Middle East

Sulaimania (Iraq): A top Kurdish counter-terrorism official said on Monday he was 99 per cent sure that IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was alive and located...

Amman: A Jordanian military court sentenced a soldier to life imprisonment with hard labour on Monday for killing three U.S. military trainers last year, a...

Occupied Jerusalem: Israeli forces killed a suspected Palestinian militant they were seeking to arrest after he shot at them in the occupied West Bank,...

Dubai: Iran on Saturday blamed what it called Donald Trump's "arbitrary and conflicting policies" for global security threats, rejecting the...

Geneva: U.N.-led Syria talks have a chance of making progress because demands for the overthrow of President Bashar Al Assad have receded, Russia's...

Benghazi (Libya): Benghazi's international airport officially reopened for commercial flights amid a heavy security presence on Saturday after a...

Hurghada (Egypt)/Berlin: German officials said on Saturday they had been left "dismayed and furious" by the stabbing of two German women at an...

Mosul (Iraq): Iraqi forces clashed with IS militants holding out in Mosul's Old City on Wednesday, more than 36 hours after Baghdad declared victory...