Lebanon's parliament postponed its session on Tuesday after hundreds of anti-government protesters blocked all roads leading to the assembly in central Beirut, preventing lawmakers from reaching the area.

Protesters have blocked the entrance to Iraq's Khor al-Zubair commodities port near Basra, preventing trucks from entering, port officials told Reuters on Tuesday

Three members of the Iranian security forces have been stabbed to death by "rioters" near Tehran, the ISNA and Fars news agencies reported late Monday.

Lebanon's parliament, besieged by angry protesters, Tuesday for a second time postponed a session that had been due to discuss draft laws which critics charge would let corrupt politicians off the hook.

At least 10 workers were killed and 35 wounded in an air strike that hit a biscuit factory in Libya yesterday in what a senior UN official said was a possible war crime.

Iran said it still faced riots even though the situation was “calmer” yesterday after days of violent protests sparked by a shock decision to hike petrol prices in the sanctions-hit country.

Protesters have once again blocked the entrance to Iraq's Umm Qasr commodities port near Basra, preventing employees and tankers from entering and bringing operations down

Iraqis flooded the streets of the capital and southern cities yesterday in a general strike that bolstered the weeks-long movement demanding a government overhaul.

Iraqis flooded the streets of the capital and southern cities yesterday in a general strike that bolstered the weeks-long movement demanding a government overhaul.

The eyes of truth will never be blinded,” protesters’ placards read, as Palestinian journalists wore eye patches yesterday to decry the wounding of a colleague in the occupied West Bank.

Air strikes by Syrian regime ally Russia on Sunday killed nine civilians in the jihadist-run enclave of Idlib in the northwest of the country, a war monitor said.

Iraqis flooded the streets of the capital and southern cities on Sunday in a general strike that bolstered the weeks-long movement demanding a government overhaul.