Middle East

Baghdad: Protesters camped out in Baghdad's Green Zone for 24 hours left the heavily fortified government district on Sunday after issuing demands for...

Baghdad: Two suicide car bombs claimed by IS killed at least 32 people and wounded 75 others in the centre of the southern Iraqi city of Samawa on Sunday,...

Gaziantep (Turkey): Two police officers were killed and 23 people wounded in a suicide car bomb attack on police headquarters in the south- eastern Turkish...

Cairo: The Yemeni government suspended direct peace talks to end the country's civil war on Sunday after the Houthi movement and its armed allies seized...

Cairo: Egypt put on trial 237 activists arrested for protesting against President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, judicial sources said on Saturday, the first court...

Beirut: Nearly 30 air strikes hit rebel-held areas of Aleppo on Saturday as a temporary "calm" declared by Syria's military took effect around...

Baghdad: Iraqi security forces fired tear gas and bullets into the air in an effort to stop more supporters of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr from entering...

Beirut: Syria called local truces near Damascus and in a northern province on Friday but no halt to combat on the main battlefield in Aleppo, after a surge...

Ankara: Iranians voted in a second round of parliamentary elections on Friday, with allies of reformist President Hassan Rouhani seeking to wrest more seats...

Tunis: Political divisions in Tunisia's ruling coalition risk undermining economic reforms and paralysing the government as it tries to revive the...