The UN envoy to Yemen has urged the country's government and Iran-backed Houthis to revive efforts to agree a ceasefire deal and end the seven-year conflict there. This plea follows failed efforts to extend a six-month truce that expired on Sunday. “Any small incident could spark   Details..>>

The expiry of a six-month ceasefire in Yemen has pushed the country back into conflict. Charities have criticised the failure to extend the ceasefire beyond Sunday. The truce was first agreed upon in April. “The end of the truce is terrible news for the people of Yemen. Millions will n   Details..>>

A six-month truce in Yemen that expired Sunday had provided a rare respite for the war-ravaged country, but failed attempts to extend it have stoked fears of fresh conflict. Fighting between the Iran-backed Houthis and pro-government forces began in 2014 and escalated the following year when a   Details..>>

  UN Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg announced on Sunday that no agreement has been reached to renew the expired truce between the Yemeni warring parties. "The UN Special Envoy regrets that an agreement has not been reached today, as an extended and expanded truce would provide additio   Details..>>

An attack by armed separatists on a police station in a southeastern city killed 19 people, including four members of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard, Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency reported Saturday. The assailants in Friday’s attack hid among worshippers near a   Details..>>

Iran’s intelligence ministry says it has arrested nine foreigners over recent anti-hijab protests sweeping the country. In a statement carried by the state-run news agency IRNA, the ministry said Friday that those arrested included citizens of Germany, Poland, Italy, France, the Netherla   Details..>>

The United Nations, through its special envoy to Yemen Hans Grundberg, stepped up diplomatic efforts to renew the existing truce between Yemen's warring parties to prevent any resumption of the country's years-long military conflict. The UN-brokered truce between the Yemeni government and the   Details..>>

 Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that conflicts in countries of the former USSR, including Ukraine, are the result of the collapse of the Soviet Union. “It is enough to look at what is happening now between Russia and Ukraine, and at what is happening on the borders o   Details..>>

The Lebanese parliament failed to elect a new head of state on Thursday to replace President Michel Aoun when his term ends on Oct. 31, and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said he would call another session when consensus emerged on a candidate. The bulk of votes cast by lawmakers at Thursday&r   Details..>>

Four Palestinians were killed and dozens injured, some seriously, during an Israeli military raid early on Wednesday in the Jenin refugee camp in in the occupied West Bank. Israeli forces said they shot dead two Palestinians suspected of involvement in recent gun attacks. Two more were killed and   Details..>>