Middle East

Amman: Syria demanded on Saturday that Turkish troops who had entered northwestern Syria leave immediately, saying their presence constituted a...

Ain Issa (Syria)/Beirut: IS is on the verge of defeat in Syria's Raqqa and the city may finally be cleared of the militants on Saturday or Sunday, the...

Cairo: The Palestinian group Hamas said it has reached an agreement with rival group Fatah, ending a decade-long rift. Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip,...

Cairo: Saudi Arabian budget airline Flynas said on Wednesday it would start flying to Iraq, the first Saudi airline to go offer that route in more than 25...

Baghdad: Iraqi government forces and Iranian-trained Iraqi paramilitaries are "preparing a major attack" on Kurdish forces in the area of Kirkuk,...

Beirut: Iran's moderate president gave a full-throated defence of his one-time rivals in the Revolutionary Guards on Wednesday, as the country's...

Beirut: Three men blew themselves up near the police headquarters in central Damascus on Wednesday, the second such attack to hit the Syrian capital this...

Moscow: A Russian military jet crashed while taking off from Russia's Hmeymim air base in Syria on Tuesday in an incident that killed its two-man crew,...

London: Iran said on Tuesday that the United States would be "joining the terrorists' camp" if it chose to designate its elite Revolutionary...

Tunis: The U.N. migration agency said on Monday it was trying to provide assistance to large numbers of migrants who had been held in the smuggling hub of...