Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Armenia in recent days to protest the rule of Serzh Sarkisian who was elected by the country's parliament as the next prime minister. The fact he has already served as president is making people more angry. Opposition supporters staged protests in the Armenian capital Yerevan.

A suicide bomb attack at a voter registration centre in the Afghan capital of Kabul has killed at least 57 people, officials say. The dead include 21 women and five children, killed when the blast hit the queue outside. A further 119 people were injured. ISIS claimed responsibility for the bombing in a statement distributed through Telegram. It said "our martyrdom brother" targeted a group of Shiites outside the voter registration center in the Dashte Barchi neighborhood in west Kabul.

The Israeli army appears to be using new weapons-- including exploding bullets and mysterious gases--against Palestinian protesters on the Gaza Strip’s eastern border. Israeli army gunfire killed a 15-year-old boy and two young men, aged 24 and 25, in northern Gaza, rescue workers said, and a 29-year-old Palestinian was shot dead in the south of the coastal enclave, as thousands protested along the border with Israel in a fourth straight Friday of mass demonstrations and clashes. Palestinianian protester runs for cover amidst the fumes from burning tires during clashes with ...

Iran’s Army Day celebrated 18 April each year to show the country’s prowess in military armaments. This year is no different for Iran seeks to display her military technology in face of rivals such as Saudi Arabia and to show her presence in the region, foremost in Syria and in the backing of different Shiite militias in Lebanon, Iraq and backing the Houthis in Yemen. In attendance was Iranian president Hassan Rohani and Armed Forces Chief of Staff Mohammad Hussein Baqri. Newest technological equipments are on display such as the ...

On Saturday, the USA, UK and France launched strikes against Chemical compounds inside Syria. The strike and the rhetoric around it represent a new phase of the Syrian War- a war that only six months ago looked like it was beginning to wind down. As the standoff between Western powers and Russia seems to deepen, we look at the military assets involved in and around the Mediterranean.

Hundreds of Iraqi citizens protested Sunday, April 15, 2018 in the Tahir region in central Baghdad against the airstrikes launched by U.S. Britain and France against Syria. Protesters raised Iraqi and Syrian flag in solidarity, chanting slogans against the U.S. and its allies. Saad al-Hadithi, spokesperson for the Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi, was quoted last week by Iraqi.News.com as saying Iraqi troops at the northern borders of Iraq have been on high alert to confront any attacks that could come from Syria.

Al-Sadd's Xavier Hernandez (C) dribbles the ball as Persepolis' Ahmad Noorollahi (R) defends during the AFC Champions League match between al-Sadd and Persepolis at the Azadi Stadium in Tehran on April 16, 2018. ATTA KENARE / AFP

The usual images on the Palestine-Israeli conflict involve people, activists, Israeli soldiers and politicians in different states of tumult and violence. The following pictures show a different more jovial, happy sight of Palestinians, as a fun people, who love life, are sports-conscious, and have deep aspirations. Their presence here are at the sight of pitched up tents in southern Gaza, near the border with Israel, to demonstrate the right of Palestinian refugees to return to the villages and towns they were expelled from when Israel was established in 1948. The ...

Hundreds of protesters gathered at Whitehall opposite Downing Street in London to protest in support of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. This was after Israeli troops killed nine during the latest border clashes. Thousands of protesters approached the border fence around Gaza for a second Friday in a row, burning tyres and hurling stones at Israeli forces, who responded with tear gas and live ammunition. In addition to the nine dead, at least 491 were wounded by Israeli gunfire, the health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza enclave said. Among those ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani met on April 4 in Ankara for their second three-way summit that discussed reaching a ceasefire across Syria and supporting a political resolution of the crisis in the war-torn country. Russia, Turkey and Iran are all involved in the Syria crisis and have sponsored a series of peace talks in the Kazakh capital, Astana. The three leaders held the first tripartite summit in Sochi last November as the guarantor countries of the Astana process, for which they ...

Palestinians commemorate Land Day and "The Great Return March" by holding demonstrations and protests along the Gaza strip The exceptional protest is dubbed "The Great March of Return" and has the backing of the Gaza Strip's Islamist rulers Hamas. Gazans converged on the strip border for the Return Marches with Israel. The rallies in the Gaza Strip also coincide with Land Day, which marks the killing of six Arab Israelis on 30 March, 1976 demonstrations against Israeli confiscations of Arab land. Clashes with the Israeli police took place in the ...