Middle East

Occupied Jerusalem: A team of Israeli archaeologists and high school students have unearthed a 3,800-year-old pottery jug bearing a statuette of a person...

Tunis: Tunisian lawyers went on their second strike in a month on Wednesday to protest against new taxes and tighter fiscal controls in the government's...

Gaza: Palestinian surgeons in the Gaza Strip were discussing medical options on Wednesday after the unexpected birth of conjoined twins - baby girls who...

WASHINGTON: The United States has issued a license to France's Airbus for the sale of 106 commercial planes to Iran Air, Iran's flagship carrier, a...

Occupied West Bank: An Israeli security guard shot and killed a Palestinian who tried to stab him at a busy checkpoint in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday,...

Beirut: The Syrian army on Tuesday accused rebels in besieged east Aleppo of possessing food stores and told them to distribute rations to alleviate...

Baghdad/Geneva: US forces backing an Iraqi army campaign against IS in Mosul carried out an air strike on a bridge spanning the Tigris river, restricting...

Cairo: Egypt's Court of Cassation overturned on Tuesday a life sentence against deposed president Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood and ordered a...

Beirut: Lebanon's prime minister-designate Saad Al Hariri said on Monday his efforts to form a new government faced "stumbling blocks",...

Cairo: Egypt's public prosecutor has brought before the military judiciary 292 suspected IS militants, some of whom are accused of plotting to...