Middle East

Baghdad: Iraq's parliament sacked Finance Minister Hoshiyar Zebari on Wednesday over corruption allegations, a move that risks further destabilising the...

Paris: The United States has begun unblocking deals by Western planemakers to renew Iran's ageing passenger fleet in a move likely to ease growing...

Geneva/Beirut: The United Nations suspended all aid shipments into Syria on Tuesday after a deadly attack on a convoy carrying humanitarian supplies, while...

Tikrit (Iraq): Iraqi forces launched an operation on Tuesday to retake the northern town of Shirqat from IS, a stepping stone in their campaign to recapture...

Hebron: A Palestinian who tried to stab an Israeli soldier was shot dead on Tuesday and an Israeli aircraft intercepted a drone launched by Hamas, the army...

Havana: Iran's President Hassan Rouhani met with his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro on Monday in Havana to reaffirm friendly ties between the two...

Moscow: The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Russia's military was checking media reports of air strikes on a humanitarian aid convoy near Aleppo in Syria...

Beirut: Syria's military declared a week-long ceasefire over on Monday and vowed to continue fighting, even as officials from the United States and...

Tehran: Iran has reduced the number of airplanes it plans to buy from Airbus by six amid delays in US regulatory approvals, and may knock one plane off a...

Occupied Jerusalem: Israeli forces killed two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Monday, police said, and two Israeli police officers were stabbed in...