Middle East

Baghdad: Iraqi Members of Parliament (MPs) disrupted a parliament session on Tuesday, blocking Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi from presenting a new cabinet...

Benghazi: A government based in eastern Libya shipped its first cargo of crude on Monday in defiance of authorities in the capital Tripoli, a bold move that...

Istanbul: The United States will deploy a rocket launcher system in Turkey near the border with a part of Syria held by IS, Turkey's foreign minister...

Abu Dhabi/Hasaka (Syria): Syria's war has destroyed agricultural infrastructure and fractured the state system that provides farmers with seeds and buys...

Beirut: Attacks by government forces and rebels killed at least 30 people, including eight children, in the last 24 hours in Aleppo, a city seeing some of...

Qadiya: When nine-year-old Murad got the chance to flee from IS - the group that repeatedly molested his mother and slaughtered or enslaved thousands from...

Baghdad: A car bomb exploded in a district of eastern Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 39 others, security and medical sources...

Hanover (Germany): President Barack Obama announced on Monday the biggest expansion of US ground troops in Syria since the civil war there began, saying he...

Dubai: Egypt netted just $500 million in tourism revenue in the first quarter of 2016, down from $1.5 billion a year earlier, a tourism ministry adviser...

Makhmour (Iraq): Towering over his Kurdish partner at a checkpoint in northern Iraq, US volunteer John Cole cuts an unusual figure on the road to the newest...