Middle East

Cairo: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi promised Israel on Tuesday warmer ties if it accepts efforts to resume peace talks with the Palestinians,...

Paris/Vienna: French President Francois Hollande said on Tuesday an international conference due in late May in Paris to help relaunch peace talks between...

Baghdad: At least 72 people were killed and more than 140 wounded by three bombings in Baghdad on Tuesday, police and medical sources said, extending the...

Vienna: Major power talks on Syria aim to restore a truce across the country and get aid into besieged areas to encourage opposition groups to return to...

Cairo: Egypt is raising the price cap on medicines that cost up to $3.38 (30 Egyptian pounds) by 20 per cent in an effort to address drug shortages, the...

Caesarea (Israel): Archaeologists in Israel have recovered bronze statues and thousands of coins from a merchant ship that sank off the Mediterranean coast...

Vienna: Major powers including the United States are ready to consider demands from Libya's new unity government for exemptions from a United Nations...

Amman: Algeria will supply oil and other energy products to Jordan for the first time under a memorandum of understanding signed on Monday, as the OPEC...

Occupied Jerusalem: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told France's Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault on Sunday that Israel remained opposed to a...

Beirut: Syrian government forces retook a hospital in Deir Al Zor after IS attacked it on Saturday following a dawn offensive by the militants on the...