Middle East

Hassan Sham (Iraq): They wait for nightfall before attempting the perilous escape across bombed-out bridges and front lines between IS militants and Iraqi...

Rome: Eastern Libya's dominant military figure has no plans to resume talks with his UN-backed rival in the west, according to comments in an interview...

Occupied Jerusalem: Last March, Sergeant Elor Azaria, a 19-year-old Israeli army medic deployed to the occupied West Bank, shot and killed a Palestinian...

Occupied Ramallah: Foreign financial support to the Palestinian budget is running at about half the forecast level, the Palestinian prime minister told...

Occupied Jerusalem: Police are expected to question Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his official residence in occupied Jerusalem on Monday on suspicion...

Erbil: The declining effectiveness of IS attacks against Iraqi forces in eastern Mosul suggests the militants are starting to run out of resources with the...

Baghdad/Tikrit: An IS car bomb killed 24 people in a busy square in Baghdad's sprawling Sadr City district on Monday, and the militants cut a key road...

Paris: France on Monday called on Russia to stop military action in Syria and respect a fragile ceasefire brokered by Moscow and Turkey seeking to end...

Mosul/Hilla: IS militants attacked an Iraqi police checkpoint near the southern city of Najaf on Sunday, killing seven policemen as government forces in the...

Beirut: Syrian government warplanes carried out several air strikes and low-level clashes persisted in some areas on Sunday, but a Russian- and...