The United States has resumed processing visas at its missions in Turkey on a "limited basis", the embassy said in an email on Monday, in what could signal a tentative improvement in the ongoing diplomatic crisis between the two countries. Turkey and the United States mutually suspended all...

Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz received resigned Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri on Monday, Al Arabiya News Channel reported. Hariri quit on Saturday, saying he believed there was an assassination plot against him and accusing Iran with its Lebanese ally Hezbollah of sowing...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi raised on Sunday the Iraqi flag at a border crossing with Syria days after Iraqi forces retook it from the ISIS group, state TV announced. Al-Iraqiya TV said al-Abadi visited the newly-liberated town of Qaim and the nearby Husaybah border crossing in...

Egypt summoned the British, German, Dutch, Italian and Canadian ambassadors Sunday after the European countries criticized the detention of an Egyptian human rights lawyer, a statement from the Egyptian foreign ministry said. The criticism issued in a statement late on Friday was over...