Middle East

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...

Baghdad: Iraqi security forces ramped up their presence across Baghdad on Friday, blocking most major roads and bridges to keep followers of cleric Moqtada...

Gaza: The leader of Hamas in Gaza said on Friday the group was "not calling for war" with Israel, and that Egypt and other parties were working...

Amman: Relative calm prevailed on Thursday in the Syrian city of Aleppo following a U.S.-Russian agreement to extend a cessation of hostilities that had...

Beirut: Dozens of people were killed in an intense day-long battle between Syrian rebels and government forces in western Aleppo that continued...

Washington: A US Navy SEAL killed by IS militants in northern Iraq on Tuesday was part of a "quick reaction force" called in after a firefight...

Tunis/Benghazi (Libya): By defiantly attempting to export their own oil and dispatching troops towards the centre of the country, Libya's eastern...

Nawaran (Iraq): When IS militant group swept into the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar in 2014, a few young Yazidi women took up arms against the militants...