Iran airs televised confession of wrestler after Trump tweet
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran, which has a history of broadcasting suspected forced confessions, aired a statement by a wrestler who faces...
Taliban negotiators visit Pakistan to talk Afghan peace push
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Taliban political team arrived in Pakistan on Monday as efforts appear to be ramping up to get negotiations underway between...
Syria seeks to crush insurgent pocket, denies evacuation deal
Syrian troops fought on Sunday to crush the last pockets of resistance by Islamic State militants trapped in an enclave south of Damascus, state...
Greece to extend fence on land border with Turkey to deter migrants
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece will proceed with plans to extend a cement and barbed-wire fence that it set up in 2012 along its northern...
Syria talks ‘on hold’ after envoys test positive for virus
GENEVA (AP) — U.N.-mediated talks involving the Syrian government, opposition and civil society were put “on hold” after three participants turned up positive for...
Yemeni official says clashes in port city killed 5 fighters
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Renewed clashes between forces loyal to Yemen’s internationally recognized government and their rivals, the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, left five fighters...
Cyprus: Turkish warships stopped rig, ‘threatened force’
Turkish warships "threatened to use force" to stop a renewed attempt by a rig to reach an area off Cyprus where Italian company...
Three Iranian police killed in clashes with Sufi protesters
Three police officers were killed in Tehran on Monday, a police spokesman said, as clashes broke out with members of a Muslim religious order...
Fear of epidemic spreads in the camps in Syria
Three million people live in Syria's last major rebel bastion of Idlib, many of them families who fled homes elsewhere in Syria and are...
U.S. sees strong shared interests with EU on Iran concerns
The United States on Sunday said it hopes to use strong shared interests that have emerged with its European Union partners in recent months...
