(Reuters) - Islamic State insurgents battled Iraqi forces in the center of Baiji on Tuesday, a week after the army broke their prolonged siege of the country's largest oil refinery just outside the town, an army officer and residents said. The renewed fighting in Baiji by the...

(Reuters) - Tunisian secularist leader Beji Caid Essebsi beat incumbent President Moncef Marzouki in the first round of landmark presidential elections, but the two men will have to meet again in a December run-off, early results showed on Tuesday. Essebsi, from the Nidaa...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has expressed Tehran's commitment to continue nuclear talks with the major powers to reach a final settlement over Iran’s nuclear enrichment program. In comments made late Monday during a live televised address on state television,...

BEIRUT: Clashes with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades erupted between rival Palestinian gunmen in the refugee camp of Burj al-Barajneh in the southern suburb of Beirut Monday, killing a woman and injuring several others, security sources told The Daily Star. The...