Middle East

Nawaran (Iraq): When IS militant group swept into the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar in 2014, a few young Yazidi women took up arms against the militants...

Stuttgart (Germany): IS militants killed a US serviceman in northern Iraq on Tuesday after blasting through Kurdish defences and overrunning a town in the...

Beirut/Moscow: Rebel fighters launched an assault in Syria's divided northern city of Aleppo on Tuesday and fired rockets on a hospital, in the latest...

Berlin: Climate change may render parts of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) uninhabitable, forcing the residents to leave the region which is home to...

Amman/Geneva: Washington and Moscow said on Monday they were working hard to extend a truce in Syria to Aleppo, the divided northern city where a sharp...

Baghdad: Three bombs went off in and around Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 14 people, including pilgrims, police and medical sources said. The largest...

Occupied Jerusalem: Israel plans to reopen a second border point for commercial traffic into the Gaza Strip, an official said on Monday, a step in gradually...

Cairo: Egyptian police raided the press syndicate in Cairo late on Sunday and arrested two journalists critical of the government, a syndicate official and...

Ankara: Shelling by Turkish artillery and drones which took off from southern Turkey struck IS targets in Syria on Sunday, killing 34 militants, the Turkish...

Moscow/Beirut: Russia said on Sunday talks were taking place to include Aleppo in a temporary lull in fighting declared by the Syrian army in some western...