Middle East

Baghdad: An Iraqi policeman was killed and seven others wounded in clashes with protesters loyal to prominent cleric Moqtada Al Sadr who had gathered in...

United Nations: The United States has objected to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres' choice of former Palestinian prime minister Salam...

Ankara: Turkish forces have entered an Islamic State stronghold in northern Syria and have begun clearing it of jihadist militants, according to a spokesman...

Ankara/Beirut: Syrian rebels backed by the Turkish military have captured the outskirts of the IS-held city of Al Bab in northern Syria, the Turkish...

Beirut: Syrian government jets bombed a rebel-held district of Homs city in the west of the country on Wednesday, killing several people, rescue workers and...

Beirut: Amira Al Qassab and her family flitted from one Iraqi city to another fleeing IS, then waited three years in Beirut until they were cleared to move...

Amman: Syrian President Bashar Al Assad said his family did not "own" the country they have run for 46 years, saying he would step aside if the...

Amman: At least 30 people died in air strikes on the rebel-held Syrian city of Idlib on Tuesday, in some of the heaviest raids there in months, witnesses...

Dubai: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed Donald Trump's warning to Iran to stop its missile tests, saying the new US president had shown the "real...

Occupied Jerusalem: Israel passed a law on Monday retroactively legalising about 4,000 settler homes built on privately owned Palestinian land in the...