Middle East

Occupied Jerusalem: Israel approved building permits on Sunday for hundreds of homes in three occupied East Jerusalem settlements in expectation that US...

Baghdad: IS blew up a landmark hotel in western Mosul on Friday in an apparent attempt to prevent advancing Iraqi forces from using it as a base in their...

Dubai: Iranian rescuers have removed three bodies from the rubble of a high-rise building in Tehran that collapsed after a fire, a fire department spokesman...

At least 75 people, including 45 firefighters, were injured when a blazing high-rise commercial building in downtown Tehran collapsed, Iranian state...

Beirut: After years of political deadlock, Lebanon finally has a new government. Now it needs a new economy. Battered by war in neighbouring Syria,...

Bartella (Iraq): Elite Iraqi forces have ousted IS insurgents from all districts of eastern Mosul they were tasked with recapturing, their commanding...

Davos (Switzerland): Iran and Saudi Arabia should be able to work together to help end conflicts in Syria and Yemen, after successfully cooperating over...

Shumen (Bulgaria): Iran's first two women volleyball players to compete outside the country joined Bulgarian club Shumen this month, a move which has...

Cairo: Egypt has added one of the country's most renowned athletes, retired football star Mohamed Aboutrika, to a terror list for alleged ties to the...

Al Rai (Syria): Sifting through ripped up textbooks and writing on broken whiteboards, Syrian children returned this week to a dilapidated small-town school...