Middle East
Iran sends high-level negotiators to Geneva nuclear talks
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has dispatched his brother and atomic chief to Geneva to try to overcome hurdles in high-profile nuclear talks ...Former Yemen president flees capital after release from house arrest
Yemen\'s former president Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi escaped his official residence after weeks of house arrest by the Houthi militia on Saturday and ...Massive fire in Dubai skyscraper
Hundreds of panicked residents fled one of the tallest towers in Dubai early Saturday as a huge fire engulfed the skyscraper, causing ...Yemen parties agree on transitional council
Yemen\'s feuding parties have agreed on a "people\'s transitional council" to help govern the country and guide it out of a political ...Qatar recalls ambassador from Egypt over Libya strikes
Qatar has recalled its ambassador to Egypt, the state news agency QNA said late on Wednesday, in a dispute over Egyptian air ...Libya and Egypt ask UN to lift arms embargo to fight Islamic State
Libya and Egypt asked the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday to lift an arms embargo on Libya, impose a naval blockade ...Syria willing to halt Aleppo airstrikes for six weeks
The Syrian government is willing to suspend its aerial bombardment and artillery shelling of the northern city of Aleppo so that a ...Egypt bombs Islamic State targets in Libya after 21 Egyptians beheaded
Egypt\'s air force bombed Islamic State targets inside Libya on Monday, a day after the group released a video showed the beheading ...35 IS jihadists killed in clashes with Syria Kurds
At least 35 Islamic State jihadists were killed on Sunday in clashes with Syrian Kurdish fighters around the flashpoint town of Kobane, ...Video purports to show Islamic State militants in Libya beheading Christian hostages
A video purporting to show the mass beheading of Coptic Christian hostages was released Sunday by militants in Libya affiliated with the ...




