The presence of foreign forces would be the main source of tension in the Gulf, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday in a meeting with Oman’s foreign minister in Tehran, according to the official presidency website. France, Italy and Denmark gave initial support for a British...

Washington's top peace envoy for Afghanistan on Sunday clarified the intra-Afghan negotiations will take place only after the U.S and Taliban conclude their agreements. U.S. special representative for Afghanistan reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad’s remarks came a day after an Afghan...

Parties to Iran's 2015 nuclear deal met in Vienna Sunday for emergency talks called in response to an escalation in tensions between Iran and the West that included confrontations at sea and Tehran's breaches of the accord. Britain, France, Germany, Russia, China and Iran have been trying...

For three months Damascus and its ally Russia have been pummelling hospitals, markets and schools in Idlib unleashing a deadly, ferocious campaign aimed at retaking Syria's last jihadist-run stronghold, analysts say. Opponents to the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have denounced...