way to Europe, the

Government helicopters dropped barrel bombs on Deraa city for the first time in nearly a year yesterday, a rebel and a war monitor

A decades-old ban on women driving cars in Saudi Arabia ended yesterday, quashing a conservative tradition seen by rights activists

Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump's senior adviser, said Washington would announce its Middle East peace plan soon, and

Saudi Arabian women celebrates being able to drive for the first time in decades today, as the kingdom overturnes the world's only ban on female motorists, a historic reform expected to usher in a new era of social mobility.

Iraq yesterday said it had killed 45 jihadists from the Islamic State group, including senior members, in an air strike in eastern Syria,

Syrian government helicopters dropped barrel bombs on opposition areas of the country's southwest yesterday for the first time in a year, a war

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife Sara was yesterday charged with fraud and breach of trust after a lengthy police probe into allegations she falsely claimed meals worth $100,000, the justice ministry said.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said his ruling AK Party could seek to form a coalition if it fails to secure a parliamentary majority in Sunday's elections, a prospect which has unsettled investors who fear it could lead to political deadlock.

Thousands of civilians have fled regime bombardment on rebel-held areas in Syria's southern province of Daraa, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said yesterday.

In a royal decree issued on June 21, 2017, King Salman ousts his nephew as crown prince and installs his 31-year-old son, Mohammed, as his heir. Widely known as MBS, Prince Mohammed retains his role as defence minister. The move caps a meteoric rise for the young prince. It comes at the start of a major fallout with Qatar.

Yemeni forces seized Hodeida airport yesterday in a major step towards retaking the rebel-held port city after a week of fighting that has

As many as 192 passengers could be missing after a ferry sank into the depths of a volcanic lake in Indonesia, the search-and-rescue

Several dozen rockets and mortar bombs launched at Israel by Palestinians in Gaza, and Israeli air strikes on the enclave's dominant