World / Middle East

MOSCOW: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump should be more specific about his proposal to set...

Tehran: Defence Minister Hossein Dehghan confirmed on Wednesday that Iran had tested a ballistic missile, but denied that was a breach of its...

RAMALLAH, Palestine: Israeli authorities on Tuesday night approved the construction of 3,000 new settlement units in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. In a statement,...

ANKARA: Fourteen Islamic State terrorists were "neutralized" in northern Syria over the last 24 hours as part of Turkish-backed Operation Euphrates Shield, the...

WASHINGTON: The U.S. is to deliver armored vehicles to a contingent of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the Pentagon said Tuesday. Spokesman...

CAIRO: Tunisian authorities on Tuesday released 14 Egyptian fishermen detained earlier this month for illegally fishing in Tunisian territorial waters.  The Egyptian state...

CAIRO: The Egyptian authorities have announced that prices for subsidized sugar and cooking oil would be raised -- by 14 and 20 percent...

JERUSALEM: Palestinian municipal elections that were cancelled under controversial circumstances last year are now set to be held in May, the Ramallah-based Palestinian...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: Moroccan King Mohammed VI delivered a speech Tuesday to an assembly of the African Union (AU) heads of state and...

BRUSSELS: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday said the alliance should develop its own missile systems after reports Iran had conducted ballistic...

NINEVEH, Iraq: Iraqi forces on Tuesday seized a munitions depot amid ongoing army operations to capture eastern Mosul from the Islamic State terrorist...

KARACHI, Pakistan: Fresh Israeli settlements and U.S. plans to move its embassy to Jerusalem dominated talks between Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Palestinian...

TUNIS: Tunisia’s parliament has voted to draw up a fact-finding committee tasked with investigating networks that allegedly recruit Tunisian youth for conflicts in...

Istanbul: Turkey arrested two MPs from the main pro-Kurdish party yesterday, including its chief spokesman, the latest move in a crackdown on the...

BEIRUT: The Syrian government has denied rumours that President Bashar al-Assad is suffering from ill health, saying he was “carrying out his duties...

Jerusalem: The Palestinian Authority said yesterday that local elections delayed last October after a spat between political factions will now take place in...

Jerusalem: Israeli Jews born in the seven countries included under US President Donald Trump's travel restrictions will not be banned from America, the...

CAIRO: The Islamic State  (IS)group in Egypt claimed yesterday that its fighters killed and wounded 20 Egyptian soldiers in four days of clashes...