Middle East

Amman: Syrian President Bashar Al Assad said his family did not "own" the country they have run for 46 years, saying he would step aside if the...

Amman: At least 30 people died in air strikes on the rebel-held Syrian city of Idlib on Tuesday, in some of the heaviest raids there in months, witnesses...

Dubai: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed Donald Trump's warning to Iran to stop its missile tests, saying the new US president had shown the "real...

Occupied Jerusalem: Israel passed a law on Monday retroactively legalising about 4,000 settler homes built on privately owned Palestinian land in the...

Occupied Jerusalem/Washington: Seizing on an Iranian missile test, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and new US President Donald Trump are nearing...

London: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appealed to Britain to join new sanctions against Iran as he met his British counterpart Theresa May in...

Cairo: Remittances from expatriate Egyptians rose 11.8 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2016, the central bank said on Monday, with most of the increase...

Beirut: Syrian government forces advanced on the northern IS-held city of Al Bab on Monday, cutting off the last supply route that connects it to militant...

Mosul: The flyblown corpses of IS militants have been rotting along a main street in north Mosul for two weeks, a health risk for passersby. Suicide...

Astana: Experts from Russia, Turkey, Iran and the United Nations held a technical meeting in the Kazakh capital on Monday to discuss the implementation of...