World / Middle East

Egypt's Sisi meets Israeli PM at UN for first public talks 19 Sep 2017 - 01:58 pm

Cairo: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu publicly for the first time in New York to discuss Middle East...

Motorbike explosion in Syrian city kills child, monitors say 19 Sep 2017 - 08:57 am

BEIRUT: A booby-trapped motorbike exploded in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli on Monday, killing a child and wounding six other people, the...

France defends Iran nuclear deal, Trump to decide soon 18 Sep 2017 - 09:25 pm

UNITED NATIONS: France made a fresh plea on Monday for the United States to preserve the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and suggested its...

Trump says giving Mideast peace ‘an absolute go’ 18 Sep 2017 - 09:22 pm

NEW YORK: US President Donald Trump said on Monday he believed “we really have a chance” to make peace between Israel and the...

Tunisia postpones first post-revolt municipal polls 18 Sep 2017 - 09:22 pm

Tunisia's electoral commission on Monday indefinitely postponed the first municipal elections since a 2011 uprising that toppled long-time dictator Zine El Abidine Ben...

'Ridiculous' if Trump doesn't back 2-state solution: Palestinian official 18 Sep 2017 - 08:06 pm

Ramallah, Palestinian Territories: A senior Palestinian official said Monday it would be "utterly ridiculous" if Donald Trump did not commit to the two-state...

Syria war crimes investigator blasts impunity in farewell speech 18 Sep 2017 - 05:53 pm

Geneva: Outgoing Syria war crimes investigator Carla Del Ponte said on Monday she had quit her post out of frustration over "total impunity",...

Supreme court steps in to block Iraq Kurd independence vote 18 Sep 2017 - 05:23 pm

Baghdad: Iraq's supreme court Monday ordered the suspension of a September 25 referendum on the independence of Iraqi Kurdistan, as legal and political...

Syria troops closer to besieging IS after crossing key river 18 Sep 2017 - 04:00 pm

Moscow: Syrian government troops came closer Monday to encircling the Islamic State group in a pocket of Deir Ezzor city after crossing the...

Lebanese woman shot dead by 4-year-old son in gun accident 18 Sep 2017 - 02:43 pm

BEIRUT: A woman in south Lebanon was killed on Monday after her four-year-old son accidentally shot her with a hunting rifle, a security...

US, Russian top diplomats discuss Syria in New York 18 Sep 2017 - 11:38 am

NEW YORK: U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov met on Sunday on the sidelines of the United...

Bombing in W. Mosul kills 15, including tribal fighters 18 Sep 2017 - 10:53 am

NINEVEH, Iraq: At least 15 people were killed, mostly Sunni-Arab volunteer fighters, when a bomb went off in a school in western Mosul,...

Iraqi forces ‘hunting down’ IS remnants in Saladin 18 Sep 2017 - 10:44 am

BAGHDAD: Iraqi forces on Sunday launched fresh operations aimed at “hunting down” IS terrorists still holed up in the Saladin province north of...

Libya says over 3,000 migrants rescued in week 17 Sep 2017 - 07:20 pm

Tripoli: The Libyan coastguard has rescued more than 3,000 migrants in 12 separate operations off the country's west coast in the past week,...

Iraq VP warns against 'second Israel' in Kurdistan 17 Sep 2017 - 05:44 pm

Baghdad: An Iraqi vice president warned Sunday that Baghdad would not tolerate the creation of "a second Israel" after the Jewish state became...

Russia rejects allegation it bombed U.S.-backed fighters in Syria 17 Sep 2017 - 02:55 pm

MOSCOW: The Russian Defence Ministry on Sunday denied it had bombed U.S.-backed militias in Syria, saying its planes only targeted Islamic State militants...

Lavrov, Tillerson discuss ways to resolve Syrian crisis 17 Sep 2017 - 12:48 pm

Moscow: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov discussed in a phone conversation with his US counterpart Rex Tillerson ways to resolve the Syrian crisis....