An Irish flight attendant charged with attempting suicide in Dubai after allegedly being beaten in a domestic attack will be allowed to fly home. Simon...

Iran’s new president has paid tribute to the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, playing down suggestions that the reformist platform on which...

The election of a former heart surgeon as Iran’s new president is seen as comically fitting among critics of the hardline regime in Tehran. They joke that he...

An Israeli soldier was killed after ­Hezbollah launched rockets and a swarm of drones across the Lebanon-Israel border in retaliation for the targeted...

Syrian refugees in Turkey are bracing for more unrest after attacks on their homes and businesses during violent nationalist protests in cities across the...

Iran recorded its lowest election turnout when voters snubbed Ayotollah Khamenei’s pleas for “maximum participation” in the presidential poll on Friday. The...

Iranians are being urged to turn out in large numbers to elect a new president on Friday, in a vote that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has depicted as a referendum...

More than 1,300 pilgrims died in Mecca last week as they performed the haj in scorching heat, Saudi Arabia has said. Temperatures in Mecca, where almost two...

Almost two years on from a long-awaited honeymoon that ended in tragedy with his wife being “catapulted” to her death from a jet ski in the UAE, Joseph Danso...

A death sentence imposed on a prominent Iranian rapper who supported protests against the regime has been overturned by the country’s supreme court, his...