Middle East

Paris: France has concluded after analysing "reliable intelligence" and open sources that a chemical attack on Douma on April 7 was carried out by...

Cairo: Egypt is to extend its nationwide state of emergency for three months from April 14, the official gazette said early on Saturday. Egypt first imposed...

Beirut: The Syrian opposition said Western strikes on Saturday would not change the course of the seven-year-old war as the army said it would crush...

Ankara: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said an attack on Syria by the United States, France and Britain on Saturday was a crime and would...

Ghazni, Afghanistan: Taliban militants over-ran a district in Afghanistan's Ghazni province on Thursday, killing more than a dozen people including the...

London: British Prime Minister Theresa May said all the indications were that the Syrian authorities were responsible for a chemical attack in the Syrian...

London: Britain has not yet reached a decision on how to respond to a suspected poison gas attack in Syria, Brexit minister David Davis said on Thursday,...

Gaza Border: As plumes of tear gas drift across the Israeli no-go zone inside Gaza's border fence, Palestinian protesters dart between them, relying on...

Washington/Beirut: US President Donald Trump warned Russia on Wednesday of imminent military action in Syria over a suspected poison gas attack, declaring...