UN warns Taliban has overrun more than 50 northern districts with US withdrawal under way
Ebrahim Raisi rules out meeting with President Joe Biden and demands Washington guarantee it will not pull out of the nuclear accord again
Officials estimate low rainfall in wheat-growing areas risks leaving an import gap of at least 1.5-million tonnes
The Palestinian Authority has agreed to give Israel a reciprocal number of Pfizer-BioNTech doses from one of its own shipments due to arrive later in 2021
Ebrahim Raisi stands accused of human rights abuses stretching back decades
The companies involved say the land bridge is the shortest, most efficient and cost-effective route to transport oil from the Gulf to the West
Election is seen as a referendum on the Islamic Republic’s handling of political and economic crises
Parliament approves a new ‘government of change’ led by nationalist in razor-thin vote of confidence
A UN expert urged the UAE's government to immediately release five human rights defenders who have been imprisoned in harsh conditions for eight years
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls newly formed coalition ‘the greatest election fraud’ in the history of democracy
Riad Salameh, who has led the monetary authority for 28 years, also faces a probe by Swiss prosecutors
Benjamin Netanyahu’s rule in jeopardy as Yair Lapid tells Israeli president he can form a coalition government
Lapid, a former TV host and author, has yet to clinch a deal with his main partner, nationalist Naftali Bennett, who would serve as premier first under a ...
Naftali Bennett, a former ally and a pro-settlement security hawk, joins anti-Netanyahu coalition
Despite the inevitable pushback from religious conservatives, and the usual pay disparity, working women now make up a third of the labour force
President Hassan Rouhani orders closures as subsidised power prices attract cryptocurrency miners
At least one person died and several were injured in protests to demand accountability for the deaths of Iraqi activists
Iran’s presidential election in June comes amid talks on deal to revive 2015 nuclear accord
US secretary of state hopes to strengthen Israel-Gaza ceasefire
Neither Israel nor Hamas had reported violations of the truce by Sunday morning
