The eight stadiums — all within a 30-mile radius of Doha — are now largely complete. The 2022 World Cup has been preserved after fending off hostility from neighbors, corruption investigations and concerns about worker abuses. Now a clock on the Corniche waterfront in the Qatari capital will...

The US is working to keep its forces in Iraq and Syria to help fight Daesh, Al-Arabiya TV reported on Friday citing the Pentagon. It further said that it will keep tens of thousands of soldiers in military bases in the Middle East. On Iran, the Pentagon said there was no military...

An American journalist jailed for six months by Myanmar's military rulers said after his shock release that he battled to stay sane and feared his ordeal would not end, while insisting he should never have been detained. Danny Fenster -- handed an 11-year sentence last week for incitement,...

When Kamaran Mohammed travelled with his wife and three children to the Belarus capital Minsk last month from their home in northern Iraq, they went as tourists. They were among thousands of people provided with tourist visas in recent months with the help of travel agencies in the Middle...