Iran will never succumb to U.S. pressure and if Washington wants talks with Tehran it should show respect, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Monday. Tension between Tehran and Washington have risen sharply in recent weeks, a year after Washington exited a 2015 deal between Iran...

Ankara will retaliate against any assault from Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar's forces, which he had ordered to attack Turkish ships and interests in the country, Turkey's defense minister said Sunday. "There will be a very heavy price for hostile attitudes or attacks, we will retaliate in...

The Palestinian Authority has released from custody a West Bank businessman arrested for attending a U.S.-led conference in Bahrain aimed at starting a Middle East peace effort, a family source said Sunday. Salah Abu Mayala, a businessman from the city of Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West...

Iraq's sacrifices fighting Daesh (ISIS) have earned the country greater support in its reconstruction efforts from the international community, Prime Minister Adel Abdel-Mahdi said Saturday. Mahdi made his comments Saturday morning during a meeting with a visiting U.N. Security Council...

Israeli police said Sunday they had detained and were questioning the Palestinian minister for Jerusalem affairs, while a source close to the official said he was arrested in his home. Palestinian minister for Jerusalem affairs Fadi al-Hadami was detained and was being questioned for...

Iran will soon exceed an enriched uranium limit under its nuclear deal, after remaining signatories to the pact fell short of Tehran's demands to be shielded from U.S. sanctions, the semi-official Fars news agency cited an "informed source" as saying. Iran's envoy to a meeting of the...

An official with an Iran-backed militia said members of his group comprised the majority of protesters outside the Bahrain embassy in the Iraqi capital that was attacked this week. But he says he doesn't know who stormed the mission. Jaafar al-Husseini, spokesperson for the Kataeb...

The Palestinian Authority has arrested a Palestinian businessman who attended the U.S.-led economic workshop in Bahrain this week, Israel's Haaretz newspaper and Kan public broadcaster reported Saturday. The businessman was identified as Salah Abu Miala from the Palestinian city of Hebron,...

The Iranian foreign minister said on Saturday that Iran would resist any U.S. sanctions, just as it persevered during the 1980s Iran-Iraq war when the forces of the then Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein launched a chemical attack on an Iranian town. “We persevered then, and will now,” Mohammad...

Turkey's purchase of a major Russian missile defence system is "a problem", US President Donald Trump told his Turkish counterpart in a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 on Saturday. Washington has made clear it opposes the purchase of the Russian S-400 system, giving Turkey until July 31...

Iran said on Friday it had formally lodged a complaint to the UN Security Council against the United States over a drone violating its airspace, Tasnim news agency reported. Iran "filed a complaint to the UN Security Council and the organisation's Secretary General after a US spy drone...

Israel allowed Gaza fuel deliveries to resume and expanded its fishing zone Friday in exchange for calm in the enclave, Israeli and Palestinian officials and a U.N. source said. Israel began blocking deliveries of fuel to the Gaza Strip on Tuesday after new incendiary balloons were launched...

Iraq denounced an "attack" by protesters on the embassy of Bahrain Friday that prompted Manama to recall its ambassador from Baghdad. On Thursday around 200 protesters upset by Manama's hosting of a U.S.-led Middle East peace conference torched Israeli flags outside the Bahrain embassy in...

OPEC is on red alert over escalating US-Iran tensions that have fuelled strong oil-price gains -- but the cartel and other crude-producing nations are unlikely to end output cuts at a meeting Tuesday, traders say. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, a cartel of 14...

Iran said Friday’s meeting in Vienna between the remaining signatories of the nuclear deal was the “last chance” to save the accord after the U.S. withdrawal last year and warned Tehran would not accept “artificial” solutions to U.S. sanctions. Iran is threatening to exceed the maximum...

Hundreds of angry Iraqis broke into the Bahraini embassy compound in Baghdad on Thursday, taking down the country’s flag and replacing it with a Palestinian one to protest Bahrain’s participation in a U.S.-led economic conference in Manama. A group from the crowd was also seen burning the...

The U.S. policy of maximum economic pressure on Tehran is working but the sanctions do not give Iran the right to breach its nuclear commitments, a senior U.S. official said Monday. U.S. Special Representative on Iran Brian Hook was speaking in an interview before a meeting with senior...

Palestinian officials Thursday dismissed the Bahrain conference led by "amateurs" like Jared Kushner, as they opened two days of talks on Jerusalem's future at the United Nations. The meeting at the U.N.'s European headquarters lacked the fanfare – and multi-billion dollar economic plans –...

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Thursday warned that US President Donald Trump was mistaken in thinking a war between their countries would not last long. "'Short war' with Iran is an illusion," Zarif tweeted a day after Trump said he does not want a war with Iran but warned...

The US-led coalition said Thursday it had unintentionally killed at least 1,319 civilians in strikes during its fight against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria since 2014. The figure is far lower than the death tolls given by groups that have monitored the conflict in the two...