Iran said on Friday it had formally lodged a complaint to the UN Security Council against the United States over a drone violating its airspace, Tasnim news agency reported. Iran "filed a complaint to the UN Security Council and the organisation's Secretary General after a US spy drone...

Israel allowed Gaza fuel deliveries to resume and expanded its fishing zone Friday in exchange for calm in the enclave, Israeli and Palestinian officials and a U.N. source said. Israel began blocking deliveries of fuel to the Gaza Strip on Tuesday after new incendiary balloons were launched...

Iraq denounced an "attack" by protesters on the embassy of Bahrain Friday that prompted Manama to recall its ambassador from Baghdad. On Thursday around 200 protesters upset by Manama's hosting of a U.S.-led Middle East peace conference torched Israeli flags outside the Bahrain embassy in...

OPEC is on red alert over escalating US-Iran tensions that have fuelled strong oil-price gains -- but the cartel and other crude-producing nations are unlikely to end output cuts at a meeting Tuesday, traders say. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, a cartel of 14...