Middle East

Mosul/Baghdad: IS militants defended their remaining stronghold in the Old City of Mosul on Monday, moving stealthily along narrow back alleys as...

Moscow: Russia said on Monday it would treat U.S.-led coalition aircraft flying west of the River Euphrates in Syria as potential targets and track them...

Madrid: Hundreds of migrants, some of them drifting in rubber dinghies off the coast of Libya, were picked up by Spanish and Italian ships on Saturday,...

Mosul: Iraqi forces began storming the IS-held Old City of Mosul on Sunday, an assault they hope will be the last in the eight-month campaign to seize the...

Beirut: The Syrian army said it would suspend combat operations in the southern city of Deraa for 48 hours from Saturday, as mediators announced two...

Erbil: The Iraqi army and minority sect tribal fighters have dislodged IS from the Al Waleed border crossing into Syria, an Iraqi military statement said on...

Cairo: A Cairo criminal court on Saturday recommended the death penalty for 30 people convicted of involvement in the 2015 assassination of Egypt's top...

London: Iranian forces killed three members of an extremist group in the city of Chabahar in southeast Iran on Wednesday and arrested five others, the Mehr...

Amsterdam: The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Wednesday called for the arrest and surrender of Saif Al Islam, who is wanted on war crimes...

Cairo: Egypt's parliament on Wednesday backed plans to hand over two uninhabited Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia under an agreement that has attracted...