Middle East

Beirut: Syrian rebels including hadrliners counter-attacked the army and its allies on Friday aiming to break a weeks-long siege on eastern Aleppo,...

Beirut: Air strikes by Syrian or Russian warplanes killed at least 26 people, most of them schoolchildren, in a village in Syria's rebel-held Idlib...

Qayyara/Baghdad: IS fighters on Wednesday kept up their fierce defence of the southern approaches to Mosul, which has held up Iraqi troops on the southern...

Ankara/Beirut: Turkey said on Wednesday it will press its military offensive in Syria until IS is driven from the town of Al Bab, despite a warning from...

Doha: Yemeni army units backed by an Arab coalition attacked positions held by Houthis in a strategic province east of the capital on Wednesday, a day after...

Occupied Jerusalem: Prosecutors in Israel on Wednesday charged 13 people with inciting violence and terrorism after a wedding video showed far-right Jews...

Cairo: Visitors to a bookshop in Cairo are being invited into a dark, soundproof room to scream at the top of their lungs in an effort to relieve their...

East of Mosul/Baghdad: An elite unit of the Iraqi army paused its week-long advance on Mosul as it approached the city's eastern edge on Tuesday,...

Moscow/Beirut: Russia said on Tuesday Russian and Syrian military planes had not launched air strikes on Aleppo since Moscow said it was suspending bombing...

Cairo: Egypt has seized 9,000 tonnes of sugar in recent raids on factories and warehouses, the prime minister said on Monday, describing the move as...