Middle East

Baghdad/Geneva: The final battle to recapture Falluja, IS's stronghold near Baghdad, will start in "days, not weeks", a militia leader said on...

Geneva: More than 4,200 Iraqis from Mosul fled to Syria in May, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday, adding it is gearing up for up to 50,000...

Budapest: A Syrian refugee has made the most of a fad for trim and dyed beards in Hungary, setting up a barber shop in downtown Budapest popular with...

Beirut: IS fighters captured territory from Syrian rebels near the Turkish border on Friday and inched closer to a town on a supply route for foreign-backed...

Occupied Jerusalem: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his choice for defence minister, ultranationalist Avigdor Lieberman, signed a coalition agreement...

Occupied Jerusalem: B'Tselem, one of Israel's leading human rights groups, said on Wednesday it would no longer refer complaints of abuse carried...

Cairo: Egypt is taking on two companies, one French and one Italian, to help search for the black boxes of the EgyptAir plane that crashed in the...

Rome: The European Union's Mediterranean naval force is offering to train Libyans to run a small coastguard fleet to be able to fight people smuggling...

Brussels: Europe's bold intentions to support Libya's new UN-backed government are faltering as France and Germany resist a bigger role to rebuild...

Baghdad: Iraq's top cleric urged government forces battling to retake Falluja from IS militants to spare civilians trapped in the city on Baghdad's...