Middle East

Tikrit/Falluja (Iraq): Iraqi forces opened a second front on Saturday in preparation for an assault on the IS stronghold of Mosul, a day after government...

Beirut: At least seven people died in rebel shelling of a neighbourhood of the Syrian city of Aleppo held by the Kurdish YPG militia at dawn on Saturday, a...

Washington: Russia launched a second air strike on US-backed Syrian fighters battling IS, even after the US military used emergency channels to ask Moscow...

Cairo: A second flight recorder has been retrieved from the crashed EgyptAir flight MS804, containing data from aircraft systems which could shed light on...

Falluja: Iraqi forces on Friday entered the centre of Falluja, the Iraqi city longest held by IS, nearly four weeks after the start of a US-backed offensive...

Jakarta: Indonesian rescuers worked on Thursday to save a pod of beached whales that got trapped in a mangrove swamp at low tide, fisheries officials...

Geneva: IS militants has committed the crime of genocide against the Yazidis in Syria and Iraq, seeking to destroy the ethno-religious group of 400,000...

Moscow: Russia wants a "long-term ceasefire" in Syria's largest city of Aleppo, Interfax news agency quoted Russian Deputy Foreign Minuster...

Beirut: Iran has filed a formal complaint with the International Court of Justice to recover nearly $2 billion in assets frozen in the United States,...

Baghdad: Iraq's interior minister said it was difficult to prevent attacks against people fleeing the IS-held city of Falluja, but denied that such...