Iraqi PM Haider al-Abadi on Saturday rejected a call by Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to dissolve the Hashd al-Shaabi militia. Speaking to supporters on Friday, al-Sadr called for dissolving the ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan dismissed claims that Kurds are not represented in the Justice and Development Party (AKP)-dominated government. “We don’t have such a problem,” Erdogan remarked during a ...

Yemeni naval forces carried out a missile attack against a Saudi military vessel in Hudaydah, torching it off the coast of the Arab country’s western province, a military source said. ...

Hundreds of Israelis have held a demonstration against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who is embroiled in two corruption investigations. The protest took place outside Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit’s home ...

The US envoy to the international anti-ISIS coalition, Brett McGurk, said that his country is firmly opposed to the Kurdish independence referendum planned for 25th September in the Kurdistan region ...

New US sanctions will make it harder for Russia to build two gas export pipelines to Europe but the projects are unlikely to be stopped. US President Donald Trump has ...

“Chronicle of a Passion”, a drama by Italian director Fabrizio Cattani, was the big winner of the 6th International Urban Film Festival as it scooped up three awards in various ...

The publisher of Germany's Die Welt and Welt am Sonntag newspapers filed a formal complaint at the European Court of Justice about Turkey's detention of German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yucel since ...

Metin Gurcan Al-Monitor colleague Amberin Zaman summarized the results of the Supreme Military Council's (SMC) critical decisions on promotions of generals in the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK). Today we will ...

Tajikistan is ready to clear its $62 million debt for purchasing Iranian Sangtoudeh II power plant, the head of Tajikistan's Power Generation and Distribution Company said on Friday. "Dushanbe has ...