Middle East

London: The 17-nation group backing Syria peace talks will meet next week, US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday, a day after he and his Russian...

London: Companies should not use the United States as an excuse for not doing business with Iran, US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday ahead of...

Istanbul: Long-running efforts to fully restore Israeli-Turkish relations have made good progress but need a few more rounds of negotiations, though a...

Washington: An air strike by a US-led coalition killed a senior IS militant in Iraq last week, a Pentagon spokesman said on Monday. The strike on May 6...

Beirut: A list backed by mainstream Lebanese parties has won Beirut municipality elections, its leader said early on Monday, seeing off a challenge by an...

Beirut/Paris: Syrian government forces and their allies fought insurgents near Aleppo on Monday and jets carried out raids around a nearby town seized by...

Arbil/Baghdad: Iraqi forces retook a northern village from IS on Monday, supported by artillery and air strikes from a US-led coalition, as they try to...

Dubai: Iran's minister of defence denied on Monday that the Revolutionary Guards had recently tested a medium-range ballistic missile but reiterated...

Cairo: Gunmen killed eight plainclothes police on the southern outskirts of Cairo overnight, the Egyptian interior ministry said, in an assault claimed by...

Amman: Syrian warplanes attacked militants near the northern city of Aleppo on Sunday, both sides said, as the government tried to push back a insurgent...