Police in the Iranian capital did not fire on protesters and officers have been under orders to show restraint, Tehran’s police chief said in a statement carried by the state broadcaster’s website on Monday. Videos posted on social media, posted late on Sunday, had recorded gunshots...

Iraqi officials fear economic "collapse" if Washington imposes threatened sanctions, including blocking access to a US-based account where Baghdad keeps oil revenues that feed 90 percent of the national budget. US President Donald Trump was outraged by the Iraqi parliament voting on January...

Four rockets slammed into an Iraqi airbase north of Baghdad where US troops are based, military sources told AFP Sunday, with security forces saying four Iraqi airmen were wounded. A majority of US airmen stationed at the Al-Balad airbase north of Baghdad had already left, the military...

The leaders of Britain, France and Germany called Sunday in a joint statement on Iran to return to full compliance with a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers and refrain from further violence. "We urge Iran to reverse all measures inconsistent with the agreement and return to full...

Israeli lawmakers got the backing Sunday of parliament's legal adviser to debate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's immunity request, but the speaker may yet stand in the way. Netanyahu has been charged in three separate corruption cases and his immunity request had been expected to delay...

The Trump administration tried to amplify voices of dissent in Iran Sunday by suggesting that the Islamic Republic is under internal threat after denying and then admitting it shot down a Ukrainian passenger plane. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said street protests in Tehran show that the...

Britain's ambassador to Tehran denied Sunday that he took part in a demonstration that broke out at a memorial for the 176 people killed when a plane was shot down. Students held a gathering at Tehran's Amir Kabir University on Saturday evening to honour those killed hours after Iran...

Lebanon's central bank is seeking extra powers to regulate and standardise controls which commercial banks are imposing on depositors, the governor said on Sunday, saying his intention was to ensure "fair relationships" between banks and customers. Central bank governor Riad Salameh, in a...

US President Donald Trump warned Iran against cracking down on protests that broke out after it admitted shooting down an airliner by mistake, killing all 176 people aboard. "The government of Iran must allow human rights groups to monitor and report facts from the ground on the ongoing...

Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency, in a rare report on anti-government unrest, said protesters in Tehran on Saturday chanted slogans against the nation’s top authorities, after the powerful Revolutionary Guards admitted shooting down a passenger plane. The report said the demonstrators...

Hundreds of Iraqis on Saturday mourned two reporters shot dead the previous evening in the country's southern city of Basra, where they had been covering months of anti-government protests. Ahmad Abdessamad, a 37-year-old correspondent for local television station Al-Dijla, and his...

Crisis-hit Lebanon on Saturday said it "regrets" being among seven countries stripped by the United Nations of voting privileges in the General Assembly for failing to pay their dues. The UN decision could "harm Lebanon's interests, its prestige and reputation," the foreign ministry said in...

A statement by Iran saying it accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger plane confirms one of the working theories of the Ukrainian state security service (SBU) on what caused the crash, SBU chief Ivan Bakanov said on Saturday. Contrary to what some experts had said initially, the SBU...

The U.S. Friday rebuffed an Iraqi request to prepare to pull out its troops, amid heightened U.S.-Iranian tensions after the U.S. killing of an Iranian commander in Baghdad. Seeking to tighten pressure on its arch foe, the United States meanwhile imposed more sanctions on Iran, responding to an...

The U.S. military tried, but failed, to take out another senior Iranian commander on the same day that an American airstrike killed the Revolutionary Guard's top general, U.S. officials said Friday. The officials said a military airstrike targeted Abdul Reza Shahla’i, a high-ranking...

Daesh (ISIS) gloated over the recent U.S. killing of a senior Iranian general, who rose to prominence by advising forces fighting the extremists. In the first Daesh comments since Gen. Qassem Soleimani's slaying, the group said his death "pleased the hearts of believers." The editorial was...

Two suspects that allegedly vandalized banks in December have been arrested, a statement from the Lebanese Army said Friday. The Army’s statement said riots took place in Jounieh and in areas nearby, in December and earlier this month, some of which were documented in videos that were...

The United States on Friday announced fresh sanctions against eight top Iranian officials it accused of working to destabilize the region, as well as against more than a dozen leading producers of metals in the Islamic republic. "As a result of these actions, we will cut off billions of...

Thousands of Iraqis rallied across the country on Friday, reviving a months-long protest movement against the government and adding criticisms of both the US and Iran to their chants. The anti-regime demonstrations had been overshadowed recently by spiralling tensions between Tehran and...

Iraq's most senior Shi'ite Muslim cleric on Friday condemned mutual U.S. and Iranian attacks on Iraqi territory and warned of deteriorating security in the country and the wider Middle East as a result of Washington's confrontation with Tehran. European foreign ministers were also meeting...