Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards will play an active role in establishing a lasting “ceasefire” in crisis-hit Syria, its chief commander Mohammad Ali Jafari said, adding that disarming Lebanon’s Hezbollah was non-negotiable, state TV reported on Thursday. “Hezbollah...

Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri said on Thursday that the recent period was a wake up call for the Lebanese with different loyalties to put their country first ahead of regional issues. “The period that passed was perhaps like a wake up call for all of us to look for...

Turkish authorities issued detention warrants for 99 suspects including doctors and lawyers and have so far detained 78 of them, the state-run Anadolu agency said on Thursday, as part of a widening crackdown since last year’s failed coup attempt. The suspects were believed to be users...

A tribal sheikh was assassinated late Wednesday in the city of Shibam in Yemen’s eastern Hadhramaut province, according to a senior security source. "Unknown gunmen opened fire on Sheikh Abdullah bin Amer al-Kathiri in Shibam’s Baheira district," the security source, who spoke on...