The Obama-administration is making contingency plans to use air bases in Central Asia to conduct drone missile attacks in northwest…
Iraq's radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr has announced he is retiring from political life, in a handwritten note posted on…
Lebanon announced a new government on Saturday, breaking a 10-month political deadlock during which spillover violence from neighboring Syria's civil…
Lebanese politician Saad al-Hariri said moderation must win out as Lebanon faces violence fuelled by the Syria war and a…
At least seven Nato soldiers were killed while several others injured in result of a Taliban attack on a Nato…
Sixty-five detainees have been released from Afghanistan's Bagram detention centre, a move condemned by the US as "deeply regrettable". (more…)
United Arab Emirates has opened its first smart mosque in Dubai using the Quick response (QR) code technology which offers…
Algeria has started three days of national mourning for the 77 passengers who died in a military plane crash in…
Two days of talks between the Pakistani Taliban and their intermediaries in the tribal Waziristan region have concluded. (more…)
The second round of Syria peace talks has got off to a stormy start against a backdrop of continued rescue…