ANKARA: The Dutch foreign minister has said his two-day visit to Turkey this week will show the mending of fences between Turkey and...
PARIS: The number of U.S. diplomats in Syria has doubled as Islamic State militants near a military defeat, U.S. Defense Secretary Mattis said...
MOGADISHU: Three people were killed in a suicide car bombing by Islamist group al Shabaab which hit a European Union armoured convoy in...
NICOSIA, Cyprus: Cypriot police say 34 Syrian migrants who arrived by boat in the east Mediterranean island nation are seeking asylum. Police said...
IRBIL, Iraq: Iraq's self-ruled Kurdish region held its long-delayed parliamentary elections on Sunday, a year after a vote for independence sparked a punishing...
Beirut: More than 18,000 people, nearly half of them civilians, have been killed in Russian air strikes on Syria since Moscow began its...
TEHRAN, Iran: Iran's official IRNA news agency says the country's special courts have sentenced three to death over financial crimes and corruption. Sunday's...
Tripoli: The UN envoy to Libya told AFP that it will be difficult to hold elections as hoped on December 10, following a...
United Nations, United States: Syria's foreign minister on Saturday denounced US, French and Turkish forces operating in his country as "occupying forces" and...
Baghdad: Iraqi model and Instagram starlet Tara Fares has been shot dead at the wheel of her Porsche convertible in central Baghdad, sending...
Baghdad: Iraq's foreign ministry voiced "regret" on Saturday over a US decision to shut its consulate in the southern city of Basra which...
BEIRUT: Jordan denied on Saturday an announcement by Syria that the Nassib border crossing between the two countries had reopened, a government spokeswoman...
BEIRUT: The Syrian government reopened the Nassib border crossing with Jordan on Saturday, said the transport ministry, three years after the major trade...
Gaza Strip: Israeli troops killed seven Palestinians, two of them children, and wounded dozens more in the deadliest day in recent weeks as...
CAIRO: The U.N. special envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, told Al Jazeera late on Thursday that he looked forward to "announcing the reopening...
LONDON: British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said on Thursday he had had a frank discussion with his Iranian counterpart about detained British-Iranian aid...
NEAR AL-BAB, Syria: Syrian rebels forced from their towns when government forces retook eastern Ghouta near Damascus are starting over in the far...
