ISTANBUL: Istanbul will vote for a mayor for the second time in three months on Sunday as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s party fights to win back the city after a shock defeat in March.The

TEHRAN, Iran: Iran’s Revolutionary Guard shot down a US drone on Thursday amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington over its collapsing nuclear deal with world powers, American and Iranian officials said, while disputing

London, England - It took Shuchi Sharma Bhatnaga months to realise that what she was experiencing was loneliness.  She had moved to London in April 2018, after her husband was offered a job. They

Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard force said Thursday it shot down a US "spy drone" over its territory, Iranian state television reported. "The US-made Global Hawk surveillance drone was brought down" in the country's southern

BASRA, Iraq: A rocket struck the site of the residential and operations headquarters of several global major oil companies, including US giant ExxonMobil, near Iraq’s southern city of Basra early on Wednesday, wounding three

JEDDAH: Iran “will not wage war against any nation,” President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday — hours after two drones launched by Iran-backed Houthi militias in Yemen targeted civilians in southern Saudi Arabia. Rouhani's

The United Nations extrajudicial executions investigator, Agnes Callamard, is set to release her report on the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Wednesday. Callamard, who has led an international inquiry into Khashoggi's killing

The emir of Kuwait is due to arrive in Baghdad in order to mediate in a bitter dispute between the US and Iran. Iraq finds itself increasingly caught between the two sides. Sheikh Sabah

Iraqi cleric Al-Sadr threatens to withdraw support for Abdul Mahdi’s government BAGHDAD: Moqtada Al-Sadr, the powerful Iraqi Shiite cleric, on Monday threatened to withdraw his support for the government of Adel Abdul Mahdi if

DUBAI/WASHINGTON: Acting US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan announced on Monday the deployment of about 1,000 more troops to the Middle East for what he said were “defensive purposes,” citing concerns about a threat from