Middle East

Amman/Cairo: Syrian state TV said there were casualties in what it said was a suspected U.S. missile attack on a major air base in central Syria but the...

New York: The United Nations Security Council is likely to meet Monday afternoon over the recent chemical attack in Syria at the request of the United...

Beirut/Washington/Moscow: US President Donald Trump said there would be a "big price to pay" for a chemical attack against a besieged rebel-held...

Cairo: Mohamed "Ibn Nufal" Nufal, 24, kisses his mother goodbye in Cairo's Tahrir Square as he sets off for the World Cup in Russia - on a...

Dubai: Hackers have attacked networks in a number of countries including data centres in Iran where they left the image of a US flag on screens along with a...

Gaza: A Palestinian journalist died on Saturday after being wounded by Israeli fire on Friday while covering deadly protests along the Israel-Gaza border,...

Beirut: A top Syrian Kurdish politician suggested on Wednesday that the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Iraqi government could mount...

Ankara: Turkey, Iran and Russia pledged on Wednesday to accelerate efforts to bring stability to Syria, underlining their joint commitment to the country a...

Cairo: Egypt plans to hold its first local elections in a decade in the first half of next year, the state news agency MENA reported on Wednesday. Egypt has...

Algiers: Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on Wednesday named new ministers for tourism, trade, sports and parliamentary affairs, state news agency...