World / Middle East

JERUSALEM: An Israeli rights group has released a video showing Israeli forces shooting down a mentally ill Palestinian in the occupied West Bank....

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) yesterday condemned an Israeli raid on the main office of the official Palestinian news agency Wafa. On...

Baghdad:  Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi said on Tuesday that an ongoing political dispute over unfilled ministries in his government was out...

Ankara: A Turkish provincial police chief was shot dead by an officer in the northeastern province of Rize, the ancestral region of President...

BEIRUT: Lebanese President Michel Aoun said on Tuesday he was intervening in stalled efforts to form a new national unity government, warning the...

GENEVA: Exports of Iranian oil have improved since early November, Iran's president Hassan Rouhani said in a statement broadcast live on state TV...

RAMALLAH, Palestine:  Turkish soap operas, which keep viewers glued to their screens worldwide, from Venezuela to Pakistan, are now reaching new heights of...

RAMALLAH, West Bank:  Israeli soldiers raided the offices of Palestinian news agency Wafa on Monday in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah,...

BAGHDAD:  A hush descended on central Baghdad on Monday as Iraqis observed a minute's silence for those killed in the battle against Islamic...

BEIRUT: U.S.-backed Syrian fighters pushed deeper into the Islamic State group's last remaining stronghold on Monday, capturing an abandoned hospital. The Kurdish-led Syrian...

Serjilla, Syrie, Eight-year-old Maya Merhi had to struggle around a Syrian displaced persons camp on artificial limbs made of plastic tubing and tin...

AMMAN, Jordan: The United Nations has begun sending desperately needed aid from Jordan to hundreds of thousands of civilians in war-torn Syria. The...

Rimbo, Sweden:  Yemen's Huthi rebels are open to more talks with the rival government if progress is made this week at UN-brokered talks...

Khartoum:  A helicopter crashed Sunday in eastern Sudan, killing at least five local officials who were on board, state media reported. Witnesses said...

KHARTOUM: At least five local government officials were killed in a plane crash in Sudan's eastern al-Qadarif state on Sunday, state TV reported....

Khartoum: The international community has unanimously agreed that the Doha peace document is the basis of the peace process in Darfur and that...

BAGHDAD:  A year after it was routed from Iraq in a devastating war that left entire neighborhoods and towns in ruins, the Islamic...

Rimbo, Sweden: Yemen's foreign minister on Saturday said Aden will be home to the country's main airport, in the midst of talks to...