Middle East

Rome: The European Union's Mediterranean naval force is offering to train Libyans to run a small coastguard fleet to be able to fight people smuggling...

Brussels: Europe's bold intentions to support Libya's new UN-backed government are faltering as France and Germany resist a bigger role to rebuild...

Baghdad: Iraq's top cleric urged government forces battling to retake Falluja from IS militants to spare civilians trapped in the city on Baghdad's...

Beirut: The father of a Lebanese soldier kidnapped and killed by Al Qaeda's Syrian wing said on television on Tuesday that he had killed the nephew of a...

Cairo: The head of Egypt's forensics authority dismissed a suggestion on Tuesday that the small size of the body parts retrieved since an EgyptAir plane...

Baghdad: Iraqi forces shelled IS targets in Falluja on Tuesday, the second day of an assault to retake the militant stronghold just west of Baghdad, as...

Paris/Cargo: Teams searching for the black box flight recorders of a missing EgyptAir jet that crashed with 66 people aboard face technical constraints that...

Gaza: Israel resumed cement shipments to the Gaza Strip on Monday, ending a 45-day-old ban it imposed after it accused the Palestinian enclave's Hamas...

Cairo: Egypt will have to work 10 times harder to revive its tourism industry, Tourism Minister Yehia Rashed said on Sunday, after a series of setbacks...

Baghdad: Iraqi government forces fought IS militants near Falluja on Monday and bombarded central districts at the outset of an offensive to retake the...