Pompeo discusses Libyan conflict, Iran with UAE counterpart
DUBAI (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussed the Libyan conflict and countering Iranian regional influence with his Emirati counterpart during a...
Turkey strikes Kurdish rebel bases, rules out new talks
Turkish warplanes have bombed Kurdish rebel bases in Turkey and northern Iraq, the army said Tuesday, as the government ruled out an immediate resumption...
Iran condemns suicide bomb attacks in Saudi Arabia
Iran on Tuesday condemned three suicide bombings that rocked its regional rival Saudi Arabia, one of them targeting Islam's second holiest place, the Prophet's...
Turkey: Russia to hold live-fire exercises in Mediterranean
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey announced that Russia plans to conduct live-fire naval exercises this month in the eastern Mediterranean, where there are escalating...
HRW: Smuggled Syria photos 'damning evidence' of crimes against humanity
Photographs of thousands of people who reportedly died in government detention centres in Syria present "damning evidence" of crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch...
Air strikes on Syrian camp kill 28
Air strikes on a camp housing Syrians uprooted by war killed 28 people near the Turkish border on Thursday, a monitoring group said, and...
ISIS claims central Baghdad bombing
The hardline militant group Islamic State (ISIS) claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing on Tuesday morning in central Baghdad that police said killed three...
Syria's new US-backed force faces teething problems
The call came around noon, about four hours after U.S.-backed Syrian fighters announced they had taken over an air base outside a town held...
Israel legalises hundreds of West Bank settler homes
Israel has retroactively legalised some 800 homes in four settlements in the occupied West Bank, the interior ministry said.
They included 377 homes in the...
Iran blames Yemen war on British, US arms exports
Iran on Monday rejected Western claims that it was arming Huthi rebels in Yemen, saying the conflict was instead the result of British and...
