Russia and Qatar encourage Syrian opposition and government dialogue
Russia and Qatar have agreed on steps to encourage the Syrian opposition to sit down for talks with the Syrian government, the Russian foreign...
Syria ceasefire called upon to tackle virus threat
The government in Damascus has so far only reported one case of COVID-19 but fears are high that the virus could spread rapidly among...
Iraqi forces raid Iran-backed militia base, detain commanders- govt sources
BAGHDAD, June 26 (Reuters) - Iraqi security forces raided a headquarters belonging to a powerful Iran-backed militia in southern Baghdad late on Thursday, seized...
Gunmen kill senior Iraqi oil official in Kirkuk
Gunmen shot dead a senior employee of Iraq’s state-run North Oil Company (NOC) on Monday, the third company official to be killed in the...
Yemen's Houthis in Saudi for talks on ending war
Officials of the Iran-allied Houthi movement are in Saudi Arabia for talks on ending Yemen's war, two officials from a Houthi-controlled administrative body said...
Iran MPs confirm suicide of held Iranian-Canadian professor
Iranian lawmakers confirmed that an Iranian-Canadian university professor killed himself while he was in custody, the semi-official ILNA news agency reported Monday.
The report quoted...
Jubeir: Saudi Arabia cuts ties with Iran
Saudi Arabia said on Sunday it had severed ties with Iran over the storming of the Saudi embassy in Tehran, in a worsening diplomatic...
Plane carrying bodies of 20 Egyptian Christians beheaded in 2015 leaves Libya
A Libyan plane carrying the bodies of 20 Egyptian Christians killed in 2015 by Islamic State in its former Libyan stronghold of Sirte left...
Two Iraqi journalists shot dead
Gunmen shot dead two Iraqi television journalists north of Baghdad on Tuesday who had been on a reporting trip with a top security officer,...
Syrian opposition not optimistic about Geneva peace talks
The Syrian opposition is not optimistic about upcoming peace talks in Geneva because there is no international will for a political transition, opposition member...
