Middle East

Baghdad: Iraqi authorities have shut the offices of two television channels and ordered a satirical show off air, tightening control over the media as...

Baghdad: An IS attack on a state-run gas plant in Baghdad's northern outskirts on Sunday killed at least 11 people, including policemen, and forced two...

Beirut: IS attacked a hospital in Deir Al Zor on Saturday and seized territory on the edge of the besieged eastern Syrian city still partly controlled by...

Baghdad: A political crisis in Iraq is hampering the fight against IS, Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi said on Saturday after some of the bloodiest attacks...

Beirut: Lebanon's Hezbollah said on Saturday its top military commander Mustafa Badreddine was killed in Syria by artillery shells fired by insurgents...

Beirut: Insurgents killed at least 19 civilians believed to be from families of fighters loyal to the Syrian government after capturing a village from...

Tikrit: Shooting and bomb attacks claimed by IS killed at least 16 people in northern Iraq on Friday, days after IS's deadliest blasts so far this year...

Washington: The US Treasury Department on Friday sanctioned Aguila Saleh, the president of Libya's internationally recognised parliament in Tobruk, over...

Beirut: Hezbollah's top military commander Mustafa Badreddine has been killed in a blast at a base near Damascus airport, the group said on Friday, one...

Gaza: Egypt opened its border with Gaza for the first time in three months on Wednesday, giving Palestinians a two-day respite from a closure stemming from...