Syrian army has regained control of 70 per cent of Eastern Ghouta from militants.

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has fired former FBI deputy director, Andrew McCabe, leading figure in investigations of Hillary Clinton and alleged interference of Moscow in 2016 presidential election.

Signatories to Iran’s 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers have held a new round of their periodic meetings to review its implementation amid US threats to kill the multilateral accord.

Turkish businesspeople and their families in Britain under a popular visa program will no longer be eligible for a class of indefinite visa extensions, but will still be able to apply for multi-year extensions, the U.K. government announced Friday.

Israel has approved construction of a planned rail line that will link central Israel to the northern West Bank, local media reported Friday.

The Kremlin said on Friday that British accusations that President Vladimir Putin was involved in a nerve agent attack in England were shocking and unforgivable, TASS news agency reported.

Former South African President Jacob Zuma will be prosecuted for corruption relating to a 30 billion rand ($2.5 billion) arms deal in the late 1990s, chief state prosecutor Shaun Abrahams said on Friday.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has warned the United States against the "painful mistake" of pulling out of the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Marc 16 the alliance did not want a return to Cold War hostilities with Russia while expressing support for Britain’s strong stance on the nerve agent attack.

India’s state-run carrier Air India said March 16 it will fly over Saudi airspace to Tel Aviv, a move that ends a decades-long Saudi ban on the use of its airspace for flights to Israel.

The United Nations said March 16 there were “alarming reports” that Kurdish militants are blocking civilians from leaving the Syrian enclave of Afrin faced with a looming siege, and could be using them as “human shields.”

Belgium has retaken control of Saudi-run grand mosque over concerns that the center is used for extremist objectives.

Israeli occupation forces killed three Palestinian civilians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the first two weeks of March, a UN agency reported yesterday.

The Israeli Knesset is fast tracking a “nation-state bill” which opposition groups have denounced as “institutionalising the apartheid regime”. Knesset members approved the final draft of the bill defining Israel exclusively as a nation for Jews.

Britain, France and Germany have proposed fresh EU sanctions on Iran over its ballistic missiles and its role in Syria’s war, according to a confidential document, in a bid to persuade Washington to preserve the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran.

Russia has warned against renewal of 'anti-Russian hysteria' by Israel following Tel Aviv condemnation of a former spy poisoned in London.

Two women were arrested Thursday for breaking into an Islamic center in Arizona with three children and filming themselves vandalizing a mosque and making anti-Islamic remarks, police said.