The Trump administration plans to announce $110 billion in advanced military equipment sales and training to Saudi Arabia this weekend as President Donald Trump visits the country, officials said Friday. U.S. officials familiar with the package said it would include Abrams tanks, combat...

A suicide car bomber blew himself up at a checkpoint on a highway near oilfields in Iraq's southern province of Basra on Friday, police sources said. Several people were killed in the blast at the Rumeila checkpoint, including two soldiers and a number of civilians in a bus, the sources...

Before voting had even concluded in Iran's presidential election on Friday, the head of the opposition campaign complained of multiple "infractions" and called for an intervention by authorities. The campaign chief for hardline cleric Ebrahim Raisi said there had been "propaganda actions by...

Cholera has killed two people in the Kenyan capital this week and another five are receiving treatment in hospital, a Nairobi county public health official said on Friday. The diarrheal disease which is carried in food and water tainted by human faeces can kill within hours unless treated...