Middle East

Concarneau (France): An Iraqi government-led offensive to retake the northern Iraqi city of Mosul from IS militant group will start soon, France's...

Tunis: Tunisia's prime minister plans key talks with unions to hold down state sector wages and sees close to 3 per cent economic growth next year from...

Moscow: Russia is outraged by the threatening tone of the latest U.S. statement on Syria viewing it as tantamount to supporting terrorism, Russian Deputy...

Beirut: Russian or Syrian warplanes knocked a major Aleppo hospital out of service on Wednesday, hospital workers said, and ground forces intensified an...

Baghdad: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi said on Wednesday that Washington would send more US troops to help local forces in the battle to retake Mosul...

Amman: Jordan's King Abdullah II swore in a new government headed by Hani Mulki as prime minister for a second term on Wednesday, with a little-changed...

Occupied Jerusalem: Former Israeli president and elder statesman Shimon Peres, a joint winner of the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize, died in hospital on Wednesday...

Cairo: Egyptian authorities have arrested the owner and crew members of a boat that sank last week carrying hundreds of migrants, the security chief of...

Beirut: A bakery and major hospital were hit in bombardments of rebel-held eastern Aleppo early on Wednesday, residents said, as Syrian government forces...

Beirut: Syrian government forces and their allies attacked the opposition-held sector of Aleppo on several fronts on Tuesday, the biggest ground assault yet...