Iraq closed two border crossings with Iran to travellers amid protests in the Islamic Republic, the Iraqi Border Ports Commission said on Saturday.    In a statement, the commission said the Shalamcheh and al-Shib crossings are still open to the movement of goods and...

One person was killed in the Iranian city of Sirjan during protests that erupted after President Hassan Rouhani’s government imposed gasoline rationing and price hikes of at least 50 percent, Iranian ISNA news agency reported on Saturday. The government announced on Friday that the price...

Turkey is busy rebuilding roads in regions of northeastern Syria liberated by its anti-terror operation launched last month, said Turkish officials on Saturday. On Twitter, Turkey's National Defense Ministry posted a video showing roads being rebuilt in Tal Abyad, an area cleared of...

Supporters of ousted Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir held a protest Saturday vowing to oppose any move by the country's new authorities to hand him over to the International Criminal Court. Dozens of his supporters, carrying Bashir's portrait, gathered outside the Khartoum court where he is...