Thousands of supporters of an influential, radical Shiite cleric gathered Friday in central Baghdad for a rally to demand that American troops leave the country amid heightened anti-US sentiment after a drone strike ordered by Washington earlier this month killed a top Iranian general in the...

Iraq has approved contracts in a fifth bid round for exploration contracts the east of the country, the government said in a statement Thursday. The exploration deals in Diyala province are to develop fields that are expected to produce 750 million cubic feet of natural gas within 36...

 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced Iran on Thursday as “the most anti-Semitic regime on the planet”, telling world leaders at a Holocaust memorial event that Israel would always defend itself against those seeking to destroy it. Israel has hailed the World...

Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Thursday that Russia's S-400 air defence system was compatible with NATO, which needed to set up a working group to study it. "The claim is that the S400 and F-35s are incompatible. That's the claim. Here is our proposal, let’s have a working...