Middle East

Dubai: Iran has thwarted several planned bombings in Tehran and other cities, state news agency quoted the intelligence ministry as saying on Monday, in...

Dubai: Iran has reached a deal to buy 100 planes from US planemaker Boeing, and the two sides are awaiting approval by US Treasury authorities, the head of...

Baghdad: Iraqi government-run camps struggled on Sunday to shelter people fleeing Falluja, as the military battled IS militants in the city's northern...

Cairo: Egypt's former president Mohamed Mursi was handed another life sentence on Saturday, after a court found him guilty of espionage and leaking...

Beirut: At least seven people died in rebel shelling of a neighbourhood of the Syrian city of Aleppo held by the Kurdish YPG militia at dawn on Saturday, a...

Tikrit/Falluja (Iraq): Iraqi forces opened a second front on Saturday in preparation for an assault on the IS stronghold of Mosul, a day after government...

Beirut: At least seven people died in rebel shelling of a neighbourhood of the Syrian city of Aleppo held by the Kurdish YPG militia at dawn on Saturday, a...

Washington: Russia launched a second air strike on US-backed Syrian fighters battling IS, even after the US military used emergency channels to ask Moscow...

Cairo: A second flight recorder has been retrieved from the crashed EgyptAir flight MS804, containing data from aircraft systems which could shed light on...

Falluja: Iraqi forces on Friday entered the centre of Falluja, the Iraqi city longest held by IS, nearly four weeks after the start of a US-backed offensive...