The UN's Libya mission and world powers on Tuesday urged the country's warring parties to engage in peace efforts, as doubts hung over talks set to start the next day in Geneva. The negotiations are supposed to gather delegates from a Tripoli-based unity government and representatives of an...

The powerful Shi’ite group Hezbollah is against allowing the International Monetary Fund to manage Lebanon’s financial crisis but does not oppose Lebanon seeking the IMF’s advice, the group’s deputy leader said on Tuesday. Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran and designated as a...

Russia is gearing up for a multilateral meeting on Syria with Iran and Turkey, the Kremlin spokesman said Tuesday. When asked about a possible meeting between Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russia's President Vladimir Putin on March 5, Dmitry Peskov said they are eyeing another...

Iran's deputy health minister has been infected with the new coronavirus, a ministry official said on Tuesday, amid a major outbreak in the Islamic republic. "The coronavirus test for Mr Harirchi, the deputy health minister who was on the front lines combating the coronavirus, was...