World / Middle East

RABAT, Morocco:  A flash flood swept across a soccer field in a southern Moroccan village, killing at least seven people watching a local...

Khartoum: Sudan's new prime minister was Thursday locked in talks to form the first cabinet since the ouster of veteran leader Omar al-Bashir,...

BEIRUT: Syrian state-run media and a war monitor say government forces are pressing ahead with their military offensive in Idlib province, seizing a...

BEIRUT: Syrian opposition activists say government warplanes have struck towns and villages in the northwestern province of Idlib, including one near a Turkish...

Tehran:  A former mayor of Tehran who murdered his wife has been released on bail, his lawyer said Wednesday, two weeks after her...

Rome: An Italian charity ship rescued around 100 migrants in the Mediterranean on Wednesday, bringing the total number of migrants saved to over...

Baghdad: Hundreds of displaced Iraqis, mostly women and children, were transferred from a northern camp to their home areas Wednesday despite humanitarian concerns...

TOKYO: Iran is not seeking to increase tension but every country should be able to enjoy its rights under international law, Foreign Minister...

BEIRUT: Syrian rebels on Tuesday launched a wide-scale attack against a five-month Russia-backed Syrian army campaign aiming to take back the opposition's last...

CAIRO: Libya's coast guard says it has retrieved at least five bodies from a boat carrying dozens of Europe-bound migrants that capsized in...

Qamishli, Syria:  The Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria said Tuesday their forces had started to withdraw from outposts along the Turkish border after...

TEHRAN, Iran: Iran's president back-pedaled Tuesday on possible talks with Donald Trump, saying the U.S. president must first lift sanctions imposed on Tehran,...

Beirut: A Moscow-backed regime offensive in northwest Syria is undermining an arrangement by Russia and Turkey for the anti-government bastion, but their own...

DUBAI: Iran will not talk to the United States until all sanctions imposed on Tehran are lifted, President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday,...

Wad Ramli, Sudan: Days after a devastating flood swallowed up his village, Alsediq Abdelqader bulled his truck through the waters in a desperate...

BEIRUT: Israeli drones bombed a Palestinian base in eastern Lebanon near the border with Syria early Monday amid rising tensions in the Middle...

BEIRUT:  Lebanon's President Michel Aoun said on Monday his country had a right to defend itself after Israeli drone strikes that were like...

JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the military on Monday to cut fuel transfers to Gaza in half, in response to rocket...