Middle East

Beirut: Syrian government forces took back control of an area near Damascus that provides most of the capital's water supplies after reaching a deal for...

Cairo: Five Iraqi passengers and one Yemeni were barred from boarding an EgyptAir flight from Cairo to New York on Saturday following President Donald...

Dubai: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday it was no time to build walls between nations and criticised steps towards cancelling world trade...

Beirut: Syrian government forces and their allies drove IS militants out of several villages northeast of Aleppo between Tuesday and Wednesday, a monitoring...

Benghazi: East Libyan forces said on Wednesday they had taken complete control of a long contested district in Benghazi after dozens of families and...

Beirut: A powerful militant group has crushed a Free Syrian Army rebel faction in northwestern Syria, in an attack that threatens to deal a critical blow to...

Baghdad: IS militants have taken up sniper positions in buildings on the west bank of the Tigris river ahead of an expected government offensive into that...

Astana: Russia and regional powers Turkey and Iran backed a shaky truce between Syria's warring parties on Tuesday and agreed to monitor its compliance,...

Occupied Jerusalem: Israel announced plans on Tuesday for 2,500 more settlement homes in the occupied West Bank, the second such declaration since US...

Baghdad: The United Nations said on Tuesday it is "racing against the clock" to prepare emergency aid for hundreds of thousands of endangered...