President Donald Trump called Qatar's emir Wednesday and offered his services as a mediator in a damaging feud between the emirate and its Gulf neighbors. Trump's call to Qatari ruler Emir Sheikh...
Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region will hold a referendum on statehood in September, its presidency said Wednesday, despite opposition to independence from Baghdad. "September 25, 2017 was designated...
Japan's World Cup qualifying preparations were dealt a blow Wednesday when playmaker Shinji Kagawa suffered a shoulder injury in a 1-1 home draw with Syria. The Borussia Dortmund midfielder was...
The German government decided Wednesday to withdraw its troops from Turkey's Incirlik base near the Syrian border after last-ditch talks with Ankara failed to resolve an escalating row. The military...
Moscow on Wednesday condemned a US-led coalition strike on pro-regime fighters in Syria as an "act of aggression" that targeted the most effective forces battling "terrorists" in the war-torn...
A senior Emirati official insisted on Wednesday that Gulf Arab states were not seeking regime change in Doha, as tensions built in a bitter feud between Qatar and its neighbours. Speaking to AFP in...
Six Indonesian militants were jailed Wednesday for harbouring two Uighurs who entered the country to fight with extremists linked to the Islamic State (IS) group, but were cleared of plotting to fire...
The German government decided Wednesday to withdraw its troops from Turkey's Incirlik base near the Syrian border after last-ditch talks with Ankara failed to resolve an escalating row. The military...
US-backed fighters gained ground against the Islamic State group in the streets of Raqa on Wednesday, their command said, a day after breaking into the jihadist's Syrian bastion. The Syrian...
Gunmen and a suicide bomber have carried out apparently coordinated attacks on Iran's parliament and the tomb of revolutionary founder Ruhollah Khomeini, state media said Wednesday, with at least two...
Several people have been injured after multiple gunmen opened fire inside Iran's parliament and a suicide bomber blew himself up at a shrine to the country's founder, Ayatollah Khomeini. One member...
Several people were reported injured after armed men burst into Tehran's parliament building and the mausoleum of revolutionary founder Ruhollah Khomeini, with state media reporting at least one...
Syria's Kurds were once a marginalised minority, but now they are leading the charge for the Islamic State group's Raqa bastion and hoping to cement their gains in the war. The surprise turnaround in...
It was the second time in less than a month that coalition forces have attacked pro-regime forces, a group of whom are seen near Aleppo in March 2017, as they headed toward the garrison The US-led...
Syria's army advanced into Raqa province Tuesday, a monitor and a military source said, on the same day US-backed forces pushed into its provincial capital held by the Islamic State group. "Regime...
The Italian mother of London attacker Youssef Zaghba says she tried to prevent him being radicalised, "but he had internet" and fell in with the wrong crowd in the British capital. Zaghba, 22, has...
In a series of morning tweets, President Donald Trump threw Washington's relations with Doha into deep crisis on Tuesday and raised doubts about the future of the largest US air base in the Middle...
Viewed from Tehran, the extraordinary spat between Qatar and its Gulf neighbours has many advantages, experts say, but it is also worried about yet more volatility in the troubled neighbourhood....
The EU's 3-billion euro package to help migrants in Turkey will have been fully assigned to projects by the end of the year, the bloc's envoy said Tuesday. All the funds, part of a deal with Turkey...
Secret dates, dead-drops and "bullet-free" maths lessons: these are just some of the ways residents of the Islamic State group's Syrian bastion Raqa resisted years of jihadist rule. IS has been...
