Middle East

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan canceled his scheduled campaign rallies on Wednesday and Thursday for health reasons, weeks before May 14 presidential and parliamentary elections. “Today, I will rest at home …

A boat carrying Saudi citizens and other nationals rescued from battle-scarred Sudan arrived Saturday in Jeddah, Saudi state television said, in the first announced evacuation of civilians since fighting there …

Israel halted visits by Jews and tourists to a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site on Tuesday and its military said soldiers shot dead two Palestinian gunmen in the occupied West Bank, …

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan launched his AK Party’s (AKP) re-election campaign on Tuesday with a pledge to slash inflation to single digits and boost economic growth, as he seeks to …

Pakistan‘s army said on Saturday that attackers from Iran killed four of its border patrol soldiers. “A group of terrorists operating from Iranian side attacked a routine border patrol of …

Turkey on Thursday became the final NATO nation to ratify Finland’s membership of the US-led defence alliance in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Lawmakers unanimously backed the Nordic …

Israeli President Isaac Herzog urged the government on Monday to halt its bitterly contested judicial overhaul, a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sacked his defence minister for opposing the …

The death toll from retaliatory US strikes on Iran-linked groups in Syria following a deadly drone attack has risen to 19, a war monitor said Saturday, as Washington insisted it …

Kuwait’s constitutional court on Sunday nullified last year’s legislative elections and ruled in favour of reinstating the previous parliament, state media said, as a political crisis roils the oil-rich Gulf …

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Friday hailed Turkey’s decision to move ahead with ratifying Finland’s bid for membership of the military alliance and said he was confident Sweden would join …