Middle East

Baghdad: Violence in Iraq continued for the second day as militants fired rockets at Baghdad's high-security Green Zone on Tuesday, Iraq's military...

Ramallah: Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas will pay a three-day visit to Turkey from August 22-24, Palestine's ambassador in Ankara, Faed Mustafa, said on...

Tehran: India's Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, Sarbananda Sonowal on Saturday visited Shahid Beheshti terminal at Chabahar port in Iran to...

Baghdad: Influential Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr on Wednesday called on the Iraqi judiciary to dissolve the parliament by the end of next week.Al-Sadr in...

Beirut: The timing couldn't have been worse. Just a few days ahead of the second anniversary of the Beirut port explosion, which killed 216 people, injured...

Baghdad: Hundreds of Iraqi demonstrators, mostly supporters of Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr, on Saturday, stormed the heavily fortified parliament building...

Tehran: At least six people died as two cars collided on a road in central Iran on Tuesday, official IRNA news agency reported.In the accident on the...

Khartoum: Sudan on Tuesday received an aid plane carrying food and medicine provided by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the poor in the western Darfur...

Tunis: Tunisian President Kais Saied said on Monday that the country is moving toward a new republic based on freedom, justice and national dignity after he...

Jerusalem: India contributed $2.5 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).Director of the West...