World / Middle East

Beirut: A leading Syrian opposition body on Wednesday demanded the United Nations act immediately to protect residents of Aleppo, battered by advancing regime...

JERUSALEM: Israeli jets struck sites near the Syrian capital Damascus early Wednesday, local media reported. The Israeli military refused to comment but the...

ALEPPO, Syria: At least 45 civilians were killed Wednesday when Syrian regime forces shelled a group of refugees in Syria’s northern city of...

Mosul, Iraq: Up to 500,000 civilians in Mosul are facing a "catastrophic" drinking water shortage, the UN warned on Wednesday, as Iraqi forces...

PARIS: The president of the Aleppo local council on Wednesday pleaded that a Syrian government assault on eastern Aleppo be halted to create...

BEIRUT: Air strikes against rebel-held areas of Aleppo intensified on Wednesday, hitting areas of its old city, though pro-government forces had yet to...

Beirut: More than 50,000 people have fled rebel-held east Aleppo in the last four days as government forces advance, the Syrian Observatory for...

An Egyptian appeals court has upheld a 20-year sentence for the deposed president Mohamed Morsi. Saturday's ruling is the first final verdict against...

Geneva: A fleeing seven-year-old child was amongst dozens more civilians allegedly executed by the Islamic State group in Mosul in recent weeks, the...

ALEPPO, Syria: At least 25 civilians were killed Tuesday in regime airstrikes in Syria’s northwestern city of Aleppo, according to a pro-opposition Syrian...

ISTANBUL: An independent Palestine within pre-1967 borders is the only hope for a lasting peace in the Middle East, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan...

Geneva: Up to 16,000 civilians have fled strife-torn parts of eastern Aleppo as the rebels lost all of the northern neighbourhoods of their...

Ramallah: Israeli forces detained at least 11 Palestinians during overnight raids across the West Bank, according to local sources. Army forces broke into...

BAGHDAD: At least three people were killed and eight others injured in a bomb attack in Baghdad on Monday. The attack was carried...

SAMSUN, Turkey: Four Iraqi nationals were arrested in Turkey's Samsun province Monday evening as part of an anti-Islamic State probe. According to sources...

BAGHDAD: At least 14 Iraqi civilians and 10 Islamic State terrorists were killed in an airstrike by U.S.-led coalition warplanes in the northern...

ANKARA: Turkish Air Force killed 11 terrorists in airstrikes carried out on four shelters used by Islamic State in Syria’s western Aleppo city...

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey: A member of the “village guard” was martyred and another wounded in an attack by PKK terrorists in southeast Turkey late...