The decision came as US President Donald Trump ramps up military presence in the Middle East as tensions mount with Iran.

The BBC hears harrowing accounts of assaults appearing to target the sect of former President Assad.

The group of 34 women and children with family links to Islamic State group have been held in the Roj camp for nearly seven ...

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Hillary Clinton, the former US secretary of state, and her husband, the former president Bill Clinton, have agreed to testify ...

Ifatwa ry’uyu mugabo ryahuriranye n’umunsi w’isabukuru ye y’imyaka 66, kandi rije nyuma y’uko polisi ivuze ko yarimo ikora ...

The person temporarily banned is among a group of 34 who this week attempted to leave the camp for Australia.

In March 2007, Jackson pledged his support for Barack Obama's campaign to become the first African American in the White ...

A spokesperson for the Ministry of Interior, Nour al-Din al-Baba, stated that the disappearances ranged from “voluntary elopement with a romantic partner” to “temporary absence at friends’ or ...

The US president remembered Jackson, who marched with Martin Luther King Jr in the 1960s, as a good man with "lots of personality, grit and street smarts".

Amid the military buildup, Trump's broader objectives in Iran remain something of a mystery.

The 21-year-old could be jailed for up to 20 years over a plot to attack the US singer's concert in 2024.