South-West Asia

By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that Russia was ready to facilitate the unhindered export...

KYIV (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded in the Russia-controlled Ukrainian city of Melitopol city on Monday, injuring several people...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday that Ankara is ready to take...

KYIV (Reuters) -Russian troops are moving into the city of Sivierodonetsk from the outskirts, Luhansk region governor Serhiy Gaidai said...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian authorities have seized a vessel carrying 106,500 litres of smuggled fuel and its nine crew members...

KYIV (Reuters) - Russian shelling has destroyed all of the critical infrastructure in the Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk, President Volodymyr...

(Reuters) - Saudi King Salman appointed minister of state for foreign affairs Adel al-Jubeir as the kingdom's climate envoy, a...

(Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin told the leaders of France and Germany in a phone call on Saturday that...

(Reuters) - Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they seized two Greek tankers in the Gulf for unspecified violations on Friday, Iranian...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran has decided to take "punitive action" against Greece over the seizure of Iranian oil off the...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A report that some politicians in Sweden represent the Kurdistan Workers Party PKK, a Kurdish militant organisation...

RIYADH (Reuters) - No meeting between Saudi and Iranian foreign ministers has been scheduled in the foreseeable future, an official...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Qatar's Al Jazeera TV Network will refer the killing of its journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to the...

DAVOS (Reuters) - Iran has made "minimal but good progress" in relations with Saudi Arabia, Iran foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian...

By Orhan Coskun ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey is in negotiations with Russia and Ukraine to open a corridor via the Bosphorus...

(Reuters) - Ukraine is battling to remain in control of a key highway to the front-line city of Sievierodonetsk, the...

(Reuters) - Russia is ready to provide a humanitarian corridor for vessels carrying food to leave Ukraine, in return for...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday that the normalisation of ties between Turkey and Israel...

By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday raised concern over Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's plans to...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has added four individuals and six entities with links to Palestinian Islamist group Hamas...