Turkey slammed a statement by European Union Mediterranean states on Friday, saying the comments were biased and “detached from reality”, but added Ankara was still open to unconditional talks with Greece. NATO members Turkey and Greece have overlapping claims to continental shelves and...

A first official visit to Israel by a United Arab Emirates delegation, provisionally planned for Sept 22, may be postponed or conducted under restrictions given a looming coronavirus lockdown, an Israeli cabinet minister said Friday. The delegates are expected to come in reciprocation of...

Thousands of supporters of Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr gathered at a mosque in east Baghdad Friday for the first weekly prayers since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. Iraq's mosques have been closed to gatherings for close to six months, but notoriously outspoken Sadr said Wednesday that...

A trove of Saddam-era files secretly returned to Iraq has pried open the country's painful past, prompting hopes some may learn the fate of long-lost relatives along with fears of new bloodshed. The five million pages of internal Baath Party documents were found in 2003, just months after...