World / Middle East

Gaza:  Israeli air strikes in Gaza killed three Palestinians and destroyed a Hamas TV building on Monday after a barrage of rocket fire...

BERLIN: The security of Europe cannot be achieved without countries of key importance such as Turkey, the NATO chief said on Monday. Delivering...

MISRATA, Libya: Some 95 migrants picked up by a cargo ship off the Libyan coast have refused to disembark in the western city...

ISTANBUL: Five people, including three children, died after a boat carrying 15 migrants sank off the coast of western Turkey on Monday, the...

DUBAI, Iran's armed forces will protect Iranian oil tankers against any threats, an Iranian military official said on Monday, after the United States...

RAMALLAH, Palestine:  Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday said conspiracies are being plotted against the Palestinian cause. "The Palestinian cause is going through...

Ramallah: Palestinians on Sunday marked 14 years since the death of iconic leader Yasser Arafat, with their campaign for statehood still deadlocked and...

Qamishli, Syria: A Kurdish-led force backed by the US-led anti-jihadist coalition said Sunday that it was resuming its offensive against the Islamic State...

BEIRUT: The Syrian government has protested to the United Nations about an air strike by the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State which it...

Seven Turkish soldiers were killed and 25 soldiers hurt, including four severely, in a blast at a military base in Hakkari province Friday,...

AMMAN: Twelve people died in heavy rains and flooding in parts of Jordan on Friday and authorities evacuated foreign tourists from the ancient...

Petra: Official media say the death toll from flash floods unleashed by heavy rains in Jordan has risen to 11, and that searches...

Gaza CITY, Palestine:  For the 33rd consecutive Friday, thousands of Palestinian demonstrators converged on the Gaza-Israel buffer zone to take part in rallies...

Tripoli, The head of Libya's UN-backed government, Fayez al-Sarraj, urged the international community on Thursday to find a "common vision" for the chaos-hit...

Beirut, Syrian government forces killed 22 rebels overnight near Idlib province, in the deadliest such attack in an area where a recent truce...

Gaza City: A Palestinian was killed by Israeli fire during clashes along the Gaza Strip border yesterday, the health ministry in the coastal...

Tunis:  In reshuffling his cabinet this week, Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed has sparked new tensions with the man who appointed him and...

Beit Ur al-Foqa, Palestinian Territories:  The West Bank family of a Palestinian-American who became one of the first two Muslim women elected to...