Cleaners in crisis-hit Beirut swept away shattered glass outside banks Wednesday after angry night-time protests over informal capital controls that left dozens of people injured. The commercial district of Hamra, a banking hub, was the scene of overnight scuffles between security forces...

President Hassan Rouhani appealed Wednesday for "unity" and flagged the need for radical changes to the way Iran is run, after a wave of angry protests over the accidental downing of a Ukrainian airliner. The Kiev-bound Boeing 737 was shot down last week in a catastrophic error shortly...

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif Wednesday rejected any direct nuclear negotiations with the United States and said he wasn't sure how long any pact by U.S. President Donald Trump would last. "We had a U.S. deal and the U.S. broke it. If we have a Trump deal, how long will it...

Moments after volleys of Iranian missiles began to batter Iraq's Ain al-Asad airbase, US soldiers at the desert facility lost contact with their ultra-powerful -- and expensive -- eyes in the sky. At the time the attack was launched at 1:35 am on January 8, the US army was flying seven...