Middle East

Geneva: IS fighters may have captured up to 3,000 fleeing Iraqi villagers on Thursday and subsequently executed 12 of them, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said...

Sydney: Australia said on Friday it was suspending funding for relief group World Vision's operations in the Palestinian Territories after allegations...

Tunis: Tunisia's President Beji Caid Essebsi named a little-known technocrat as prime minister on Wednesday after parliament ousted Habib Essid in a...

Athens: If Mustafa had known what it would be like living in a refugee camp in the Greek capital, he would never have left Syria. Four months of living in a...

Tunis: Tunisia's President Beji Caid Essebsi has proposed a junior minister who is a family member as his candidate to replace sacked prime minister...

Beirut: A Syrian rescue service operating in rebel-held territory said on Tuesday a helicopter dropped containers of toxic gas overnight on a town close to...

Sirte (Libya): A day after the United States began a formal campaign of airstrikes against IS's stronghold in Libya, anti-IS fighters welcomed...

Sirte (Libya): US planes bombed IS targets in Libya on Monday, responding to the UN-backed government's request to help push the militants from their...

Baghdad: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi ordered an investigation on Monday into allegations of corruption in weapons deals that risk re-igniting a...

Beirut/Moscow: A Russian military helicopter was shot down in Syria's rebel-held Idlib province on Monday killing all five people on board, in the...