Category: 3. Middle East

Following Iraq’s parliamentary election this week, the complex and often lengthy task of choosing the country’s next leader is set to begin.

Incumbent Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani claimed victory for his coalition after preliminary…

Israel’s defence minister said on Wednesday he planned to close publicly funded Army Radio in what he described as an attempt to preserve the military’s nonpartisan character, but the decision was denounced by the…

Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi says both fighters who carried out suicide attacks on Islamabad and South Waziristan were Afghan nationals.

Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi has said both suicide bombers involved in the two attacks in the…

Twenty-six days before a huge blast ripped through a crowded thoroughfare in Delhi, killing 13 people, a pamphlet with a green letterhead had appeared in Nowgam, a staid neighbourhood of cinder-block homes and rutted streets on the outskirts of…

With costs rising and government subsidies under pressure, Republicans and Democrats remain sharply divided over how much the government should pay for health insurance and how…

A horde of extremist Jewish settlers set fire to the Hajjah Hamida Mosque in the town of Deir Istiya, northwest of Salfit in the occupied West Bank, at dawn Thursday.

According to local sources, settlers attacked the…

By Alessandro Parodi

(Reuters) -French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said on Thursday there was a high chance he would visit Algeria, hailing the north African country’s release of writer Boualem Sansal as a glimmer of hope that relations…

Despite her injury, Warda Abu Jarad has started baking cookies and bread to help provide for her family.

A woman in Gaza blinded in an Israeli air strike has opened a…

Israeli soldiers accused of sexually assaulting a Palestinian detainee are trying to win public sympathy through media appearances, while the person who leaked video of the assault faces prison. The Palestinian victim, like so many…

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi said on Thursday that both suicide bombers involved in the attacks in the country this week were Afghan nationals.

(Reporting by Asif Shahzad; Writing by Surbhi Misra; Editing by YP…