The murder of Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi in a year when more than half of all journalists killed were targeted deliberately reflects a hatred of the media in many...

The UAE has agreed to host peace talks between the Taliban and government of Afghanistan in a meeting today with US officials, to bring a negotiated end to the...

Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani has accused the US of transferring Daesh militants to war-torn Afghanistan in an attempt to trigger instability in Asia. Speaking during a meeting on...

Qatar will more than double its naval forces by 2025 as a massive new base comes online and it expands a national service programme amid a protracted dispute with...

Migrants were stranded in Yumurta island in northern Aegean sea

Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday that it and Bahrain had added Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps and senior officers from its Quds Force to their lists of people and organisations...

Daesh leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi recently escaped to Afghanistan via Iran, it emerged this weekend. Al-Baghdadi is believed to have reached Nangarhar Province, situated east of the Afghan capital...

Those who follow US politics are aware that various corporate interests, political lobbies and power-brokers are responsible for creating the red or green lines in presidential policy. In other...

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will warn on Thursday that the threat from Islamist militants is growing and the current approach for tackling the threat will fail unless...

American diplomats held secret talks regarding the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan with the Taliban in Qatar, the group claimed yesterday. Several members of the Taliban’s political commission were part...

Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are to join the longest conflict in US history, by supporting the NATO-led coalition in Afghanistan. Abu Dhabi and Doha will be...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Friday reacted to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s recent remarks about demonstrations in Tehran, saying: “Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t...

Seven years of war have turned Syria into one of the world’s most dangerous countries for women, according to a global poll released on Tuesday, with experts sounding the...

At least 74 undocumented migrants have been held in northwestern Turkey, security sources said Friday. In Canakkale’s Ayvacik district, gendarmes held a total of 41 undocumented migrants, including women...

Afghanistan has accepted an offer from the United Arab Emirates to boost its presence in training Afghan forces fighting Islamist insurgents, senior government officials said, as Kabul seeks to...

Ignore the theological failings of Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi for a moment, and the enormous degree of violence and bigotry that his group practiced. It is time to give the...

The EU statistical office, Eurostat said the number of people applying for asylum in the European Union has declined by nearly half in the past year compared with 2016....

Inside Baghdad’s Ibn Rushd hospital are wards populated by male patients, old and young, battling drug and substance addictions. The hospital provides recovery services, but the misery of sufferers...

Afghan officials sought to shut down the Taliban’s only peace office located in Doha, Al Jazeera reported today. Afghan government officials are reported to be saying that the Taliban...