Kuwait's new emir has asked the Gulf state's cabinet to carry on its duties and prepare for parliamentary elections due this year after the prime minister handed in his government's resignation, state news agency KUNA reported Tuesday. Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Khalid al-Sabah met Emir...

Almost two decades after the United States launched what would become its longest-ever war with air strikes on Afghanistan's ruling Taliban regime, the hardline group are in a stronger position than ever. The invasion on October 7, 2001 quickly toppled the militants, who had harbored...

Lebanese President Michel Aoun will not sign decrees dismissing three officials charged in a probe into the August 4 Beirut port blast without a formal cabinet vote, his office said Monday. The director of land and maritime transport, Abdel Hafiz Kaissi, the port's director-general Hassan...

Syria's Kurds have agreed to allow thousands of Syrians including relatives of militants to leave a squalid and over-populated camp they administer, a top official said Monday. "Syrian nationals will leave the Al-Hol camp and only foreigners will remain," said Riyad Derar, the co-chair of...