Middle East

Geneva: The population of Mosul has endured huge suffering in the war to take the northern Iraqi city back from IS and trauma cases among civilians are...

Cairo/Ismailia (Egypt): Egypt's parliament on Tuesday approved an extension of a nationwide state of emergency until the end of September as a police...

Mosul/Erbil: Iraqi forces slowed their advance on Tuesday through the last streets in Mosul controlled by IS where militants and civilians are packed in...

Beirut: When builder Abu Salem repairs a shell hole in a house in rebel-held southern Syria, he knows it might not be the last job he does on the...

Beirut: A fire killed a girl at a Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley overnight, a medical source said, the second lethal fire in a Syrian...

Mosul/Erbil (Iraq): IS militants were battling to hold on to the last few streets under their control in the Old City of Mosul on Monday, making a doomed...

Beirut: The Syrian army said it would suspend combat operations in southern Syria until Thursday, including in Quneitra province, where Israel has hit army...

Beirut/Damascus: A car bomb killed 20 people in Damascus on Sunday and wounded dozens more, the Syrian foreign ministry said, the first such bombing in the...

Khartoum: Sudan will extend a unilateral ceasefire with rebels until the end of October, a decree by President Omar Hassan Al Bashir said on Sunday, two...

Cairo: An Egyptian court on Sunday upheld the death penalty for 20 men charged with killing policemen in the violence that followed the military's...