Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz said on Wednesday his government was determined to confront corruption with "justice and decisiveness", signalling continued support for a crackdown on sleaze involving mass arrests of top Saudis including royals. In a televised speech to the...

Human rights group Amnesty International said Tuesday that Iran's courts had "run roughshod over the rule of law" by confirming the death sentence of an academic accused of espionage during nuclear talks with world powers. Lawyers for Ahmadreza Djalali, an emergency medicine specialist...

Russia has suspended its diplomatic presence in Yemen and all its staff have left the country due to the situation in the capital Sanaa, the RIA news agency cited Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova as saying Tuesday. The Russian ambassador to Yemen and some diplomatic...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The local Council in Deir Ezzor suspended its operations on Monday  for 20 days in protest against the continued neglect of the suffering of the displaced people in the province, the opposition-run council said in statement.  The Council said various relief...