The United States has requested a closed door UN Security Council meeting Thursday for President Donald Trump's son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner, to present the administration's new Mideast peace plan, diplomatic sources told AFP Monday. Kushner intends to set forth the plan that...

 Iran is ready to cooperate with the European Union on issues related to the nuclear deal it agreed with world powers in 2015, President Hassan Rouhani was quoted as saying on Monday by the ISNA news service. He made his comments at a meeting with Josep Borell, the head of the EU’s...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called Monday for Russia to honour its pledges under a 2018 agreement after eight Turks were killed in shelling by Syrian government forces in northwestern Syria. "I hope that everyone will assume their obligations under the Astana and Sochi agreements,"...

A month after a U.S. missile killed him, Qassem Soleimani looms as large over Iraq’s fractured democracy as he ever did alive. The death of the Iranian general removed a shrewd guiding hand on the pro-Tehran Shi’ite militias who revered him, setting off a menacing new instability in...