Middle East

Beirut: Syria's military declared a week-long ceasefire over on Monday and vowed to continue fighting, even as officials from the United States and...

Tehran: Iran has reduced the number of airplanes it plans to buy from Airbus by six amid delays in US regulatory approvals, and may knock one plane off a...

Occupied Jerusalem: Israeli forces killed two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Monday, police said, and two Israeli police officers were stabbed in...

Moscow/Beirut: Moscow stepped up its war of words with Washington on Sunday, saying air strikes by a US-led coalition on the Syrian army threatened the...

Tehran: Iran urged the United States on Sunday to remove remaining obstacles to it buying passenger planes following the lifting of international sanctions...

Occupied Jerusalem: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu deflected criticism of the record $38 billion defence package Israel will receive from the US over the...

BEIRUT: At least 80 Syrian soldiers were killed in a US-led coalition air strike at an army position near Deir Al Zor airport on Saturday, the Syrian...

PARIS/CAIRO: French investigators who found trace levels of the explosive material TNT on debris of an EgyptAir plane that crashed in May were prevented...

Beirut/Moscow: Russia and Syrian rebels cast doubt over the prospects for an increasingly shaky five-day-old ceasefire on Saturday, with Moscow saying the...

Beirut/Cilvegozu (Turkey): The United States and Russia said on Friday they wanted to extend the four-day-old ceasefire in Syria they have co-sponsored,...