Washington: The United States expressed concern Thursday that preparations for Myanmar's landmark elections have been undermined by moves to exclude Muslim minority candidates from the ballot. Myanmar will vote on November 8 in what many hope will be its most free vote in generations...

Any Iranian bank receiving sanctions relief under a nuclear deal signed in July between Iran and six world powers would see sanctions re-imposed if it were found to be supporting Hezbollah or Iran's Qods Force, a U.S. Treasury official said on Thursday. U.S. Treasury Department's...

At least 12 people were killed when three bombs went off in mainly Shi'ite neighborhoods in central Baghdad on Thursday, security and medical sources said. Two suicide bomb attacks in the central commercial district of Bab al-Shargi killed at least eight people and wounded 18 others. A third...

Yemeni Prime Minister Khaled Bahah returned to the southern port of Aden on Wednesday in a step towards restoring a government on home soil after months of working from exile with Gulf Arab allies to combat Houthi domination of the country. Government spokesman Rajeh Badi said...