Middle East news

The UN Security Council has threatened to impose sanctions on Sudan and South Sudan if the two nations fail to halt…

Yemen will ask donors for about $10 billion in urgent aid at a “Friends of Yemen” meeting to be held in the Saudi…

Thousands of people have held anti-government rallies in several cities across Morocco to demand deeper reforms and…

Egypt must take control of the rising unrest which is sweeping through the Sinai Peninsula if it wants to preserve…

A parliamentary committee in Turkey is due to start work on the country's first fully civilian constitution. The…

Sudan has informed Moscow of its readiness to start negotiations with South Sudan to settle their conflict, Russian…

Israel began building a wall on Monday along a 1-km (0.6 mile) -stretch of its border with Lebanon. An Israeli…

A number of people have been killed in blasts in the north-western Syrian city of Idlib, activists and state TV…

Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal will meet the Egyptian foreign minister and the Arab League Secretary General on Sunday…

Saudi officials have said they have no suspicions about Osama Bin Laden's widows and children, who arrived in the…