Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has offered to broker peaceful negotiations between the Syrian government and opposition forces after more than two years of war.
Member states of the UN nuclear agency voted down an Arab-backed resolution targeting Israel for criticism over its clandestine nuclear weapons arsenal.
Militants in northeast Afghanistan killed 18 police in an ambush, the interior ministry said Friday, as the nation's security forces struggle to thwart the Taliban.
Two bombs exploded in a mosque in Iraq as worshippers entered for prayers on Friday, killing 16 people, police and a doctor said.
Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region has begun early voting a couple of days ahead of the area’s fourth parliamentary elections.
A senior Iranian human rights authority has portrayed American officials as warmongers and corrupt while emphasizing that the Islamic Republic should be recognized as a nation opposed to such features.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has criticized the Israeli regime for doing “injustice to people of the Middle East” and sowing instability in the region.
Egypt has returned to Qatar 2 billion dollar that Qatar had deposited with Egypt's central bank for bonds.
A Bahrain court on Thursday jailed five more activists for periods up to 10 years after convicting them of allegedly attacking a government building with petrol bombs, a judicial source said.
Roadside bombs targeting a convoy of minibuses in Syria's Homs province killed at least 19 people on Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.