The U.N. envoy for Libya denounced Friday the near breakdown of a fragile truce between the country’s warring sides, citing a "serious violation" over the last 24 hours - attacks on the capital including an early morning shelling of Tripoli’s airport. Ghassan Salame, hosting diplomatic...

Iran Saturday dismissed as "rumours" a report that coronavirus has killed more than 200 people in the country, one of the hardest hit by the disease, with senior officials among those infected. Since it announced its first coronavirus deaths, Iran has scrambled to bring the outbreak under...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that he had asked President Vladimir Putin for Russia to step aside in Syria and leave Turkey to deal with Syrian government forces alone, after 34 Turkish soldiers were killed this week. Government forces, backed by Russian air power, have...

The wounded came in waves. First in ones and twos, limping up the steps and staggering through the aluminum doors, and then in wheelbarrows, with bleeding skulls and stabbed necks. Finally, the motorcycles and auto-rickshaws arrived, their seats stained with the blood of as many as they could...