Middle East

  The United States said Wednesday it will refuse any post-war reconstruction assistance to Syria if Iran is present, expanding…

  German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen on Saturday said she could not rule out a longer-term deployment of…

  China will provide Arab states with $20 billion in loans for economic development, President Xi Jinping told top Arab…

  Pope Francis said on Saturday that building walls, occupying territories and religious fanaticism would never bring peace to the…

Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria and Patriarch of Saint Mark arrived at Rome airport Friday morning, accompanied by a church…

  For many of the thousands of joyful women packed into Tehran’s largest football stadium, their first ever chance to…

  Sameera Al Salam folds a discarded piece of newspaper into a long strip then loops it round her finger…

  The government of Qatar took the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations’ International Court of Justice (ICJ) on…

  Bahrain sees no resolution in sight to a diplomatic row between Qatar and its neighbors, which cut diplomatic and…

  Anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s political coalition has won Iraq’s parliamentary election, the election commission announced late Friday. The Saeroon…