Middle East

Doha: Yemeni army units backed by an Arab coalition attacked positions held by Houthis in a strategic province east of the capital on Wednesday, a day after...

Occupied Jerusalem: Prosecutors in Israel on Wednesday charged 13 people with inciting violence and terrorism after a wedding video showed far-right Jews...

Cairo: Visitors to a bookshop in Cairo are being invited into a dark, soundproof room to scream at the top of their lungs in an effort to relieve their...

East of Mosul/Baghdad: An elite unit of the Iraqi army paused its week-long advance on Mosul as it approached the city's eastern edge on Tuesday,...

Moscow/Beirut: Russia said on Tuesday Russian and Syrian military planes had not launched air strikes on Aleppo since Moscow said it was suspending bombing...

Cairo: Egypt has seized 9,000 tonnes of sugar in recent raids on factories and warehouses, the prime minister said on Monday, describing the move as...

London: Although torn by war, Iraq is the world's most generous country towards strangers in need, according to a new global index of charitable...

Ankara: Turkish artillery fire has already played a role in the effort to drive IS from the Iraqi city of Mosul and four Turkish fighter jets are on standby...

Kirkuk (Iraq): At least 100 fighters sneaked into Kirkuk in the early hours of Friday with machine guns, rocket propelled grenades, suicide vests and a...

Cairo: Egypt expects to cut its trade deficit by $11-$12 billion in 2016 as part of efforts to ease an acute dollar shortage and is encouraging domestic...