Middle East

Bashiqa (Iraq): Abbas Ali wept as his wife slowly pushed him in his wheelchair out of their village in northern Iraq, a risky escape along a route where IS...

Amman: The Syrian army and its allies seized a strategic area in the besieged rebel-held eastern Ghouta area of Damascus, tightening their grip on the...

London/Sirte (Libya): Western and some Middle Eastern powers expressed support on Monday for Libya's UN-brokered unity government and Prime Minister...

East of Mosul/Baghdad: Advancing Iraq troops broke through IS defence lines in an eastern suburb of Mosul on Monday, taking the battle for the insurgent...

Beirut: The Lebanese parliament elected former army commander Michel Aoun as president on Monday, ending a 29-month presidential vacuum. Saad Al Hariri is...

South of Mosul: Iraqi troops and security forces edged closer to Mosul on two southern fronts on Sunday but a leader of the militias newly participating in...

Amman/Beirut: Syrian rebels opened a new front in Aleppo as fighting spread on the third day of a major insurgent counter-attack to break the...

Tripoli: When the doors of a Tripoli bank open, hundreds of frantic customers surge forward, desperate for money they have been waiting weeks or months to...

Al Shura/Baghdad: Iraqi militias said on Saturday they had launched an offensive towards the west of Mosul, an operation that would tighten the noose around...

Geneva/Baghdad: IS forces in Iraq have abducted tens of thousands of men, women and children from areas around Mosul and are using them as "human...