The start of Afghanistan's election season was marred by deadly violence Sunday, just hours after President Ashraf Ghani insisted "peace is coming" to the war-torn nation. At least two people were killed and 25 others wounded in an attack targeting the Kabul office of Ghani's running mate,...

Parties to Iran's 2015 nuclear deal met in Vienna Sunday for emergency talks called in response to an escalation in tensions between Iran and the West that included confrontations at sea and Tehran's breaches of the accord. Britain, France, Germany, Russia, China and Iran have been trying...

For three months Damascus and its ally Russia have been pummelling hospitals, markets and schools in Idlib unleashing a deadly, ferocious campaign aimed at retaking Syria's last jihadist-run stronghold, analysts say. Opponents to the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have denounced...

A controversial US plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace could spell the demise of Jordan and turn it into a "Palestinian state", Jordanians and analysts warn. The initiative launched by US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner at a June conference in Bahrain dangles the prospect...