President Hassan Rouhani has an unbeatable lead in Iran's presidential election, an Iranian official source told Reuters on Saturday, citing an early unofficial tally, and is set to defeat his hardline rival Ebrahim Raisi and win a second term. In a briefing for reporters, interior ministry...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces took Friday three villages from the Islamic State east of Raqaa city after heavy clashes with  the radical group, activists said. Two villages left east of al-Balikh River under ISIS control. Its fall means all eastern...

Cholera has killed two people in the Kenyan capital this week and another five are receiving treatment in hospital, a Nairobi county public health official said on Friday. The diarrheal disease which is carried in food and water tainted by human faeces can kill within hours unless treated...

Syria's warring sides entered a final day of U.N.-backed talks on Friday with little sign of progress towards ending the conflict and with negotiations overshadowed by swelling tensions on the ground. The sixth round of talks in Geneva was the latest effort to bring a political solution to...