Middle East

Beirut: Convoys of buses arrived on Monday to transfer thousands of Syrian militants and refugees from Lebanon's border region into rebel territory in...

Beirut: Nearly 90,000 Iranians are expected to attend the Haj this year, and were due to start arriving on Sunday, after Tehran boycotted the pilgrimage...

Beirut: About 8,000 people have registered to leave the Lebanese border region near Arsal for a rebel-held area of Syria as part of a local ceasefire...

Rabat: Morocco's King Mohammed VI has pardoned dozens of people arrested in recent protests in a northern region and blamed the failure of local...

Aleppo: On the terrace of the Baron Hotel in Aleppo, the owner's widow, Roubina Tashjian, sorted through old photographs of its happier past in a more...

Washington: The United States imposed sanctions on Friday on six subsidiaries of a company key to Iran's ballistic missile programme, citing continued...

Misrata (Libya): Libya forces allied with UN-backed government who last year defeated IS in Sirte are increasing patrols to stop the militants regrouping...

Rome: Libya's Tripoli-based government has invited Italian war ships into its territorial waters to support the fight against human trafficking, Italian...