South-West Asia

By John Irish WEISSENHAUS, Germany (Reuters) -There is little chance of the United States agreeing to remove Iran's elite security...

By Ali Sawafta RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) -Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday that Israeli authorities were "fully responsible"...

By Aziz El Yaakoubi and Mohammed Alghobari RIYADH (Reuters) - Yemen's government has agreed to allow Houthi-issued passport holders to...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani said on Thursday that those responsible for killing veteran Al...

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - The White House on Wednesday strongly condemned the killing of Al Jazeera reporter and...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Qatar's emir will travel to Tehran on Thursday, Iran's official IRNA news agency reported. Reuters reported on...

By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) -An international donor conference raised $6.7 billion for Syria and its neighbours on Tuesday despite...

BRUSSELS/PARIS (Reuters) -The head of the United Nations' atomic watchdog said on Tuesday Iran was dragging its feet on information...

DUBAI (Reuters) -Ahmadreza Djalali, a Swedish-Iranian disaster medicine researcher arrested by Iran, will be executed without a possibility of exchange...

By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian near the barrier with the West Bank and another...

(Reuters) -Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz will stay in hospital for some time to rest on doctors' advice after...

(Reuters) - Iraq's Ministry of Defence signed contracts with the United States and France to import advanced weapons and strengthen...

DUBAI (Reuters) - The European Union's Iran nuclear talks coordinator Enrique Mora is to visit Tehran on Tuesday, the semi-official...

ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) -A missile attack targeted an oil refinery in Iraq's northern city of Erbil on Sunday causing a...

ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey condemned Germany's summoning of its ambassador on Friday and called in Berlin's ambassador to Ankara in a...

DUBAI (Reuters) -Israel's actions are creating conditions for its own destruction, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards commander on Friday told a Jerusalem...

CAIRO (Reuters) -The Saudi Arabian-led coalition fighting in Yemen said on Thursday it would release 163 prisoners from Yemen's Iran-aligned...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad appointed Ali Mahmoud Abbas as new defence minister on Thursday, a presidency statement...

(Reuters) -Four Syrian soldiers were killed on Wednesday, Syria's defence ministry said, in an Israeli missile attack on positions near...

By Orhan Coskun ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan plans to visit Saudi Arabia on Thursday and meet Crown...