(VOVworld) - Turkey summoned Iran's ambassador on Thursday to demand a halt to Iranian media reports linking the execution of Shiite cleric Nirm al-Nirm by Saudi Arabia with last...
(VOVworld) – Relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia were strained after Saudi Arabia executed Shiite cleric Nirm al-Nirm and 46 others on terrorism charges
(VOVworld) – The Islamic State group has lost an estimated 40 percent of the territory it once held in Iraq and 20 percent in Syria, the U.S.-led coalition fighting...
(VOVworld) - The UN Security Council has strongly condemned an attack on the Saudi embassy in Tehran by protesters angered by the execution of a Shia cleric
(VOVworld) – Saudi Arabia’s mass execution of 47 people, including Shiite religious leader Nimr al-Nimr, on terrorism charges is facing strong international criticism and has ignited a wave of protests among...
(VOVworld) - The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph Dunford is visiting Germany to reassure Russia’s neighbors they can count on the US
(VOVworld) - Oil prices rose in Asia on Monday after crude producer Saudi Arabia cut diplomatic ties with Iran following a row over the Saudi execution of a Shiite preacher
(VOVworld) – The Middle East continued to be a world hotspot in 2015. It has become a fierce battlefield, creating the worst migrant crisis in world history and igniting a global...
(VOVworld) - The Lebanese parliament failed to elect a president for the country for the 33rd time because the fractions could not agree on the candidate
(VOVworld) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made a phone call with his Iraqi counterpart Ibrahim al-Jaafari on Saturday to discuss Turkey deploying troops in Iraq despite of Iraq’s...
(VOVworld) – Many Turkish soldiers illegally entered Iraq on December 4 to train Kurdish militias fighting IS. This has harmed relations between Iraq and Turkey and created a new security challenge...
(VOVworld)- Turkey has deployed troops to the Iraq city of Mosul. Earlier, the US announced a plan to triple US troops in Iraq and deploy a "specialized expeditionary targeting force" to...
(VOVworld) – Up to 24 people were killed and 61 others wounded on Saturday in two suicide car bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad
(VOVworld) – On Sunday, Shiite Houthi rebels in Yemen released six foreigners who had been held hostage for the last six months
(VOVworld) - Yemen's Prime Minister Khaled Bahah returned to the southern port city of Aden on Wednesday as anti-Houthi forces push toward the capital Sanaa
(VOVworld) – The Islamic State abducted 127 children in Mosul City, Iraq, to train them to become jihadists
(VOVworld) – Scores of people were killed and wounded in suicide bombings and clashes between the Iraqi soldiers and IS militants in Anbar province on Saturday. A suicide bomber blew himself up in...
(VOVworld) - At least 23 Iraqi soldiers and militia have been killed in an attack by Islamic State militants in Anbar province, according to police and military officials
(VOVworld) – At least 58 people were killed and more than 100 were injured in 2 bombings in Diyala province, eastern Iraq. The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attacks
(VOVworld) - Pro-government forces in Yemen recaptured Zinjibar, the capital of Abyan province, from troops loyal to ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh and the Houthi rebels