Iran has signed a $5 billion agreement with France's Total SA and a Chinese oil company to develop its massive offshore natural gas field, the first such deal with foreign companies since the landmark 2015 nuclear deal. Officials signed the agreement in Tehran on Monday. The agreement will...

Sweden is home to some 2,000 Islamist extremists, the nation's intelligence chief said Monday, a nearly 10-fold increase in less than a decade. Anders Thornberg, head of domestic spy service Sapo, attributed the rise primarily to the sophisticated propaganda machine of Daesh (ISIS)....

President Bashar al-Assad has appeared on the Syrian currency for the first time, his portrait printed on a new 2,000-pound banknote that went into circulation on Sunday. Central bank governor Duraid Durgham said the 2,000-pound note was one of several new notes printed years ago but the...

French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Mali on Sunday to boost Western backing for a regional anti-extremist force, with France urging greater support for the Sahel region amid mounting insecurity. The so-called "G5 Sahel" countries south of the Sahara - Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali,...