Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says an intellectual war to change Syria’s identity is one of the gravest aspects of the colonial aggression gripping the Arab country for more than three years.
Iran will need 30,000 of its new generation centrifuges and more power plants to meet domestic fuel demands, its nuclear chief has said.
Two young Egyptian political dissidents claim they were raped in Egyptian police custody in separate assaults that campaigners suspect are indicative of a wider strategy as the brutal crackdown on opposition continues.
The Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union has sealed off a Syrian border crossing with Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, an Iraqi border official has said.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called for dialogue to ease the escalating tensions in Ukraine.
Fierce clashes between multi-national militant groups and the Syrian army in the northwestern province of Aleppo has left 16 militants dead and several others injured.
Ukraine's government has sent security forces into the eastern city of Slaviansk where pro-Russian separatists have seized control in what Kiev describes as an act of aggression by the Kremlin.
New reports suggest that Ankara has worked with the US and Britain to smuggle Libya's guns to Syria to help militant groups who have not reached triumph in fighting Syrian armed forces.
A suicide bomber has detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle at a checkpoint in northern Iraq on Sunday, killing seven police, and gunmen have shot dead three people, officials say.
An Iranian national charged with spying for the United States’ Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has escaped the death penalty and will instead serve 10 years behind bars.