Iranian forces have killed six militants in a raid in the restive southeast, state media reported Saturday, saying they were...
NEW YORK and RIYADH — The ATP Tour, in a landmark partnership with the Public Investment Fund (PIF), has unveiled...
Strong backing for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan among Turks in Germany in last weekend's historic election has sparked renewed soul-searching...Erdogan's success in Germany was helped in large part by well-organised, and well-funded overseas organisations, said Gokay Sofuoglu, chairman of the Turkish Community in Germany
While many Turks in Germany have high levels of education, good jobs and decent incomes, critics say some still feel disillusioned by low levels of participation in politics
Turkey and Hungary are the only NATO countries that have yet to ratify Sweden's membership bid. Erdogan, who was re-elected...Stoltenberg said he had already spoken to Erdogan by phone earlier this week to "highlight the importance of making progress" on Sweden's membership
Swedish Foreign Minister said Stockholm had fulfilled "all the commitments" to join NATO and urged Turkey and Hungary to allow his country into the alliance
- "As a result of our ongoing evaluation of effective security cooperation with all partners, two months ago, the UAE withdrew...
It is active in crucial but troubled Gulf waters where tankers have been seized and attacked in recent months.
A spokesperson for the Combined Maritime Forces said the UAE remains a partner nation, despite putting its participation on hold.
- The mediators of the talks in the Saudi Red Sea city of Jeddah have acknowledged repeated violations of the truce by...
The Sudanese army said the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) had also "repeatedly violated the truce", a Sudanese government official said
Sudan specialist Aly Verjee said the mediators were eager to avoid a complete breakdown of the talks, for fear of a major escalation on the ground
In an unprecedented salvage plan, the UN has purchased a super-tanker to remove the oil from the vessel in the...The salvage operation, which will cost an estimated more than $140 million, has been assigned to a company called SMIT Salvage
SMIT Salvage will pump the oil from the 47-year-old Safer to the now UN-owned ship called Nautica, and then tow away the empty tanker
Tehran, Iran-- Terming the UAE as a reliable trade partner, Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said bilateral between the...The Iranian foreign minister made the remarks during a meeting with Khalifa Shaheen Al Marar, Minister of State of the UAE
Abdollahian said that ties between the two countries are strengthening at both the government and private sector levels
- Syriac-speaking communities in Iraq and Syria have declined over the years, owing to decades of conflict driving many to seek...
Syriac has traditionally been the language spoken by Christians in Iraq and neighbouring Syria, mostly in homes but also in some schools and during church services
Syriac is also taught at around 265 schools across Iraq, according to Imad Salem Jajjo, responsible for Syriac education within the education ministry
- On the big day for the Hashemite kingdom, a key Western ally, the royal red motorcade, reserved for special occasions,...
The eldest son of King Abdullah II will marry Saudi fiancee Rajwa Al Saif at the grand royal wedding with regional monarchs, US First Lady Jill Biden is also among the guests
Photos of Saif's henna bridal party took the internet by storm last week as she donned a white gown with an Arabic poetry verse embroidered: "When I see you, life becomes sweet"
Iraq's supreme court ruled as unconstitutional the extended mandate of autonomous Kurdistan's parliament, rendering invalid votes taken by the chamber...The president of the top federal court in Baghdad, found unconstitutional the year-long extension of the chamber's mandate.
As a result, decisions taken by the Kurdistan parliament since October 2022 "are constitutionally invalid", the judge said.
Russia has for years been issuing passports to people living in the eastern Donbas areas held by pro-Moscow separatists since...People from the occupied regions told AFP this month that they had been pressured into taking up a Russian passport.
The EU has said it will not recognize Russian passports issued by Moscow in the "illegally-occupied" regions of Ukraine.
