Middle East

Baghdad: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi said on Tuesday it would take three months to rout IS, as US-backed forces battle to dislodge the militants...

Beirut: One of IS's top commanders in Syria was probably killed in combat as the militants sought to stave off an advance by US-backed Syrian forces...

Occupied Jerusalem: Benjamin Netanyahu has been unrelenting in his criticism of the Obama administration over what he condemned as its "shameful"...

Dubai: Iran said on Sunday it had negotiated to pay only about half the announced price for 80 new Boeing airliners in an order that the American planemaker...

Occupied Jerusalem: Israel summoned the ambassadors of 10 nations to occupied Jerusalem to reprimand them on Sunday and had more harsh words for the Obama...

Cairo: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi said on Saturday that the military's economic activity accounted for no more than 2 per cent of the...

Ankara: Syrian rebels backed by Turkish warplanes killed 68 IS militants in northern Syria overnight, the Turkish military said on Saturday, as intense...

Bartella (Iraq): Several hundred Iraqi Christians flocked on Saturday to a northern town recently retaken from IS, celebrating Christmas for the first time...

Aleppo: Syrian rebels shelled Aleppo and air strikes resumed around the city on Friday as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his allies said the...

Ankara: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday there is "no doubt" that the assassin who gunned down the Russian ambassador in Ankara...