Middle East

Beirut: Lebanon has identified the bodies of 10 of its soldiers found along the Syrian border in a zone taken back from IS last week, state news agency NNA...

Washington: If U.S. President Donald Trump tells Congress in October that Iran is not complying with a nuclear deal it agreed with world powers, that does...

Beirut: Syrian government forces on Tuesday reached troops besieged for years by IS in the eastern city of Deir Al Zor, the militants' last major...

Tripoli: France's Foreign Minister Jean Yves Le Drian was in Libya on Monday to meet rival political leaders and offer support for a deal aimed at...

Beirut: With a sudden lunge through extremist lines, the Syrian military and its allies on Monday came to within three kilometres of relieving the Euphrates...

Beirut: The Syrian army and its allies were fighting on Saturday in IS's last pocket in central Syria after taking the heavily defended village of...

Paris: France suggested on Wednesday that the nuclear deal Iran struck with world powers in 2015 could be supplemented through "future...

Baghdad: Iraqi forces backed by paramilitaries began fighting house-by-house in the one town left to take from IS before they can declare complete victory...

Amman: Jordan will open its main border crossing with Iraq on Wednesday for the first time since 2015, now that Iraqi forces have gained control of the main...

Kirkik (Iraq): Iraq's oil-producing region of Kirkuk will vote in a referendum on Kurdish independence on September 25, its provisional council decided...