Middle East

Dubai/Washington: Iran confirmed on Sunday the detention of an Iranian-American visiting the country, the latest in a string of arrests of dual nationals in...

Cairo: An aircraft powered by solar energy left Egypt on Sunday on the last leg of the first ever fuel-free flight around the globe. Solar Impulse 2, a...

Tripoli: Unable to get specialist care for his six-year-old daughter in Libya or a visa for treatment abroad, Abdulhakim Shaybi bought a motor boat and set...

London/Tunis: Libya's hopes to boost crude exports have been dealt a blow after the head of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) objected to a deal...

Baghdad: Iraqi forces are digging a trench on the northern outskirts of Falluja a month after taking it back from IS militant group, security officials said...

Beirut: IS group shunned an offer for its fighters to withdraw safely from the Syrian city of Manbij and clashes with US-backed forces still raged after its...

Dubai: Iran said on Saturday the international community should make fighting terrorism its top priority, after an 18-year-old German-Iranian gunman...

Washington: Skeptics in the US government, European allies in the anti-IS coalition and the main Syrian opposition, distrustful of Russia's intentions,...

Benghazi/United Nations: Fourteen unidentified bodies with shot wounds to the head have been found in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, a hospital...

Sirte (Libya): Libyan forces said on Friday they had edged further into the centre of Sirte as they seek to recapture the city from IS, following heavy...