The Iranian authorities have released most of the people arrested during December’s anti-government protests but around 300 remain in jail facing charges, Iran’s interior minister said...
A senior preacher at an influential Islamic seminary in northern India has issued a religious decree saying that Muslim women should not watch men playing football....
The UK economy will grow more slowly outside the European Union, no matter what deal is struck with Brussels, a leaked government document suggests. The BuzzFeed...
The Israeli army said Monday it was creating a unified command in Palestinian areas adjoining occupied east Jerusalem after a rise in attacks launched from the...
The Syrian government’s chemical weapons stockpile has been linked for the first time by laboratory tests to the largest sarin nerve agent attack of the civil...
A Syrian peace conference in Russia got off to a rocky start Tuesday after some delegates opposed to President Bashar Assad refused to leave the airport...
Israel said Tuesday it was reopening its embassy in Jordan which has been shut for six months, after the countries resolved a diplomatic dispute over a...
A senior Hamas official has died in Gaza three weeks after shooting himself in the head in what officials described as an accident, the Palestinian movement...
An explosion ripped through a car on Tuesday killing six members of a family driving to a Pakistan village to attend a funeral in the northwestern...
At least 36 people have been killed and 185 wounded in two days of heavy fighting between separatists and government troops in Yemen’s interim capital of...
Australia’s military said on Tuesday that a fitness tracking application did not breach security despite revelations that an interactive, online map using its data can show...