Two oil tankers have been stopped from leaving a rebel-held port in war-torn Yemen over a commercial dispute, the ships' Singapore-based owner said Friday.

Turkish authorities detained four people in an investigation into a potential threat against British and German diplomatic missions but found no links between the suspects and any terrorist groups, the state-run Anadolu Agency said on Friday.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon took a swipe yesterday at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying that it was “unacceptable and outrageous” to claim that opposition to settlements was tantamount to ethnic cleansing.

Russia and a war monitor said the Syrian army had begun to withdraw from a road into Aleppo yesterday, a prerequisite for pressing ahead with international peacemaking efforts as the government and rebels accused each other of violating a truce.

Forces allied to Yemen's Houthi group attacked across the border into Saudi Arabia's southern Jizan province on Thursday, with both sides claiming victory in the skirmish and giving conflicting accounts of of casualties.

A planned subsea natural gas pipeline between Iran and Oman is expected to have a higher estimated cost after the two countries had to change the project's route ...

At least 12 rebels and three pro-government fighters were killed in fierce battles in southwestern Yemen yesterday, military sources said.

Two convoys of aid for the Syrian city of Aleppo were waiting in no-man’s land yesterday after crossing the Turkish border, held up by security fears and disagreements between combatants on the third day of a ceasefire.

A fire broke out yesterday at Iran’s Mobin Petrochemical refinery complex in southern port of Assaluyeh, leaving four people injured, state media reported, the latest in a string of blazes in the region.

An Austrian court on Wednesday sentenced a Syrian man to life in jail for murdering his wife in his homeland in 2011, after Vienna refused to extradite him because of the country's civil war.

Two convoys of aid for the Syrian city of Aleppo were waiting in no-man's land on Wednesday after crossing the Turkish border, as disagreements between warring sides and security fears held up deliveries on the third day of a ceasefire.

An Israeli court on Wednesday gave a life sentence to the Palestinian killer of an off-duty Israeli soldier and ordered that he serve a minimum of 40 years behind bars.