Middle East

By Liz Lee and Ethan Wang BEIJING, May 25 (Reuters) – President Xi Jinping hailed China’s “unbreakable” friendship with Pakistan

Being in Mecca has been nothing short of blissful for Hassan Qadiri, where participating in the festivities of the hajj

Born to landless Indian farmers, Sunil Pooniya thought a job at sea would be his ticket out of poverty, instead

As diplomacy intensifies on ending the Iran war, top US diplomat Marco Rubio was spending Monday not in negotiations but

(Corrects name of political analyst in seventh paragraph) By Xinghui Kok and Greg Torode SINGAPORE/HONG KONG, May 25 (Reuters) –

By Saad Sayeed and Mubasher Bukhari CHAKWAL, Pakistan, May 25 (Reuters) – In a cluster of villages in Pakistan’s largely

To avoid the punishing sun, Inas Gamal abandoned her ambitious plan of spending the days ahead of the hajj praying

Israeli strikes pounded south and east Lebanon Sunday despite a ceasefire as Hezbollah’s chief expressed hope for an agreement between

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused Hezbollah in a statement Sunday of trying to plunge Lebanon “back into chaos.”

May 24 (Reuters) – The foreign ministers of the Group of Eight Arab-Islamic states on Sunday strongly condemned the actions