World / Middle East

AMMAN, Jordan: Amman, Moscow and Washington have agreed to establish a temporary "de-escalation zone" in southern Syria, according to Jordan’s official Petra news...

BAGHDAD: Iraqi forces on Saturday recaptured a sub-district from the IS terrorist group in the western Anbar province, according to an army officer....

Danang, Vietnam: The United States and Russia issued a presidential joint statement saying there was "no military solution" to the war in Syria...

Tehran, A senior aide to the head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) announced on Saturday that the AEOI experts had...

Occupied Jerusalem: The Israeli occupation army arrested Colonel Ali Al Qaimari, the police chief of the Jerusalem governorate and its suburbs in the...

Beirut: Islamic State group jihadists have recaptured nearly all of Albu Kamal, putting up a fierce fightback for what had been the last...

Jerusalem: The Israeli army said it had shot down a Russian-made Syrian drone carrying out a reconnaissance mission over the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights...

Gaza City, Palestinian Territories, Tens of thousands of Palestinians gathered in Gaza on Saturday to commemorate the death of veteran leader Yasser Arafat...

Baghdad: Iraqi forces launched Saturday an operation liberate the Rumana and Rawa districts in Anbar province, the last remaining towns under the ISIS...

Tehran,: An Iranian fighter jet crashed Saturday during a training exercise and the pilot was killed, the website of the elite Revolutionary Guards...

CAIRO: Ten terrorists were killed during an airstrike in Egypt’s northern Sinai Peninsula, according to security sources. Apache helicopter gunships raided the terrorists'...

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump approved a joint statement on Syria after a brief contact at the APEC...

Beirut: Lebanese Army Commander, General Joseph Aoun on Friday stressed that the security situation in his country is under control and that the...

United Nations, United States: An Islamic State faction in Somalia has grown significantly over the past year, carrying out attacks in Puntland and...

Tunis:  Tunisia on Friday extended for another three months a state of emergency introduced two years ago following a series of deadly jihadist...

Paris:  A French appeals court on Friday dealt a blow to two journalists accused of trying to blackmail the king of Morocco by...

Jerusalem:  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was questioned by police on Thursday evening in connection with two separate investigations into alleged corruption, Israeli...

ANKARA, Turkey: A total of 111 Islamic State terror suspects were arrested in Ankara on Thursday, according to a police source. The Ankara...