Middle East

Beirut: A list backed by mainstream Lebanese parties has won Beirut municipality elections, its leader said early on Monday, seeing off a challenge by an...

Beirut/Paris: Syrian government forces and their allies fought insurgents near Aleppo on Monday and jets carried out raids around a nearby town seized by...

Arbil/Baghdad: Iraqi forces retook a northern village from IS on Monday, supported by artillery and air strikes from a US-led coalition, as they try to...

Dubai: Iran's minister of defence denied on Monday that the Revolutionary Guards had recently tested a medium-range ballistic missile but reiterated...

Cairo: Gunmen killed eight plainclothes police on the southern outskirts of Cairo overnight, the Egyptian interior ministry said, in an assault claimed by...

Amman: Syrian warplanes attacked militants near the northern city of Aleppo on Sunday, both sides said, as the government tried to push back a insurgent...

Ankara: Turkish shelling killed 55 IS insurgents in northern Syria on Saturday evening, military sources said, in retaliation for weeks of rocket attacks on...

Cairo: An Egyptian court on Saturday recommended the death penalty for three journalists and three others charged with endangering national security by...

Amman: Conditions were worsening in a Syrian prison where nearly 800 mostly political detainees have launched a revolt, with security forces failing in an...

Beirut/Geneva: The Syrian military denied on Friday it had conducted air strikes on a camp near the Turkish border that killed at least 28 people, but a top...