court in Iraq Thursday sentenced to death a Russian militant for being a member of Daesh (ISIS), a judicial source said. The person who received the sentence in Baghdad's central criminal court was only identified by the name Hassanov, said the same source. More than 300 people,...

At least one person was killed in Iran's southern city of Kazeroon when protesters set fire to a police station, the semi-official Fars news agency reported Thursday. It said the protest Wednesday night had left at least one person dead and at least six others wounded. "A small...

Saudi Arabia on Wednesday evening announced that it had placed several people linked to Hezbollah on its terrorist list, including Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and his deputy, Naim Qasim, according to the Saudi state press.   “Saudi state security agencies have issued joint...

Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said Thursday an agreement between Skopje and Athens to settle a decades old name dispute could be reached before a European Union summit in June. Zaev met his Greek counterpart Alexis Tsipras on the sidelines of the EU-Western Balkans summit in...