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Restrictions may also be placed on investigators examining alleged war crimes involving Israel

The EU saw 580,800 first-time asylum application in 2018, a drop of 11 per cent, the bloc’s statistical office reported on Thursday, Anadolu Agency reports. The number of applicants...

The fifth round of peace talks between the US and Afghan Taliban ended on Tuesday without reaching a final deal, officials said, Anadolu Agency reports. The talks in Qatar’s...

Turkish Foreign Minister: "The Afghan people have greater need than the Palestinians...But they sent this money here [to Palestinians], forgetting their own hardship..."

President Donald Trump told American troops on Thursday that US-backed forces in Syria have retaken 100 percent of the territory once held by Daesh militants, contradicting the commander of...

Starvation, disease and a lack of aid are killing 300 babies a day in war zones around the world, with the number of children caught up in conflicts nearing...

Over the past six weeks, US President Donald Trump has occupied the world with controversial statements about the future of the presence of US troops in its three largest...

The US Senate on Tuesday progressed a bill that cautions US President Donald Trump against swift withdrawal from Syria and Afghanistan and sanctions US companies which support the boycott...

The Republican-led US Senate backed largely symbolic legislation on Monday that broke with President Donald Trump by opposing plans for any abrupt withdrawal of troops from Syria and Afghanistan, Reuters...

The Republican leader of the US Senate offered legislation on Tuesday urging the United States to keep troops in Syria and Afghanistan, as President Donald Trump’s administration moves toward...

The European Commission has added Saudi Arabia to an EU draft list of countries that pose a threat to the bloc because of lax controls against terrorism financing and...

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...