Middle East
Warring sides reach humanitarian agreement on key Yemen town
Yemen’s warring parties agreed Thursday to create humanitarian corridors in the key port city of Hodeida, which remains the main entry point ...Airstrikes, shelling kill 16 in Syria’s rebel-held areas
Airstrikes and artillery shelling killed at least 16 civilians — including six members of the same family — amid intensified violence in ...Smog forces schools shut in Iran
Air pollution forced schools to close on Sunday in parts of Iran including Tehran, state media reported, as the capital lay under ...Peace deal for Yemen’s south stumbles as deadline expires
The Yemeni government and southern separatists have failed to meet a deadline to establish a power-sharing government, an ominous sign for hopes ...Airstrikes in northwest Syria kill at least 18 people
Airstrikes on areas in the last major rebel stronghold in northwest Syria killed at least 18 people, including women and children, and ...Iran unveils budget of ‘resistance’ against US sanctions
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday presented to parliament what he called a “budget of resistance” against crippling sanctions imposed by arch-enemy ...Iranian and American freed in apparent prisoner swap
An Iranian held in the US and an American held in Iran have been freed, the two sides said Saturday, in an ...Iran nuclear deal parties meet as accord nears collapse
The remaining signatories to the faltering 2015 Iran nuclear deal will meet in Vienna on Friday with the survival of the landmark ...Pro-paramilitary demonstrators flood Iraqi protest camp
Mass rallies have rocked the capital and Shiite-majority south since early October, first denouncing government graft and a lack of jobs before ...Khamenei orders Iran unrest victims treated as ‘martyrs’
Iran has given no official figures for the number of people killed during last month’s protests but it has rejected high death ...












