Middle East

Vienna: Major powers including the United States are ready to consider demands from Libya's new unity government for exemptions from a United Nations...

Amman: Algeria will supply oil and other energy products to Jordan for the first time under a memorandum of understanding signed on Monday, as the OPEC...

Occupied Jerusalem: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told France's Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault on Sunday that Israel remained opposed to a...

Beirut: Syrian government forces retook a hospital in Deir Al Zor after IS attacked it on Saturday following a dawn offensive by the militants on the...

Cairo: An Egyptian court sentenced 152 protesters on Saturday to between two and five years in prison each after they demonstrated against a decision to...

Baghdad: Iraqi authorities have shut the offices of two television channels and ordered a satirical show off air, tightening control over the media as...

Baghdad: An IS attack on a state-run gas plant in Baghdad's northern outskirts on Sunday killed at least 11 people, including policemen, and forced two...

Beirut: IS attacked a hospital in Deir Al Zor on Saturday and seized territory on the edge of the besieged eastern Syrian city still partly controlled by...

Baghdad: A political crisis in Iraq is hampering the fight against IS, Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi said on Saturday after some of the bloodiest attacks...

Beirut: Lebanon's Hezbollah said on Saturday its top military commander Mustafa Badreddine was killed in Syria by artillery shells fired by insurgents...