Iran backs six-month Syria 'transition' ahead of peace talks
Iran signaled on Friday that it favored a six-month "transition" period in Syria followed by elections to decide the fate of President Bashar al-Assad,...
Mohammed Jameel wins GCC Excellence Award
SHEIKH Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, and Chairman of the current cycle of Gulf Cooperation Council, awarded Mohammed Abdul Latif...
U.N. formally kicks off race for next secretary-general
The United Nations formally kicked off the race for the next secretary-general on Tuesday and the world body’s 193 members were encouraged to consider...
ISIS releases 270 of 400 civilians abducted in east Syria
The ISIS group late Tuesday released 270 of more than 400 civilians it had abducted during its assault on the eastern Syrian city of...
Iraqi Kurd leader: 'Time has come' for statehood referendum
Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani has declared that the "time has come" for the country's Kurds to hold a referendum on statehood, a move...
Ex-Yemen president's party accepts UN peace plan
The party of Yemen's former president, a main player in the messy, months-old civil war, said in an emailed statement that it accepts a...
Syria vote: Fallon says UK is already IS target
The UK is already a target for Islamic State extremists and the threat has "intensified", Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has told MPs.
He told the...
Yemen talks begin in Switzerland as ceasefire takes effect
U.N.-brokered peace talks between Yemen's internationally recognized government and the country's Shiite rebels started on Tuesday in Switzerland as the guns went quiet across...
Yemen war intensifies amid mounting regional tension
Saudi-led air strikes targeting Iranian-allied Houthi forces intensified in Yemen on Tuesday, residents said, an escalation of a nine-month-old war that follows a rise...
Aid airdrops to Syria's besieged are 'too dangerous'
As images and reports of starvation in besieged Syrian communities drew an international outcry and two rare aid convoys this month, an urgent question...
