Populist Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called on Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi to announce early parliamentary elections overseen by the United Nations and without the participation of existing political parties Monday. Sadr's bloc, which came first in a 2018 election and helped...

Violent protests that erupted across Catalonia after nine separatist leaders were jailed this month makes conflict over the region's place within Spain "visible" worldwide, a leading separatist said Monday. "The world is like that. It is these incidents which get us continuously in the...

Students and schoolchildren hit the streets of Baghdad and southern Iraq Monday to join escalating calls for the government to quit, defying the education minister, legal threats and even their parents. "No school, no classes, until the regime collapses!" protestors shouted in...

Afghanistan welcomed the killing of Daesh (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as a major blow to terrorism that is expected to weaken the South Asian branch of the Middle Eastern militant group. The emergence of an Afghan affiliate of Daesh emerged in recent years created another enemy...