(Reuters) - Eight Iranian border guards were killed by militants in a cross-border raid on the frontier with  Pakistan  on Monday, according to reports in the Iranian media. Sistan-Baluchestan province in southeast Iran has long been plagued by unrest from both drug...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said Turkey and Iran "should play the role of mediator" in the conflicts in Iraq and Syria. During a joint press conference with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Tehran on Tuesday, Erdogan said "history and culture has been slaughtered in...

  The representative of Iraq's regional Kurdish government to the U.S. said Monday that Kurdish forces fighting Daesh are being deprived of sufficient military aid from Baghdad and the U.S. coalition.   "Peshmerga, although valiant, heroic and committed to fight ISIS,...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday  Israel  had released frozen tax revenue to the Authority but that he had ordered the funds to be returned because money had been deducted to cover debts to Israeli utility companies. Israel started...