(Reuters) - Warships from the Saudi-led coalition have blocked a vessel carrying more than 47,000 tonnes of wheat from entering a Yemeni port, demanding  United Nations guarantees that the cargo would not go to military personnel, shipping sources said on Thursday. Ocean Marine...

(Reuters) - Iran's leader on Thursday condemned as genocide the military intervention by its main regional rival  Saudi Arabia  in Yemen, sharply escalating Tehran's rhetoric against the two-week-old air strike campaign. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Saudi...

n">(Reuters) -  Iran ian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday demanded that all sanctions on Iran be lifted at the same time as any final agreement with world powers on curbing Tehran's nuclear program is concluded. Khamenei, the Islamic Republic's most...

Daesh has released 216 Ezidi captives, most of whom are elderly people, Iraqi officials said. "The (released) group was held captive for more than seven months and has reached a safe place in Kirkuk," Khairi Buzani, general director of Ezidis affairs at the northern region of Iraq’s...