A British man has been arrested and detained in the United Arab Emirates after he wore a Qatar football team shirt during a match at the AFC Asian Cup, according to a UK media report.

The US Senate has passed legislation defining United States security policy in the Middle East, introducing a measure that would allow state and local governments to sanction those who support boycotts, divesture and sanctions against Israel.

The head of the UN mission in Yemen launched talks between Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement and forces loyal to fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi met in Jordan Tuesday for talks on implementing a stalled prisoner exchange agreed upon in December.

The United Nations Special Envoy for the Syrian Affair Geir Pedersen met and conferred with Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Tehran on Tuesday evening.

A police officer was killed and an oil tanker was detonated in an armed conflict in Darreh Garm, Khorramabad on Wednesday.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a message condemned the US for supporting dictators and destroying the region.

Footage of security officers dragging a pregnant black woman off a Stockholm subway train and pinning her to a bench has caused an outcry in Sweden, raising questions about the treatment of minorities in a country often seen as a beacon of tolerance.

Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian and wounded another in the occupied West Bank on Monday, medical officials said.

Lawsuit says power outage caused 'inhumane' conditions for inmates at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.

The British army allowed its soldiers to shoot unarmed civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, a report by the London-based Middle East Eye news website has revealed.