World / Middle East

Dubai: A cargo plane with nine people on board crashed on Monday at Iran's Fath airport, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported, saying...

WASHINGTON:  The White House's national security team last fall asked the Pentagon to provide it with options for striking Iran after a group...

BAGHDAD  - Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohamed Alhakim says his country supports efforts to restore Syria's membership in the Arab League eight years after...

DUBAI: Iran is taking preliminary steps to design uranium fuel with a purity of 20 percent for reactors instead of having to copy...

DAMASCUS: The Syrian government hopes dialogue with Syrian Kurdish groups will intensify, a minister said on Sunday, signalling support for talks the Kurds...

Tehran, Iran's foreign ministry summoned Poland's top diplomat in the country to protest its decision to host what it called an "anti-Iranian" summit,...

BEIRUT: Artillery shelling by government forces pounded parts of the northwestern Idlib province on Saturday, thwarting an infiltration attempt by militants as tension...

WASHINGTON: The U.S. military says it has started pulling equipment, but not troops, out of Syria as a first step in meeting President...

ANKARA: Iranian authorities have extradited 242 convicted Afghans to their country, according to an Iranian official on Saturday. The step comes as a...

Istanbul: Turkish media says two people were injured after a train hit a construction vehicle on an Istanbul suburban route. The official Anadolu...

Washington: The US military has begun moving non-essential gear out of Syria but is not withdrawing troops for now, defense officials said amid...

Arsal, Lebanon:  It has almost become very difficult for around 60,000 Syrians to survive at a refugee camp in eastern Lebanon as they...

Gaza City:  Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian woman during protests along the Gaza border yesterday, the health ministry in the Hamas-run enclave...

DUBAI: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif criticised Poland on Friday for jointly hosting a global summit with the United States focused on...

Hasakeh, Syria:  The US-led coalition in Syria has begun withdrawing its troops, a spokesman said Friday, less than a month after US President...

Khartoum, A Sudanese group that has spearheaded anti-government demonstrations since last month called Friday for nationwide protests next week to pile pressure on...

CAIRO:  U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Barack Obama on Thursday of sowing chaos in the Middle East by failing to adequately...

Cairo: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday that a full US troop withdrawal from Syria announced by President Donald Trump last month...