Beirut swaps Baghdadi’s former wife with soldiers
A former wife of Daesh's leader was released Tuesday after more than year in custody in Lebanon as part of a prisoner swap involving...
Saudi-Iranian tensions can't halt slide in oil prices
Even the escalating tension between Iran and Saudi Arabia, two big oil-producing countries, can't halt the slide in energy prices.
Oil futures spiked briefly on...
Twitter says sporadic outages in many parts of world resolved
Twitter said on Tuesday it has resolved outages widely reported across Europe, the Middle East, Africa and North America that were caused by a...
Registration of voters still below expectations
Registration of voters for the Dec.12 municipal elections is still slow with some of the 1,236 polling centers receiving only a few men and...
Obama and Saudi King to raise support for Syrian opposition
U.S. President Barack Obama and Saudi Arabia's King Salman committed to increase support for "the moderate Syrian opposition" in a call on Tuesday and...
Iran has begun dismantling nuclear facilities: UN watchdog
Iran has begun dismantling parts of its nuclear programme, as agreed under July's landmark deal with major powers, a UN atomic watchdog report showed...
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...
Riyadh condemns racism against Muslim refugees
Saudi Arabia has expressed deep concern about the “increasing hostile, racist and inhuman rhetoric against refugees in general and Muslim refugees in particular.”
All countries,...
Iraqi troops storm into center of ISIS-held Ramadi
Iraq's armed forces stormed the center of Ramadi on Tuesday, a spokesman for the counter-terrorism units said, in a drive to dislodge Islamic State...
Yemen accuses Iran of pursuing its destruction
Yemen's President Abdrabbu Mansour Hadi on Tuesday accused Iran of pursuing the destruction of his country.
Speaking at the United Nations, Hadi thanked Custodian of...
