A soccer governing body that both countries have helped bankroll gave them extra rest and home-field advantage to set up ...

Iraq will hold parliamentary elections on November 11, with analysts saying Iran will be watching closely as it hopes to retain influence over its neighbour after losing regional leverage during the ...

The four-day event will showcase 25 feature-length and short-form documentaries that shine new narrative light on urgent ...

The two nations secured places after soccer’s governing body in Asia — a recipient of lavish funding from the two Persian Gulf states — changed qualification rules.

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Only one horror film has ever terrorised me so completely that I didn’t sleep at all the night after watching it. It’s at number 37 on the top 50 below, which is an attempt to sort almost 130 years of ...

British and Iranian athletes won the 42k race at the 12th Erbil International Marathon, while Kurdish runners, including ...

Trust in the press is at a record low, with only a quarter of Americans aged eighteen to twenty-nine expressing confidence in media organizations. Jobs in journalism, meanwhile, are declining faster ...

Lebanon’s neutrality could be achieved under UN sponsorship or through a defense pact with the U.S. What is needed, he said, ...

Iraq's Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein has praised a Kurdish separatist group's decision to withdraw fighters from northern ...

Iraq has pledged to bring all weapons under the control of the state, but that will not work so long as there is a U.S.-led ...

Syrian soldiers will be allowed to use Turkish military barracks for training meant to boost Syria's military capabilities, ...