Australia has barred a citizen with alleged ties to the Islamic State from returning home from Syria, as repatriation efforts for IS-linked families continue to face challenges.

Fragility, in an island state, is not a metaphor. It is geography.

The live-fire naval drills are a signal from Iran of the potential fallout to the world economy if the US goes through with ...

The move came amid heightened US military deployments in West Asia, open threats of force from Washington, and domestic ...

Charismatic U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, an eloquent Baptist minister raised in the segregated South who became a close associate of Martin ...

Every year, millions of Muslims around the world eagerly await the sighting of the Ramadan crescent moon, a moment charged with spiritual, historical .

Iraq’s national oil marketer is moving to renew the agreement governing exports of the Kurdistan Region’s oil, a senior ...

MOSCOW. Feb 18 (Interfax) - Iraq's cabinet has approved an "amicable settlement" with Russia's Lukoil on transferring oil production operations at the huge West Qurna 2 field to the Basra Oil Company.

Kuwaiti authorities have seized more than 300,000 Captagon pills in the Gulf state in a co-ordinated security operation with neighbouring Iraq.

The assault that culminated in the surrender of Kurdish sovereignty was not solely Syrian. It was engineered regionally, with Turkey as a dominant architect and beneficiary. And US Amb. to Turkey, Tom ...

What happens when the proxy network loses its patron but not its guns? We might be about to find out. Negotiations between the United States and Iran ...

Syria’s government is moving to close the facility and relocate detainees after escapes and rioting | World News ...