Middle East

Beirut: Warplanes bombed Aleppo on Friday with what residents described as unprecedented ferocity after the Russian-backed Syrian army declared an offensive...

Cairo: At least 133 bodies had been recovered by Friday from a boat carrying hundreds of migrants that capsized off Egypt two days earlier, Egyptian...

Istanbul: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan accused the United States of supplying more weapons to Kurdish fighters in northern Syria this week, saying...

Erbil (Iraq): Deposed Iraqi finance minister Hoshiyar Zebari on Thursday accused former prime minister Nuri Al Maliki of orchestrating his removal from...

Beirut: Warplanes mounted the heaviest air strikes in months against rebel-held districts of the city of Aleppo overnight, rebel officials and the Syrian...

Burg Rashid (Egypt): A boat carrying almost 600 people capsized off Egypt's coast on Wednesday, killing at least 43, in the latest disaster among...

United Nations/Beirut: US Secretary of State John Kerry demanded on Tuesday that Russia and the Syrian government immediately halt flights over Syrian...

Tikrit (Iraq): Iraq's military closed in on Wednesday on the centre of Shirqat, a northern town held by IS seen as a stepping stone in the campaign to...

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...