Libya's Prime Minister-designate, Fayez al-Sarraj presents the programme of his new national unity government before the parliament of the internationally recognised government on...
Libya's Prime Minister-designate, Fayez al-Sarraj presents the programme of his new national unity government before the parliament of the internationally recognised government on...
Obama unwilling to raise expectations. Combatants must say by Friday if they will halt fighting. U.N. hopes pause will allow peace talks to...
French soldiers in action in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. REUTERS Paris: French special forces have been deployed in Libya to fight the Islamic State...
"From the start of the crisis in Syria, Iran has always insisted on a ceasefire," Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said, quoted...
Kuwait City: Kuwait on Wednesday became the latest Gulf state to urge its citizens to leave Lebanon following tensions over the Lebanese Shiite...
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu early Wednesday hosted in the capital Ankara a delegation from the Black Sea region to discuss controversial plans to...
Cairo: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi acknowledged for the first time on Wednesday that "terrorism" caused a Russian plane crash in the Sinai...
Syrian government forces look at a bridge broken by Islamic State (IS) group fighters connecting the village of al-Tiba with Aleppo's thermal power...
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves to the crowd in the holy city of Qom, 120 km (75 miles) south of Tehran...
A handout picture provided by the office of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on February 21, 2016 shows him (R) greeting Omani Minister of...
An Iranian man holds a portrait of Alireza Mahjoub, a candidate for the upcoming parliamentary elections, during a campaign meeting in Tehran on...
DUBAI: A prominent Bahraini opposition figure was sentenced to a year in jail on Wednesday on charges of insulting the kingdom’s ruling system...
File photo of Giulio Regeni. CAIRO: Egypt's Interior Ministry said on Wednesday its investigation into the death of an Italian graduate student whose...
Turkey’s Hakan Sukur waves the South Korea flag after their 2002 FIFA World Cup third place play-off match in Daegu, South Korea. Sukur...
File photo of Riek Machar. AFP By Denis Dumo JUBA: Troops allied with South Sudan’s Riek Machar, the former rebel leader and rival...
A boy carries an opposition flag as rebel fighters and civilians gather during the arrival of an aid convoy ofSyrian Arab Red Crescent...
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, October 20,...
South Africa's President Jacob Zuma at the opening ceremony of the 26th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union (AU) in...
