Iran is ready for direct talks with the United States on its nuclear programme as long as Washington has “fair and real intentions,” said Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi.

An attack on a police headquarters in northern Iraq has killed at least 30 people and wounded 70, officials say.

Hundreds of thousands of Sunni protesters have held anti-government protests in Iraq’s Anbar province, complaining of marginalisation by the Shia-led government.

Turkish security services arrested Al-Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden’s son-in-law at a hotel in Ankara on Friday.

Racist comments against British Muslims that liken face-veiled women to rubbish bags have brought a conservative councilor under investigation and sparked outrage in the country.

Racist comments against British Muslims that liken face-veiled women to rubbish bags have brought a conservative councilor under investigation and sparked outrage in the country.

Protesters threw petrol bombs at the Egyptian presidential palace on Friday during a demonsration against President Mohamed Mursi, a Reuters witness said.

A security guard has been killed after a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the US embassy in the Turkish capital, Ankara, the provincial governor says.

The Syrian army has confirmed that Israeli jets crossed into Syria below radar level at dawn and carried out airstrikes against military targets.

Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Egyptian cities of Port Said, Ismailiyah and Suez in defiance of President Mohamed Morsi’s declaration of a curfew and a state of emergency after days of deadly unrest.