Middle East

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...

Stuttgart (Germany): IS militants killed a US serviceman in northern Iraq on Tuesday after blasting through Kurdish defences and overrunning a town in the...

Beirut/Moscow: Rebel fighters launched an assault in Syria's divided northern city of Aleppo on Tuesday and fired rockets on a hospital, in the latest...

Berlin: Climate change may render parts of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) uninhabitable, forcing the residents to leave the region which is home to...