On a cloudy morning in early spring, at the United Nations headquarters in New York, Pramila Patten sat down to deliver her findings on sexual violence during...

A gunman fired shots at the American embassy in Beirut early on Wednesday, drawing retaliation from Lebanese soldiers and security guards. The Lebanese army...

The most highly decorated Royal Marine to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan has been held in Dubai for seven months accused of spying, The Times can reveal. The...

Twenty years ago this week, Frank Gardner was relaxing by the pool at the InterContinental hotel in Riyadh with his cameraman, Simon Cumbers. They had spent...

The leader of Hamas and deputy leader of Hezbollah were among mourners at the funeral of President Raisi of Iran, who died with seven others in a helicopter...

At about midnight the dance floor starts to fill, with a motley crowd of revellers shuffling to house music. There’s a young man in skinny trousers and...

Thousands of Iranians joined a funeral procession for Ebrahim Raisi on Tuesday, days after the president was killed in a helicopter crash alongside his...

With confirmation of the death of President Raisi of Iran after Sunday’s helicopter crash, the task of managing the country now falls to Mohammad Mokhber, an...

Ebrahim Raisi, the Iranian president, has been killed along with his foreign minister after a helicopter crash on Sunday. State media confirmed that there...

President Raisi of Iran has been confirmed dead after his helicopter crashed in the forests of Iran’s East Azerbaijan province. In the not-too-distant past,...