Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has criticized what he described as "racist and worrisome" comments made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following the victory of the latter's Likud party in this week's parliamentary polls. "We have followed the Israeli...

The are 4,000 Turkmen fighters battling Daesh in the northern province of Kirkuk and 10,000 others have finished their training in Mosul, Iraqi government officials claimed on Thursday. Jassem Mohammed Jaafar, an Iraqi MP and a member of Kirkuk’s Turkmen coalition said there are...

Clashes erupted on Tuesday in the Iranian city of Ahwaz, which has a predominantly ethnic Arab population, following a football match between the local Foolad Khuzestan and Saudi Arabia’s al-Hilal in the AFC Champions League. There had been reports...

(Reuters) - Iraq's government will make a budget payment to Kurdish authorities "within days", the finance minister said, playing down concerns that an oil export deal that helped thaw bilateral relations could collapse. Hoshiyar Zebari told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday the...