President Hassan Rouhani will make the first visit to Japan by an Iranian head of state for two decades Friday, as Tokyo seeks to mediate between Tehran and Washington amid spiralling nuclear tensions. The trip comes after violent protests last month over petroleum price hikes in Iran,...

Nearly 30,000 police officers have been killed since 2003, the end of the Saddam Hussein era, Iraqi officials announced Wednesday  "The Interior Ministry can list 28,600 martyrs from 2003 until now," Zamil al-Saadi, the ministry’s director of martyrs and wounded affairs, said in a...

UN humanitarian coordinator for the occupied Palestinian Territory said Thursday that 2.4 million people are in need of assistance, but the UN is targeting just 1.5 million because of funding difficulties.   Jamie McGoldrick held a news briefing in Geneva after Palestinian Prime...

The Arab League Thursday condemned Brazil's opening of a trade office in Jerusalem and warned it against carrying out President Jair Bolsonaro's pledge to move its embassy there. The Brazilian leader has said he will follow US President Donald Trump's controversial step of moving his...