Australia is poised to bar its citizens who have fought for Daesh from returning home for up to two years, under new laws discussed in Parliament Tuesday. The controversial legislation would give hardline Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton the ability to invoke "exclusion orders" to prevent...

A leading rights group is criticizing Egyptian authorities for imposing repressive probation measures on pro-democracy activists recently released from prison. The measures require those released to report every day to the police and spend the night at the nearest police station for months,...

Iran said it will attend a meeting in Vienna Sunday of diplomats from countries still party to the 2015 nuclear deal, as they try to salvage the landmark agreement. The hard-won deal has been threatened with collapse since the United States withdrew from it last year and reimposed biting...

The United Arab Emirates, part of a Saudi-led military coalition, is not leaving war-torn Yemen despite an ongoing drawdown and redeployment of Emirati forces, a UAE minister has said. "Just to be clear, the UAE and the rest of the coalition are not leaving Yemen," minister of state for...