Iran's supreme leader dismissed the prospect of new negotiations with the West on Tuesday, even as the Tehran government spoke optimistically about the return of foreign companies in "the absence of Trump" and his sanctions. President-elect Joe Biden's victory has raised the possibility...

A close friend of Jamal Khashoggi told a Turkish court on Tuesday that the slain Saudi journalist felt threatened by people close to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The main court in Istanbul held a second hearing in the trial in absentia of 26 Saudi suspects in the Washington Post...

The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis in Yemen said it had destroyed five mines laid by the Iran-aligned group in the Red Sea, Saudi state TV reported on Tuesday. The mines are of the Iranian-made 'Sadaf' type, the channel said, adding that the coalition had destroyed a total of...

A car bomb on Tuesday killed five people, mostly local police, on the outskirts of the Turkish-controlled town of Al-Bab in northern Syria, a war monitor said. The explosion, which targeted a police station, killed a police chief from another district, two officers and two civilians, the...